Category:Tobacco Companies

From Eurêka

Contents 1 Tobacco Industry 2 Tobacco Firms 3 Philip Morris 4 British American Tobacco

Tobacco Industry

• See also Anti-Smoking

• See also Nicotine Dependency

Tobacco industry All those with a vested interest in maintaining the production of tobacco for smoking, including farmers, manufacturers, and store keepers.

Industrialized tobacco industry Pioneered in the US by Richard J. Reynolds and James B. Duke toward the end of 19th cent.

Tobacco industry consolidation Process of coalescing the world’s largest tobacco concerns in two or three companies, began with BAT/Rothmans merger, January 1999.

Tobacco lobby Groups who pressure legislators on behalf of the tobacco industry.

Tobacco Firms

Altadis French-Spanish group.

American Tobacco Company Consolidation of the tobacco industry that was found in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and was broken up 1911.

Gallacher Group PLC UK’s largest tobacco company, spun off from US conglomerate Fortune Brands.

1. Berkeley Superkings Cigarette brand.
2. Mayfair Cigarette brand.
3. Silk Cut Cigarette brand.
4. Sovereign Cigarette brand.
5. Gallacher/Austria Tabak British company takes over one of the last remaining national tobacco businesses in Europe for $1.8 billion, making Gallacher the 4th-largest tobacco firm in Europe, 22 June 2001.
   1. Austria Tabak Founded as the tobacco supplier to the Austro-Hungarian empire, 1784.

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC Headquartered in Bristol in west of England.

1. Embassy Cigarette brand.
2. John Player Special Cigarette brand.
3. Lambert & Butler Cigarette brand.
4. Regal Cigarette brand.
5. Superkings Cigarette brand.
6. Imperial Tobacco/Rizla cigarette papers Acquired.
7. Imperial Tobacco/Tobaccor Acquired African cigarette maker.
8. Imperial Tobacco/Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken Acquires Hamburg-based German company for $4.58 billion, giving it a presence in Eastern Europe, Russia and Asian markets, 7 March 2002.

Japan Tobacco World’s 3rd-largest tobacco company, after Philip Morris and BAT (2002), a state monopoly until 1985.

1. Mild Seven Flagship brand, with 90 others.
2. Liggett & Myers Spin-off from the American Tobacco Company.

Loews Corp.

1. Lorillard Tobacco Company Based in Greensboro, N. Carolina.
   1. Kent Cigarette brand.
   2. Newport Cigarette brand.
   3. Old Gold Cigarette brand.

RJR Nabisco Holdings Inc. World’s 4th-largest tobacco company, owner of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

1. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. Unit of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., spin-off from the American Tobacco Company.
   1. Best Value Cigarette brand.
   2. Doral Cigarette brand.
   3. Monarch Cigarette brand.
   4. Salem Cigarette brand.
   5. Winston Cigarette brand.
   6. Camel (slang, Hump) Turkish cigarette that became an American tobacco brand cigarette, part of popular Orientalism.
   7. Old Joe Camel cigarette camel brand, 1946.
   8. Joe Camel Symbol created by British artist for a French advertising campaign, 1974. It was first used by the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company in the US, in a campaign to celebrate Camel brands 75th anniversary, 1987.

• See also Joe Camel case

Star Scientific Inc. Small cigarette maker with patent for tobacco-curing technology that lowers levels of cancer-causing nitrosamines, based in Chester, VA.

Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor State monopoly formerly the monopoly bureau, privatized with IPO 2005.

1. Long Life Flagship brand established 1959.

Vector Group Ltd.

1. Liggate Group Unit of Vector Group that commands 2% of US market.

Philip Morris

Philip Morris World’s largest tobacco company with c. 15% of that market.

• See also Kraft Foods

• See also Kraft/Nabisco

• See also Miller Brewing Company

Philip Morris/Miller Brewing Co. Acquired 1970.

Philip Morris/Massalin Particulares US company acquires Argentina’s biggest cigarette maker, 19 May 2001.

Bond Street Cigarette brand.

Chesterfield Cigarette brand.

L & M Cigarette brand.

Lark Cigarette brand.

Merit Cigarette brand.

Parliament Cigarette brand.

Philip Morris Cigarette brand.

Virginia Slims Cigarette brand aimed directly at women.

British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco PLC (BAT) World’s 2nd-largest tobacco company that sells c. 240 brands around the world.

1. Brown & Williamson BAT’s American subsidiary in Louisville, Kentucky.
   1. Lucky Strike Cigarette brand.
   2. Benson & Hedges Cigarette brand.
   3. Kent Cigarette brand.
   4. Kool Cigarette brand.
   5. Viceroy Cigarette brand.
2. BAT/Rothmans BAT purchases Rothmans International for c. $7.5 billion, 11 January 1999.
   1. Rothmans International Fourth-largest tobacco company based in The Netherlands, owned by Richemont AG, a financial holding company in Switzerland and the Rembrandt Group of South Africa.
   2. Rothmans Cigarette brand.
   3. Dunhill Cigarette brand.
   4. Peter Stuyvesant Cigarette brand.

Note Although BAT is a massive global company and remains in London, in the UK market it lies behind the Gallacher Group and Imperial Tobacco.