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Our global business - BAT at-a-glance

Our at-a-glance guide to BAT , features key facts and figures about our business. It also contains bitesize information around our A Better Tomorrow™ purpose, sustainability ambitions and more besides.

 

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(Group subsidiaries, as at 31 December 2023)

 
Revenue
 £27,283 million
Adjusted profit from operations £12,465 million
Revenue from New Categories £3,347 million
Consumers of Non-Combustible products1 26.4 million
Group cigarette volume 555 billion
Heated Product (HP) volume 24 billion
Vapour units volume 654 million
Modern oral 5.36 billion pouches
Major taxes paid £39.1 billion
Markets in which we operate >150
BAT-owned manufacturing facilities 70
Employees 46,000+
Shareholders (combined UK and South African registers) 100,367
Shareholders (American Depositary Shares) 8,222

1 As at 30 June 2024

 

About BAT


BAT is a leading, multi-category consumer goods business with a purpose to build A Better Tomorrow™ by reducing the health impact of its business through offering a greater choice of enjoyable and less risky products for adult consumers.

The company continues to be clear that combustible cigarettes pose serious health risks, and the only way to avoid these risks is not to start or to quit. BAT encourages those who would otherwise continue to smoke to switch completely to scientifically-substantiated, reduced-risk alternatives*† . In order to deliver this, BAT is transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category consumer products business.

BAT’s vision is to Build a Smokeless World, with an ambition to have 50 million consumers of its Smokeless Products by 2030 and to accelerate the growth of our Smokeless Products, reaaching at least 50% of revenues by 2035. BAT has set stretching sustainability targets including achieving carbon neutrality for Scopes 1 & 2 by 2030 and eliminating unnecessary single-use plastic and making all packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.

BAT employs over 46,000 people. The BAT Group generated revenue of £27.2 billion in 2023 and profit from operations of £12.4 billion.

The company’s Strategic Portfolio is made up of its global cigarette brands and a growing range of smokeless New Category tobacco and nicotine products and traditional Non-Combustible tobacco products. These include Vapour, Heated products, Modern Oral products including tobacco-free nicotine pouches, as well as traditional oral products such as snus and moist snuff. In the full year of 2023, we had 23.9 million consumers1 of our Smokeless Products.

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* Based on the weight of evidence and assuming a complete switch from cigarette smoking. These products are not risk free and are addictive.
† Our vapour product Vuse (including Alto, Solo, Ciro and Vibe), and certain products, including Velo, Grizzly, Kodiak, and Camel Snus, which are sold in the U.S., are subject to FDA regulation and no reduced-risk claims will be made as to these products without agency clearance.
1 Excludes Russia and Belarus

Forward Looking Statements

This ’notes to editors’ contains certain forward-looking statements, including "forward-looking" statements made within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as "believe," "anticipate," "could," "may," "would," "should," "intend," "plan," "potential," "predict," "will," "expect," "estimate," "project," "positioned," "strategy," "outlook", "target" and similar expressions. These include statements regarding our customer target ambition, New Categories revenue targets and our ESG targets.

All such forward-looking statements involve estimates and assumptions that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors. It is believed that the expectations reflected in this release are reasonable but they may be affected by a wide range of variables that could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. A review of the reasons why actual results and developments may differ materially from the expectations disclosed or implied within forward-looking statements can be found by referring to the information contained under the headings “Cautionary Statement” and "Group Principal Risks " in the 2021 Annual Report and Form 20-F of British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BAT).

Additional information concerning these and other factors can be found in BAT's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including the Annual Report on Form 20-F and Current Reports on Form 6-K, which may be obtained free of charge at the SEC's website, http://www.sec.gov and BAT’s Annual Reports, which may be obtained free of charge from the BAT website www.bat.com.

Past performance is no guide to future performance and persons needing advice should consult an independent financial adviser. The forward-looking statements reflect knowledge and information available at the date of preparation of this release and BAT undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.

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