British American Tobacco p.l.c.
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British American Tobacco p.l.c. Company Profile

When people pick up smoking, British American Tobacco (BAT) picks up steam. BAT is the world's second-largest publicly-traded tobacco company by market share (after Philip Morris International). The company rolls more than 700 billion cigarettes a year, sold in 180 countries. BAT's four global cigarette brands -- Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, and Pall Mall -- account for more than a third of group sales. BAT also produces loose tobacco and regional cigarette brands, giving it a portfolio of more than 200 brands overall. It owns 42% of Reynolds American, the #2 US cigarette maker created by the merger of BAT's Brown & Williamson unit with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. BAT holds about 30% of India's ITC, as well.