Richmond: version 3
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# Richmond <!--brand-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Richmond
disambiguation: British cigarette brand of Imperial Tobacco
summary: British value cigarette brand of Imperial Tobacco, sold in the UK since 1999 and long one of the country's best-selling brands.
founded: 1968
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| owned_by | company/imperial-tobacco | | | | | verified | ^wp-richmond | Wikipedia states the brand is owned and manufactured by Imperial Tobacco; the BBC attributes both Richmond variants to Imperial and Imperial's own trade announcements present the range as its own. The group's UK operating company is Imperial Tobacco Limited. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Richmond cigarettes | search | en | | |
| Richmond Superkings | search | en | | |
| Richmond King Size | search | en | | |
| Richmond Original | search | en | 2021 | |
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## Images <!--images-->
| asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled |
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| logo-9e918f7e.png | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | Unknown author | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARichmond_cigarettes_logo.png | 2026-09-21 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------ | ----------- | ---------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ----------- | ---------------------------- |
| wp-richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_(cigarette) | Richmond (cigarette) | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| bbc-smoking | https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4709394.stm | The way the British smoke | 2026-09-21 | BBC News | publication | 2007-06-29 | | UK's best-selling cigarettes, 2004 figures | | | Action on Smoking and Health |
| uk-sp | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/829/regulation/1/made | The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015, regulation 1 | 2026-09-21 | legislation.gov.uk | registry | 2015-03-19 | UKSI 2015/829 | Regulation 1(2) | OGL v3.0 | | |
| tr-superslims | https://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/tobacco/imperial-tobacco-launches-richmond-superslims-cigarettes-02-08-2011/ | Imperial Tobacco launches Richmond Superslims cigarettes | 2026-09-21 | Talking Retail | publication | 2011-08-02 | | | | | Imperial Tobacco |
| tr-revamp | https://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/tobacco/imperial-tobacco-revamps-richmond-range-27-09-2021/ | Imperial Tobacco revamps Richmond range | 2026-09-21 | Talking Retail | publication | 2021-09-27 | | | | | |
| tr-compact | https://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/tobacco/imperial-launches-compact-range-of-cigarettes-21-08-2023/ | Imperial launches compact range of cigarettes | 2026-09-21 | Talking Retail | publication | 2023-08-21 | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Richmond is a British brand of cigarettes owned and manufactured by Imperial Tobacco, whose United Kingdom operating company sits inside the Imperial Brands group.[^wp-richmond] Imperial first used the name in Canada in 1968 and reintroduced it in the United Kingdom in 1999 as a value brand, competing at the lower end of the market with Mayfair, Sovereign and Park Road.[^wp-richmond] On 2004 market figures it was the strongest of those value brands: Richmond Superkings was the fourth best-selling cigarette in Britain on 6.6 per cent and Richmond King Size fifth on 4.9 per cent.[^bbc-smoking] Imperial said in 2011 that more than one in ten cigarette purchases in the country came from the range.[^tr-superslims] Since a 2021 repositioning it is sold as Richmond Original, Bright and Green Filter, with a Compact format added in 2023.[^tr-revamp][^tr-compact]
The Canadian Richmond of 1968 was a filtered king size and Imperial's only brand to use the Strickman filter, an early high-filtration tip thought to cut particulate matter in the smoke more effectively than standard cellulose acetate; those claims were later disproved and the brand was withdrawn by the early 1970s.[^wp-richmond] The British brand that carries the name from 1999 was built on bright blue packaging, restyled in early 2006 from a serif wordmark to a sans-serif one on a more minimalist pack, with limited-edition Chill Edition packs in 2008 whose tactile finish was carried across the range in a 2011 update.[^wp-richmond] In August 2011 Imperial added Richmond Superslims, which it presented as the first superslim cigarette in the United Kingdom value sector, in standard and menthol packs of 20 at a recommended £6.16.[^tr-superslims] Brand colours left British packs on 20 May 2016, the day the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015 came into force.[^uk-sp] In September 2021, after cutting the price, Imperial placed the whole portfolio in a value tier and renamed the Real Blue variants Richmond Original, selling packs of 20 at £9.25,[^tr-revamp] and in August 2023 it added Richmond Compact, a rounded-corner pack whose sticks are 13 per cent slimmer, at a recommended £10.99.[^tr-compact] The brand has been sold outside the United Kingdom as well, in markets that have included Luxembourg, Belgium, Finland, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Aruba, Curaçao, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.[^wp-richmond]
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