Company type | subsidiary |
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Industry | Tobacco |
Founded | 1999 |
Headquarters | 2-1, Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan Geneva, Switzerland |
Key people | Eddy Pirard President and CEO Koji Shimayoshi Deputy CEO and Executive Vice President Business Development and Corporate Strategy |
Products | Cigarettes, vaping products, roll-your-own tobacco, snus, pipe tobacco, cigars[1] |
Owner | Japan Tobacco |
Number of employees | 45,000 (2019)[2] |
Website | www.jti.com |
JTI - Japan Tobacco International is the international tobacco division of Japan Tobacco (Global Fortune 500),[3] one of the three largest international Big Tobacco product manufacturers. The holding company is JT International SA and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and Geneva, Switzerland, and sells its brands in 120 countries.
As of 2018, JTI employed around 40,000 people around the world at 400 offices, 27 factories, five research and development centers, and five tobacco-processing facilities.[4]
Eddy Pirard is the president and CEO, and Koji Shimayoshi is the deputy CEO and executive vice president for business development and corporate strategy.[5]