Who owns Davidoff?
Davidoff, a tobacco brand from the United Kingdom, is owned by Imperial Brands (the United Kingdom, LSE: IMB).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Imperial Brands PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Imperial Brands PLC reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Bristol
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Tobacco & nicotine › Tobacco products › Cigarettes
- Parent ticker
- LSE: IMB
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Davidoff
Davidoff is Imperial's premium international cigarette brand. Imperial Tobacco had licensed the Davidoff cigarette trademark from Tchibo Holding AG since acquiring Reemtsma in 2002, then bought the worldwide Davidoff cigarette trademark outright from Tchibo in 2006 for €540 million in cash. Imperial's FY2025 accounts carry Davidoff as an owned indefinite-life intangible asset with a carrying value of £472 million, tested annually for impairment rather than amortised. Oettinger Davidoff Group separately owns the Davidoff trademark for every other tobacco product — cigars, cigarillos and pipe tobacco — so the same name covers two different owners depending on the product.
Ownership timeline of Davidoff
- Current owner Imperial Brands [1] reported
Where Davidoff sits in Imperial Brands
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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See the full Imperial Brands brand portfolio (21) →
Other brands owned by Imperial Brands
Imperial Brands controls 21 brands on Brandtree, 20 of them in tobacco & nicotine.
Also in tobacco & nicotine
- Backwoods (1979)
- blu (2009)
- Champion
- Crowns (2011)
- Ducados
- Dutch Masters (1911)
- Fortuna
- Gauloises
- JPS
- Kool (1933)
- Lambert & Butler
- Paramount
- Parker & Simpson
- Pulze
- Riverstone
- Skruf (2003)
- West
- Winston (United States) (1954)
Other brands in cigarettes, and who owns them
Imperial Brands has more brands in cigarettes on Brandtree than any other owner: 11 of 81.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| GG Mild | Gudang Garam | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Camel (United States) | British American Tobacco | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| American Legend | Karelia | 🇬🇷 Greece |
| Boston (Eastern cigarettes) | Eastern Company | 🇪🇬 Egypt |
| Djarum 76 | Djarum | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Capstan | ITC | 🇮🇳 India |
| Camel | Japan Tobacco | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| L&M (United States) | Altria | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Imperial Brands
Imperial Brands is a publicly listed company headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, founded in 1901. Brandtree records 21 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: IMB.
Imperial Brands is a British tobacco and next-generation-products group formed in 1901 as the Imperial Tobacco Company through the merger of thirteen British cigarette and tobacco manufacturers responding to American Tobacco Company's entry into the UK market. It describes itself in its FY2025 annual report as "a stronger challenger business" built on a deliberately focused portfolio of combustible, heated tobacco, vapour and modern oral nicotine brands sold across five priority combustible markets — the USA, Germany, the UK, Spain and Australia — plus growth clusters in Africa, the Middle East, Turkey and Central & Eastern Europe. Its FY2025 revenue-generating combustible categories are cigarettes, fine cut tobacco and mass market cigars; premium cigars were exited in 2020.
Imperial Brands: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇬🇧 Davidoff and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 571 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 297 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Davidoff is not one of them.
- Auld Kendal — Gawith Hoggarth 🇬🇧
- Dunhill — British American Tobacco 🇬🇧
- Nordic Spirit — Japan Tobacco 🇯🇵
- A.1. — Kraft Heinz 🇺🇸
- ASOS Design — ASOS 🇬🇧
- AVA — Pets at Home 🇬🇧
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Davidoff?
The parent company of Davidoff is Imperial Brands, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Davidoff owned by Oettinger Davidoff?
No. Davidoff is owned by Imperial Brands, not Oettinger Davidoff.
Is Davidoff British?
Yes. Davidoff originated in the United Kingdom and its owner, Imperial Brands, is also headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Davidoff still owned by Imperial Brands?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, Davidoff is still owned by Imperial Brands. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Imperial Brands PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2025 — Imperial Brands PLC, Annual report; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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