Imperial Brands

By: Alternix

Company Overview and Global Presence

Imperial Brands plc is a British multinational tobacco company.
It is headquartered in London and Bristol, England.
The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Imperial Brands is the world's fourth-largest international cigarette company.
It is also the largest producer of fine-cut tobacco and tobacco papers.
Imperial Brands sold 220.9 billion stick equivalents globally in 2022.
The company has 30 factories worldwide.
Its products are sold in around 120 countries.
Some of its well-known brands include Davidoff, West, Golden Virginia, Drum, and Rizla.
Imperial Brands has expanded its product range to include alternative nicotine products such as blu vape, Pulze, iD heated tobacco system, Zone X, and Skruf nicotine pouches.

The Imperial Tobacco Company was created in 1901 through the amalgamation of 13 British tobacco and cigarette companies.
The company's first chairman was William Henry Wills.
In 1902, Imperial Tobacco and the American Tobacco Company formed a joint venture called British-American Tobacco Company Ltd.
Imperial Tobacco established its own leaf-buying organization in the United States.
In 1973, the company changed its name to Imperial Group and formed a subsidiary named Imperial Tobacco Limited.
In 2003, Imperial Brands acquired Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH, adding brands like Davidoff and West to its portfolio.
In 2007, the company entered the US tobacco market with the acquisition of Commonwealth Brands Inc.
In 2008, Imperial Brands acquired Altadis, which included brands like Fortuna and Gauloises Blondes.
The company faced factory closures, including the closure of the Horizon factory in Nottingham in 2014.
In 2016, Imperial Brands changed its name to distance itself from tobacco.

In 2018, Imperial Brands Ventures took a stake in Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies to develop cannabis-based medicines.
In November 2019, Thérèse Esperdy became the company's new chairman.
In July 2020, Stefan Bomhard became the chief executive of Imperial Brands.
The company continues to expand its product offerings and diversify its business.
Imperial Brands opened a new global headquarters in Bristol in 2013.

W. D. & H. O. Wills Limited and John Player & Sons were involved in setting up Imperial Tobacco.
Bristol Archives holds extensive records of W D & H O Wills and Imperial Tobacco.
Nottinghamshire Archives hold the John Player and Sons collections.
The archives at Liverpool Central Library hold records of the Ogden Branch.
The Nottingham factory and the French factory in Nantes closed in 2016.
Production was moved to Eastern Europe.

In May 2022, The Times reported that the company had lobbied politicians in Scotland.
Ivan McKee, the trade minister, met with executives from Imperial Brands twice in 2018.
Imperial Tobacco owns various products in Australia, including Camel, More, and Mevius.
Lambert & Butler is known as L&B or Great & British in some countries.
Imperial Tobacco is associated with British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco.
Fine-cut tobacco and rolling paper are also part of their product range.
Snus tobacco is another product offered by Imperial Tobacco.

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Glossary	https://www.alternix.com/blogs/glossary-of-terms/imperial-brands
Wikipedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Brands
Wikidata	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1471161
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