Company Announcements

Imperial Brands statement re US cigarette volume trends

Imperial Brands publishes the following industry volume data for the US market.

ITG Brands has continued to gain share over recent months leading to a 14 basis point gain in share over the past 26-week period.  We expect full year US industry volume declines will be maintained around 4.5-5%.

Basis of presentation
Volume and market share data is based on MSAi. MSAi compiles weekly data from over 300,000 stores, representing at least 95% of US tobacco volumes. It does not rely on any extrapolation as a result of its extensive coverage.

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