Imperial Brands: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Imperial Brands (LSE: IMB) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom that owns 21 consumer brands across 2 categories through 1 subsidiary.[1]
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.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Imperial Brands PLC (also Imperial Tobacco Group, Imperial Tobacco)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇬🇧 Bristol, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1901
- Tickers
- LSE: IMB
- Website
- www.imperialbrandsplc.com
- Last verified
- · 5 sources
Imperial Brands in numbers
- Imperial Brands owns 21 consumer brands tracked here across 2 top-level categories; the largest is tobacco & nicotine with 20 brands.[1]
- 15 of its brands originated outside United Kingdom.
- Brands are held through 1 recorded subsidiaries.
Everything Imperial Brands 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
Tobacco & nicotine (20)
Full portfolio, 21 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →
Subsidiaries and holding entities
| Entity | Stake | Jurisdiction | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logista Integral, S.A. | 50.01% | Spain | — | [4] |
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Imperial Brands in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
- Legal entity identifier (LEI)
- 549300DFVPOB67JL3A42
- Registered name
- IMPERIAL BRANDS PLC (GB)
- Registration status
- Issued · record updated 29 December 2025
- Parent
- None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Imperial Brands own?
Imperial Brands owns 21 consumer brands tracked here, including Winston (United States), blu, Davidoff, Kool, Dutch Masters and Zone.
Is Imperial Brands a British company?
Yes. Imperial Brands is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom and was founded in 1901.
Who owns Imperial Brands?
Imperial Brands is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as IMB on the LSE.
Sources (5) & 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] Reynolds American Inc., Form 8-K, 12 June 2015 (completion of the Lorillard merger and the divestiture to ITG Brands) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Form 8-K, published 12 June 2015; retrieved 27 September 2026.
- [3] 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.
- [4] Consolidated Report - Logista FY25 — Logista Integral, S.A., Annual report; retrieved 5 October 2026.
- [5] Imperial Tobacco Group PLC, Form 20-F for the year ended 30 September 2007 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Form 20-F, published 30 November 2007; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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