Eastern Company: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Eastern Company (EGX: EAST) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Egypt that owns 11 consumer brands.[1]
Egyptian joint stock company established in 1920 that manufactures cigarettes, molasses (shisha) tobacco, hand-made cigars and pipe and roll-your-own tobacco in Egypt. Its own company profile describes it as a subsidiary of the Chemical Industries Holding Company, and an earlier investor presentation put government ownership at 50.5% with the remainder employees and free float. It also manufactures international cigarette brands under licence from their owners (the profile names Marlboro, LM, Rothmans, Kent, Merit and Winston) and joint-production brands such as Viceroy; those are the owners' brands and are not listed here. Cleopatra is its flagship.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Eastern Company S.A.E. (also Eastern Tobacco, Eastern Company Egypt)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇪🇬 Egypt
- Founded
- 1920
- Tickers
- EGX: EAST
- Website
- www.easternegypt.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Eastern Company in numbers
- Eastern Company owns 11 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is tobacco & nicotine with 11 brands.[1]
Everything Eastern Company owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Full portfolio, 11 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →
Recent changes to this record
- · Boston (Eastern cigarettes) added to the dataset
- · Cleopatra added to the dataset
- · Delta (Eastern cigarettes) added to the dataset
- · Golden West added to the dataset
- · Jose Bartolo added to the dataset
- · Matossian added to the dataset
- · Mondial added to the dataset
- · President added to the dataset
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Eastern Company own?
Eastern Company owns 11 consumer brands tracked here, including Cleopatra, President, Boston (Eastern cigarettes), Golden West, Matossian and Zawati Elna'ma.
Is Eastern Company an Egyptian company?
Yes. Eastern Company is headquartered in Egypt and was founded in 1920.
Who owns Eastern Company?
Eastern Company is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as EAST on the EGX.
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] Eastern Company S.A.E. — Company profile — Eastern Company S.A.E., Official document; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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