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Latest press releases

• 17 August 2017 | News Release British American Tobacco p.l.c. recommends stockholders reject mini-tender offer by TRC Capital Corporation
• 1 August 2017 | News Release Update on Ongoing Investigation into Misconduct Allegations
• 27 July 2016 | News Release Half-year report to 30 June 2017

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External articles and reports

• 11 May 2017
  "There’s been a transformation in R&D in this company over the last 5 years"
  Business Insider UK interview with Group Scientific and R&D Director, Dr David O’Reilly.
• 16 March 2017
  BAT says strong demand for 'glo' smokeless tobacco
  Reuters Business News
• 06 February 2017
  EY report on the “rapidly evolving vapour market” (research commissioned by BAT).
  EY website

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British American Tobacco (BAT) is a global tobacco and nicotine products company. Its brands are sold in more than 200 markets and it employs around 55,000 people worldwide. BAT’s cigarettes are chosen by around one in eight of the world's one billion adult smokers and its five Global Drive Brands are Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Rothmans. Alongside its traditional tobacco business, BAT is developing a portfolio of innovative next generation tobacco and nicotine products to offer consumers a choice of potentially less risky alternatives to conventional cigarettes. BAT is market leader in over 55 countries and in 2016 the Group generated reported revenue of £14.75 billion and adjusted profit of £5.48 billion.

In July 2017, British American Tobacco p.l.c. acquired the remaining 57.8% of Reynolds American Inc. that BAT did not already own, creating a stronger, global tobacco and Next Generation Products company.

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