Imperial Brands

Imperial Brands PLC
legal form	Public Limited Company
ISIN	GB0004544929
founding	October 1996
Seat	Bristol , UK
management	Mark Williamson (Chairman); Alison Cooper ( CEO );
Number of employees	36,400
sales	25289000000 £ (28.3 billion euros )
Branch	Tobacco products
Website	www.imperialbrandsplc.com
	As of September 30, 2015

Logo until 2016

The Imperial Brands plc. (until 2016: Imperial Tobacco Group PLC ) is the fifth largest supplier in the international tobacco market after China National Tobacco , Philip Morris , British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco . The company is based in Bristol , Great Britain . The company employs over 36,000 people. In February 2016, the company was renamed Imperial Brands. On July 1, 2020, Stefan Bomhard will succeed Alison Cooper as the new CEO.

German subsidiaries are Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken , the third largest supplier in the German tobacco market (cigarette market share: 20%). In 2008, what was then Imperial Tobacco took over the Spanish trading company Logista Holdings . To this day, Logista is an independent company within the group and maintains its own stock exchange listing.

Products

Cigarettes

Prima (Eastern Europe)
MOON (CZ)
Paramount (CZ)
Bastos (Vietnam, Belgium)
Excellence (Africa)
Route 66 (Poland, France, Belgium)
Lambert & Butler (UK)
Richmond (UK)
Horizon (Australia, New Zealand, Austria)
Embassy No.1 (UK)
Shelf (UK)
Superkings (1983)
Windsor Blue (UK) (2006)
Gauloises
Gitanes
Fortuna (Spain)
Classic (Ukraine)

Other tobacco products

Drum ( rolling tobacco , formerly Douwe Egberts )
Golden Virginia (rolling tobacco)
Buccaneer whiskey (rolling tobacco)
Rizla (cigarette paper)
Cañuma (cigarette paper)
Kingsgard (cigarette paper)
John Player Special
John Player King Size
De Witte Os Geurige Primary Tobacco
Kentuck Prime Tobacco
Van Nelle

Cigarette brands in Germany

Astor
Atika
Cabinet
Davidoff
duet
cornerstone
Harvest 23
Gauloises
Gitanes
JPS
Juno
L&B

No. 6th
Peter Stuyvesant
P&S
R1
R6
shelf
Reval
Roth-Handel
Salem
Superkings 100
west
Goldfield XXXL

Web links

Early documents and newspaper articles on Imperial Brands in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Board of Directors. (No longer available online.) Imperial Tobacco, archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; accessed on December 16, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Annual Report 2015 ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
^ Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: THE GLOBAL CIGARETTE INDUSTRY . ( tobaccofreekids.org [PDF; accessed March 3, 2020]).
^ Imperial Tobacco is rebranding to Imperial Brands , at www.cityam.com, accessed May 5, 2016
↑ Imperial Brands confirms Stefan Bomhard to take up CEO role in July, 27 Feb 2020 09:28 | Shares Magazine. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .

[IT_BOD-1] Board of Directors. (No longer available online.) Imperial Tobacco, archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; accessed on December 16, 2019 .

[ar2015-2] Annual Report 2015 ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: THE GLOBAL CIGARETTE INDUSTRY . ( tobaccofreekids.org [PDF; accessed March 3, 2020]).

[4] Imperial Tobacco is rebranding to Imperial Brands , at www.cityam.com, accessed May 5, 2016

[5] Imperial Brands confirms Stefan Bomhard to take up CEO role in July, 27 Feb 2020 09:28 | Shares Magazine. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .