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{{Nihongo|'Japan Tobacco Inc.'|日本たばこ産業株式会社|Nihon Tabako Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha|extra=, 'JT' for short, is a cigarette manufacturing company. It is part of the Nikkei 225 index.

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History

Market

Brands

Flagship brands

Other brands

Notes

See also

External link

History

The company traces its origins to 1898. Incorporated in 1949 as the 'Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation', Japan Tobacco was a state monopoly until 1985, when it became a public company. It was two-thirds owned by the Japanese Ministry of Finance until June 2004, and the Japanese government share is presently 50%. 'JT International (JTI)', acquired in 1999 from R.J. Reynolds, is an operating division of Japan Tobacco Inc., handling the international production, marketing and sales of the group's cigarette brands. It sells Camel, Salem, and Winston brands outside the USA.
Japan Tobacco also operates in foods, pharmaceuticals, agribusiness, engineering, and real estate. Japan Tobacco is expected to complete the largest ever foreign takeover in Japanese history through acquisition of Gallaher Group plc in April 2007.

Market

Japan Tobacco controls 66.4% of the cigarette market in Japan and will seek more takeovers from 2009 to build on the 7.5 billion pound (USD 15 billion) purchase of Gallaher Group Plc.
President Hiroshi Kimura said in an interview on 29 August 2007 that further acquisitions “would be realistic from 2009”. The integration of Gallaher Group, the British maker of Benson & Hedges cigarettes purchased in April, will be completed in two years, he said.
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Brands

Flagship brands

★ Camel

★ Mild Seven

★ Salem

★ Winston

Other brands

★ Amadis ★ Arsenal ★ Aspen ★ Belomorkanal ★ Cabin ★ Caster ★ Club ★ Contessa ★ Crescent & Star ★ Doral

★ Dorchester ★ Embassy ★ Export A ★ Frontier ★ Genghis Khan ★ Gold Coast ★ Hi-Lite ★ Hope ★ Islands ★ Kosmos ★ Luch

★ Lviv ★ MacDonald ★ Magna ★ Mercedes ★ Mi-Ne ★ Monte Carlo ★ More ★ Nasha Prima ★ Nevskie ★ North Star

★ Now ★ Overstolz ★ Peace ★ Peter 1 ★ Premier ★ Prima ★ Russian Style ★ Seven Stars ★ Slavia ★ Sportsman

★ St. Michel ★ Sweet Menthol ★ Vantage ★ Wave ★ Winchester ★ Wings ★ YSL

Notes

1. Japan Tobacco website, 2006. "JT holds approximately two-thirds of the domestic cigarette market share, which is built on its best-selling brands: Mild Seven, Cabin, Caster, Seven Stars, Peace, Camel, and Salem." [1]
2. Hoover's business report, 2006, on Japan Tobacco Inc. "Japan Tobacco has plenty to puff about. The company controls more than 70% of the cigarette market in a country where about half of the male population smokes."

See also

★ Tobacco industry

★ JT Marvelous

External link

★ Japan Tobacco official website
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★ ''Annual Report 2006''. Japan Tobacco Inc. March 31, 2006.