Who owns Gauloises?
Gauloises is owned by Imperial Brands (the United Kingdom, LSE: IMB), which has owned the brand since 25 January 2008.[1][2]
Evidence: Imperial Brands PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Imperial Brands PLC reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Bristol
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- Category
- Tobacco & nicotine › Tobacco products › Cigarettes
- Parent ticker
- LSE: IMB
- Trademark registrant
- SOCIETE NATIONALE INDUSTRIELLE DES TABACS ET ALLUMETTES (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 3 sources
About Gauloises
Gauloises is a French-origin cigarette brand in Imperial's international portfolio, sold across multiple markets including Germany, where the FY2025 annual report notes further growth investment, and Morocco, where Imperial developed Gauloises Rich Gold, a Virginia-blend cigarette with a smoother profile and premium-feel packaging, after consumer insight identified evolving local taste expectations. The report also describes new Gauloises range additions in Morocco to address portfolio gaps.
Trademark record for Gauloises
The USPTO record for the Gauloises mark lists SOCIETE NATIONALE INDUSTRIELLE DES TABACS ET ALLUMETTES as the owner of record (serial number 72002822). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[3]
Ownership timeline of Gauloises
- 2008 – present Imperial Brands [1][2] reported
Where Gauloises sits in Imperial Brands
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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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)
- Davidoff
- Ducados
- Dutch Masters (1911)
- Fortuna
- 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 →
🇫🇷 Gauloises and other French brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 327 brands that began in France. 102 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Gauloises among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Gauloises?
The parent company of Gauloises is Imperial Brands, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Gauloises French or British?
Gauloises originated in France, but it is owned today by Imperial Brands, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Gauloises is a French-origin brand under British ownership.
Since when has Imperial Brands owned Gauloises?
Imperial Brands has owned Gauloises since 25 January 2008.
Is Gauloises still owned by Imperial Brands?
Yes. As of 27 September 2026, Gauloises is still owned by Imperial Brands. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (3) & 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.
- [2] Imperial Tobacco Group PLC Announces the Final Result of its Offer for Altadis, S.A., 25 January 2008 (Exhibit 99.3 to Form 6-K) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC filing, published 25 January 2008; retrieved 27 September 2026.
- [3] USPTO: GAULOISES, serial 72002822, registration 651395 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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