Group at a glance

Overview

Imperial Tobacco products are available in over 160 countries worldwide. Our geographic diversity and versatile multi-product portfolio provides business resilience and a strong platform for future growth.

Brands

• Our leading international super premium cigarette brand Davidoff has a strong and growing presence in mature and emerging markets, including the European Union, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
• Gauloises Blondes is another key international cigarette brand which has developed a position of strength in the Middle East.
• The West cigarette brand has a major position in a number of European markets and volumes are increasing in our Rest of the World region.
• Our value brand JPS has a growing presence in all regions it is sold, and our versatile cigarette portfolio also includes a number of important regional brands including Fortuna and Gitanes.
• Complementing our strong cigarette presence is our world leadership in fine cut tobacco, rolling papers and tubes with brands such as Golden Virginia, Drum and Rizla.
• We also have a world leading cigar position including a 50 per cent interest in Habanos, the exclusive worldwide distributor of premium Cuban cigar brands such as Cohiba and Montecristo.

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2009 financial performance

161.8p

Adjusted Earnings Per Share (pence)

73.0p

Full Year Dividend Per Share (pence)

£2,933m

Adjusted Profit from Operations (million)

Regions

We continue to build on our strong market shares in mature markets whilst increasing our share of growing emerging markets.

Our key growth regions are the European Union, USA, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East and Asia. In the EU our market leadership in the UK and Spain is supported by strong positions in Germany and France.

Manufacturing

Our 56 factories are focused on production quality, business simplification and cost optimisation. We continue to increase productivity and reduce our unit costs.

View our manufacturing locations

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22 Cigarette factories

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6 Other tobacco product and processing factories

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3Paper and tube factories