British American Tobacco (BAT)
Contents
Background
Some sections of this page was adopted from the British American Tobacco (BAT) page of TobaccoTactics.org. British American Tobacco (BAT) was established in 1902 by merging the UK’s Imperial Tobacco and the US’s American Tobacco companies.[2] Headquartered in London, its business includes Australasia, Africa, Europe and America.[3][2]In its Combined Annual and ESG Report in 2022, BAT claimed it sold over 200 tobacco brands under 5 categories, vapour, tobacco heating products, modern oral products, traditional oral products and combustibles, in over 170 markets. [4] As of 2019, BAT had a 12% share in the global market.[5]
Affiliations
In 2017, BAT held international partnerships with three other tobacco companies;[6]
BAT also owned the following non-cigarette producing tobacco companies:
- CN Creative Ltd.- produces E-cigarettes and nicotine replacement therapy products
- Fiedler & Lundgren – produces snus
- Nicoventures Ltd – produces ‘regulatory-approved’ nicotine products
According to the BAT annual report 2022, BAT is associated with the following tobacco and cannabis companies.[4]
Tobacco companies
- VST Industries
- ITC Limited India [7]
- AYR Limited
- Kamaran Industry and Investment Company
- United Industries Company
Cannabis companies
In the same report, it is mentioned that CTBAT International is a joint venture of subsidiaries of China National Tobacco Corporation and BAT. CTBAT commenced its operation in August 2013, headquartered in Hong Kong.[8][4]
For details on other individuals and institutions affiliated to BAT, please visit the British American Tobacco (BAT) page of TobaccoTactics.org.
Partnerships
BAT features its partnership with McLaren in their website.[1] McLaren is a popular racing car team founded in 1963 and is based in the United Kingdom.[9]BAT announced their partnership with McLaren in February 2019 aiming to promote vapour products in the Formula One (F1) season which started on 17th March 2019.[10] Formula one is one of the premier forms of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars. British American Racing team was formerly owned by the BAT and it was taken out in 2006 with the ban on tobacco advertising in sports.[11]Media reported the expansion of BAT partnership in becoming the official partner for the Indy Car series in 2020. [12][13]
Activities Related to Tobacco and Tobacco Control
Globally BAT is known for;[14]
- using controversial strategies to market their products to women and girls
- targeting youth in marketing their products
- intimidating governments with litigation or threat of litigation against tobacco control activities
- fabricating support through front groups to influence tobacco related policies
- influencing policies through corporate social responsibility initiatives
- discrediting science on tobacco related harm
- involvement in tobacco smuggling[15]
BAT in Sri Lanka
The Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CTC), the company with the cigarette market monopoly in Sri Lanka, is a subsidiary of BAT. In 1904 BAT initiated its operations in Sri Lanka, or Ceylon, as the country was called at the time.[16] The company was listed in the Colombo Stock Exchange in 1952, of which 84.13% of shares was owned by BAT in 2022.[17][18]
BAT influences CTC and its activities via two mechanisms;
- Governance – via BAT Executive Directors in the CTC governing Board.[17]
- Networking – Non Sri Lankan BAT employees serves in the CTC Board of Directors and Executive Committee.[17] CTC employees are given employment in other BAT subsidiaries as a measure of “talent development” [19] According to the CTC officials, “Sri Lanka is considered as a centre for management excellence in the BAT”.[20]
For further details on BAT activities in Sri Lanka please see the pages Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CTC) and Tobacco Industry Country Profile – Sri Lanka.
Tobacco Unmasked Resources
Relevant Link
British American Tobacco's website: [1]
The local language translations
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 British American Tobacco. Website, 2024, accessed February 2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 British American Tobacco, Our History: A time-line, undated, accessed February 2017
- ↑ British American Tobacco, Website, undated, accessed February 2017
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 British American Tobacco, Combined Annual and ESG Report 2022, 2023, accessed February 2024
- ↑ E Trenda. Global cigarette market share as of 2019, by company, Statista, 8 August 2023, accessed February 20224
- ↑ British American Tobacco, British American Tobacco Annual Report 2015, 2017, accessed March 2017
- ↑ S Malviya & W Mukherjee. Diluting stake in ITC Complex, says its largest shareholder, The Economic Times, 16 December 2023, accessed February 2024
- ↑ CTBAT International. Background, 2015, accessed February 2024
- ↑ McLaren. Official website, undated, accessed February 2024
- ↑ S Carp. British American Tobacco returns to Formula One with McLaren, 12 February 2019, accessed February 2024
- ↑ S Mitchell. Former BAR team owner BAT back into Formula 1 with McLaren deal, 11 February 2019, accessed February 2024
- ↑ K Collantine. McLaren to expand British American Tobacco deal in 2020, 29 November 2019, accessed December 2019
- ↑ E Dixon. Report: McLaren set for British American Tobacco sponsorship expansion, 28 November 2019, accessed December 2019
- ↑ TobaccoTactics.org. British American Tobacco (BAT), May 2017, accessed May 2017
- ↑ TobaccoTactics.org. BAT Involvement in Tobacco Smuggling, 17 March 2016, accessed May 2017
- ↑ KE Hendrickson. The Encyclopaedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History, Volume 3, 2015
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC. Annual Report 2022, 2023, accessed February 2024
- ↑ Colombo Stock Exchange. Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC Opens Trading at CSE, 2016, accessed May 2017
- ↑ The Island. CTC reinvigorates commitment to talent development, 24 March 2016, accessed May 2017
- ↑ Sunday Times. Ceylon Tobacco: Growing in a controversial market, 18 July 2004, accessed May 2017
