Tobacco Products

Company History

British American Tobacco Plc Business Information, Profile, and History

Windsor House 50 Victoria Street London SW1H 0NL United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Our companies are committed to providing consumers with pleasure through excellent products, and to demonstrating that we are meeting our commercial goals in ways that are consistent with reasonable societal expectations of a responsible tobacco group in the 21st century. British American Tobacco PLC is the seco…

17 minute read

Brown Williamson Tobacco Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

200 Brown & Williamson Tower 401 South Fourth Street Louisville, Kentucky 40202 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To be the world's number one tobacco group and to perform within the top tier of global companies in terms of sustainable, profitable growth over the long term. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco plc, is the third largest manufacturer of cigare…

16 minute read

Djarum Pt Business Information, Profile, and History

Jl Aipda K S Tubun 2C/57 Jakarta Indonesia Company Perspectives: Our Mission: To satisfy the global smoker's needs. Djarum PT is one of Indonesia's top three producers of "kretek" cigarettes, the dominant form of tobacco in a country which ranks in the top ten among countries with the highest rates of smokers. Kretek cigarettes contain locally grown tobaccos blended with cloves--which typically r…

13 minute read

Gallaher Group Plc Business Information, Profile, and History

Members Hill Brooklands Road Weybridge Surrey KT13 OQU United Kingdom Company Perspectives: The Group's strategy is to maintain and develop strong market positions, capitalising on its proven ability to build brand equity. In the key UK cigarette market, Gallaher aims to defend vigorously its leading position in the high margin premium sector and to continue to increase its share of the growing l…

17 minute read

General Cigar Holdings, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

387 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10016-8899 United States Company Perspectives: General Cigar Company is the largest manufacturer and marketer of premium, imported, hand-made or hand-rolled cigars--those made with long filler and all natural tobacco leaf. Through another subsidiary, Culbro Tobacco, it grows, cures, ages and processes the majority of the Connecticut Shade tobacco in the wo…

19 minute read

House Of Prince A/S Business Information, Profile, and History

Tobaksvejen 4 Soborg Denmark Company Perspectives House of Prince (HoP) is ST's international cigarette company with sales in more than 40 countries. To a Dane, a Norwegian or a Swede, HoP is first and foremost associated with the cigarette Prince--so firmly rooted in Scandinavian consciousness that smokers in these three countries regard it as their nationally preferred cigarette brand. But HoP …

14 minute read

Imperial Tobacco Group Plc Business Information, Profile, and History

P.O. Box 244 Upton Road Bristol BS99 7UJ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Imperial Tobacco's strategy is based on five key objectives: to focus on tobacco and tobacco-related products, to strengthen our market position in the United Kingdom, to extend our international presence through both organic growth and acquisitions, to pursue opportunities for profitable international development in se…

20 minute read

Japan Tobacco Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

2-1, Toranomon 2-chome Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8422 Japan Company Perspectives: By circulating and expanding funds ("cash flow") generated by high-quality business activities, JT is committed to fulfill--to the best of its ability and in a fair and balanced manner--its responsibilities to its shareholders, customers, employees, and society and to ensure their satisfaction with JT's performance. Japan…

14 minute read

Japan Tobacco Incorporated Business Information, Profile, and History

12-62 Higashi Shinagawa 4-chome, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 140 Japan The government-owned monopoly Japan Tobacco Incorporated (Japan Tobacco) manufactures tobacco and salt and is one of the largest tobacco companies in the world by sales volume. It also has one of the highest capitalizations of any company in Japan, with paid-in capital of ¥100 billion. In April 1985 the company was privatized as a joi…

10 minute read

North Atlantic Trading Company Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

257 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7304 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Zig-Zag: Quality you can trust. North Atlantic Trading Company Inc. is a New York City-based holding company for several subsidiaries involved in the tobacco industry. National Tobacco Company, L.P. is the third largest loose-leaf chewing tobacco company in the United States. Its most famous brand is Beech-Nut. North…

13 minute read

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

P.O. Box 2866 Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27102-2811 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: R.J. Reynolds' operations are guided by three key goals that we seek to accomplish while acting always in a responsible and ethical manner: We will continually strive to meet the preferences of adult smokers better than our competitors by developing, manufacturing and marketing distinctive, high quality tobacco pr…

18 minute read

Taiwan Tobacco Liquor Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

No. 4, Nanchang Road, Section 1 Taipei Taiwan Company Perspectives: Business Mission: To create a dignified working environment for emplo yees; To protect the health of the consumption of tobacco and liquor; To insist on innovation, assertiveness, responsibility, honesty and faith. Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor Corporation (TTL) is Taiwan's leading man ufacturer and distributor of beer, wine, and tobac…

27 minute read

Ust Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History

100 West Putnam Avenue Greenwich, Connecticut 06830 U.S.A. UST Inc., the top dog in the only part of the U.S. tobacco market experiencing growth, is a holding company for four subsidiaries: United States Smokeless Tobacco Company, International Wine & Spirits Ltd., United States Tobacco Manufacturing Ltd., and United States Smokeless Tobacco Brands. United States Smokeless Tobacco Company is the …

19 minute read

Vector Group Ltd. Business Information, Profile, and History

100 S.E. Second Street 32nd Floor Miami, Florida 33131 U.S.A. Known through 1999 as the Brooke Group Ltd., Vector Group Ltd. is a holding company for a variety of companies, the most important being the Liggett Group Inc., the successor of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. Liggett is the fifth largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the United States, producing the branded cigarette Eve, as well…

15 minute read