Imperial Brands

British tobacco company
Organization business Q1471161
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Imperial Brands

Summary

Imperial Brands is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,349 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Imperial Brands is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Imperial Brands is in the country of US[4].
  • Imperial Brands's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Imperial Brands's instance of is recorded as enterprise[6].
  • Imperial Brands's instance of is recorded as public company[7].
  • Imperial Brands followed W.D. & H.O. Wills[8].
  • Imperial Brands followed Ardath Tobacco Company[9].
  • Imperial Brands's headquarters location is recorded as Bristol[10].
  • Imperial Brands's child organization or unit is recorded as Altadis[11].
  • Imperial Brands's child organization or unit is recorded as Imperial Brands CR[12].
  • Imperial Brands's child organization or unit is recorded as United Tobacco Companies (South)[13].
  • Imperial Brands's child organization or unit is recorded as British Tobacco Company (Australia)[14].
  • Imperial Brands is part of FTSE 100 Index[15].
  • Imperial Brands's Commons category is recorded as Imperial Tobacco Group[16].
  • Imperial Brands's stock exchange is recorded as London Stock Exchange[17].
  • Imperial Brands's industry is recorded as tobacco industry[18].
  • Imperial Brands's industry is recorded as tobacco industry[19].
  • Imperial Brands's industry is recorded as food and tobacco industry[20].
  • Imperial Brands's chairperson is recorded as Thérèse Esperdy[21].
  • October 1, 1996 marks the founding of Imperial Brands[22].
  • Imperial Brands's official website is recorded as https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/index.html[23].
  • Imperial Brands's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Imperial Brands[24].
  • Imperial Brands's product or material produced is recorded as cigarette[25].
  • Imperial Brands's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+35300'}[26].
  • Imperial Brands's floruit is recorded as January 1, 1945[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300PUBCRLBPB2UF68[28]

  • Registered legal name: Imperial Brands, Inc.[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[34]

  • LEI first registered: 2015-04-29[35]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[36]

  • LEI next renewal: 2017-03-28[37]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[38]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[39]

  • Authority entity ID: 4253622[40]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[41]

Body

Founding

October 1, 1996 marks the founding of Imperial Brands[22].

Identity

Imperial Brands is part of FTSE 100 Index[15]. Predecessors include W.D. & H.O. Wills[8] and Ardath Tobacco Company[9].

Leadership

Imperial Brands's chairperson is recorded as Thérèse Esperdy[21].

Operations

Imperial Brands's headquarters location is recorded as Bristol[10]. Subsidiaries include Altadis[11], a business[42], in Spain[43], founded in 1636[44], headquartered in Madrid[45]; Imperial Brands CR[12], a business[46], in Czech Republic[47], founded in 1991[48], headquartered in Prague[49]; United Tobacco Companies (South)[13]; and British Tobacco Company (Australia)[14].

Industry

Industries include tobacco industry[18] and food and tobacco industry[20].

Ownership

Imperial Brands's stock exchange is recorded as London Stock Exchange[17]. Its product or material produced is recorded as cigarette[25].

Why It Matters

Imperial Brands ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,349 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . lobbyfacts.eu. Retrieved . lobbyfacts.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . imperialbrandsplc.com. imperialbrandsplc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . collectiegelderland.nl. Retrieved . collectiegelderland.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [44] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [48] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [49] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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