11 Facts About British-American Tobacco

1.

British American British-American Tobacco plc is a British multinational company that manufactures and sells cigarettes, tobacco and other nicotine products.

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2.

British-American Tobacco, established in 1902, is headquartered in London, England.

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3.

Imperial British-American Tobacco gradually reduced its shareholding, but it was not until 1980 that it divested its remaining interests in the company.

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4.

British-American Tobacco's assets were seized by the Japanese in 1941 following their 1937 invasion.

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5.

On 11 June 2006, R J Reynolds Tobacco Company announced that it would manufacture Camel brand snus in Sweden in partnership with British American Tobacco; the product would be test-marketed in Portland, Oregon and Austin, Texas by the end of the month.

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6.

Around 1996 British American British-American Tobacco merged its financial operations into a single operating unit, British American Financial Services .

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7.

British American British-American Tobacco Ghana Limited is a public limited company operated by British American in Ghana.

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8.

British-American Tobacco is listed on the stock index of the Ghana Stock Exchange, the GSE All-Share Index.

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9.

In 1996, an internal document from British American British-American Tobacco warned that, because of the spread of "extremist views" from fundamentalists in countries such as Afghanistan, the industry would have to "prepare to fight a hurricane".

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10.

British American British-American Tobacco was declared the winner of the 2008 Roger Award, the award for the worst transnational corporation operating in New Zealand.

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11.

One document showed that in Uganda BAT stated that the British-American Tobacco Control Act flew in the face of the country's constitution.

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