Company type | Private limited company UK trading subsidiary of Japan Tobacco International |
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Industry | Tobacco |
Predecessor | Austria Tabak |
Founded | 1857 |
Headquarters | Weybridge, Surrey, England |
Key people | John Gildersleeve (Chairman) Nigel Northridge (CEO) |
Products | Cigarettes, Tobacco |
Revenue | £8,401 million (2006) |
£660 million (2006) | |
£408 million (2006) | |
Parent | Japan Tobacco[1] |
Gallaher Group was a United Kingdom-based multinational tobacco company which traded on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, prior to its acquisition by American Tobacco in 1974. In April 2007, it was acquired by Japan Tobacco. Japan Tobacco trades in the United Kingdom as Gallaher Ltd.