Japan Tobacco: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Japan Tobacco (TYO: 2914) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that owns 8 consumer brands.[1]
Japan Tobacco is a Tokyo-listed tobacco group that grew into an international company in 1999, when it bought RJR Nabisco's international tobacco business and formed JT International SA, headquartered in Geneva, to run it. JT describes the Gallaher acquisition in 2007 as having "overnight" doubled the size of the group. Its global flagship combustible brands are Winston, Camel, Mevius and LD, and it markets reduced-risk products under the Ploom heated-tobacco and Logic vapour brands.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Japan Tobacco Inc. (also JT, JT Group)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
- Tickers
- TYO: 2914
- Website
- www.jt.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Japan Tobacco in numbers
- Japan Tobacco owns 8 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is tobacco & nicotine with 8 brands.[1]
- 6 of its brands originated outside Japan.
Everything Japan Tobacco 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
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Japan Tobacco own?
Japan Tobacco owns 8 consumer brands tracked here, including Natural American Spirit, Winston, Ploom, Camel, Mevius and LD.
Is Japan Tobacco a Japanese company?
Yes. Japan Tobacco is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Who owns Japan Tobacco?
Japan Tobacco is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as 2914 on the TYO.
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] Our heritage — JT International SA, Official document; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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