Japan Tobacco Inc.
Type	Public KK (TYO: 2914 )
Founded	1985
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Yoji Wakui, Chairman Hiroshi Kimura, President & CEO Pierre de Labouchere, CEO of JT International SA
Industry	Tobacco, Pharmaceuticals, Food
Products	See below
Revenue	¥4,637.657 billion JPY (2005)
Net income	¥201.542 billion JPY (2005)
Employees	31,476 (2005)
Slogan	The Delight Factory
Website	www.jti.co.jp

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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. Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... In economics, government monopoly is a form of coercive monopoly, in which a government agency is the sole provider of a particular good or service and competition is prohibited by law. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Ministry of Finance (財務省; Zaimu-sho) is one of ministries of the Japanese government. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: June 2004 in sports Deaths in June • 28 Anthony Buckeridge • 26 Naomi Shemer • 26 Yash Johar • 22 Bob Bemer • 22 Thomas Gold • 22 Francisco Ortiz Franco • 16 Thanom Kittikachorn • 10 Ray Charles • 5 Ronald Reagan... This article is about the year. ... The RJR Headquarters building (back left) in Winston Salem, NC was built prior to the Empire State Building, which was designed by the same architect. ... Camel is a brand of cigarettes introduced by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (RJR) in 1913. ... Salem is brand of cigarettes introduced in 1956 by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company as the first filter-tipped menthol cigarette. ... Winston is a name deriving from the old saxon / Norse words wynn meaning good or beautiful and stonn meaning town or place. ...

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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

The Japan Tobacco headquarters building in Tokyo

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Flagship brands

• Camel
• Mild Seven
• Salem
• Winston

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Other brands

Mild Seven

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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."

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See also

• Tobacco industry
• JT Marvelous

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External link

• Japan Tobacco official website (English)

Company announcement:

• Annual Report 2006. Japan Tobacco Inc. March 31, 2006.