Japan Tobacco

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Japan Tobacco Inc.

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legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
ISIN JP3726800000
founding April 1, 1985
Seat Minato , Tokyo , JapanJapanJapan 
management Mitsuomi Koizumi ( President and CEO )
Number of employees 44,667 (December 31, 2016)
sales 2.434 trillion Yen (2014)
Branch Tobacco, food, pharmacy
Website www.jt.com

Japan Tobacco Inc. ( Japanese 日本 た ば こ 産業 株式会社 , Nihon Tabako Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha ) is an international Japanese tobacco , food and pharmaceutical company . The Tokyo- based group of companies, which is listed in the Nikkei 225 , employs a total of almost 51,000 people. In fiscal 2014, Japan Tobacco generated sales of 23.003 billion US dollars . The actual main activity of the group is the tobacco business. Japan Tobacco is the world's third largest cigarette manufacturer, the international tobacco business from the Switzerland -based subsidiary JT International SA is executed. The four main brands include Winston , Mevius, American Spirit and Camel .

Headquarters in Tokyo

history

Japan Tobacco Inc. was founded in 1985, but its roots go back to the tobacco monopoly established in Japan in 1898 and administered by the Ministry of Finance . This resulted in the 1949 Nippon Sembai Kōsha ( 日本 専 売 engl, English Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corp. ). In 1977 the Mild Seven brand was introduced. After Japan Tobacco Inc. was founded, the company was partially privatized. The Japanese Ministry of Finance still holds a 33.4% stake in Japan Tobacco (as of March 2013).

In 1999 Japan Tobacco took over the non-US tobacco activities of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company with Geneva- based RJ Reynolds Tobacco International SA . JT International SA , founded in the same year, emerged from this. The Group's entire international tobacco business outside of Japan was brought together in this. In April 2007 Japan Tobacco took over the British Gallaher Group . In September 2015, Japan Tobacco announced the purchase of the brand Natural American Spirit and the associated international sales companies outside the United States at a cost of 5 billion US dollars of Reynolds American Inc. In the same year was Japan Tobacco is known to run out of drinks production. Japan Tobacco has been producing beverages with JT Beverage Products since 1988.

Web links

Commons : Japan Tobacco  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Company Overview. Japan Tobacco, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Japan Tobacco Inc. Annual Report FY2014. (PDF; 5.5 MB) (No longer available online.) Japan Tobacco, archived from the original on August 30, 2017 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ JT International SA - About JTI ( Memento of February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Martin Fritz: Japan Tobacco: This is how Japan's tobacco giant wants to conquer the e-cigarette business. In: WiWo.de. May 9, 2017, accessed March 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Japan Tobacco - Annual Report 2013 (subsection “Shareholder Information”) ( Memento from August 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  6. ^ Reynolds American announces sale of Natural American Spirit international businesses to JT Group , at www.reynoldsamerican.com , accessed September 29, 2015.
  7. ↑ Notice of Withdrawal from the Manufacture and Sale of JT Beverage Products , on www.jt.com ( Memento of September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 29, 2015.