60/100BBritish American Tobacco company profile
- CEO
- Tadeu Luiz Marroco
- Employees
- 47,797
- Headquarters
- Globe House, London, GL WC2R 2PG, GB
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Tobacco
- IPO date
- 14 Apr 1980
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US1104481072
Website:bat.com
About the company
British American Tobacco p.l.c. provides tobacco and nicotine products to consumers in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Canada, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Central Asia, Caucasus, and Africa. The company offers vapour products; heated products, which consists of a battery-powered device and a plant-based substance consumable that is heated; modern oral products, such as nicotine pouches; combustibles, including cigarette sticks and other tobacco stick products; traditional oral products, such as snus and moist snuff; and fine cut/roll-your-own tobacco products. It sells its products under the Vuse, glo, Velo, Grizzly, Kodiak, Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Rothmans, Newport, Natural American Spirit, and Camel Snus brands, as well as Vogue, Viceroy, Kool, Peter Stuyvesant, Craven A, and State Express 555 brands. The company distributes its products to retail outlets. British American Tobacco p.l.c. was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Employees
British American Tobacco had about 47,797 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 2.4% fewer than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns British American Tobacco
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 15.0% of British American Tobacco's shares on 30 June 2026, 950 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
Common questions about British American Tobacco
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