Imperial Tobacco: version 4
Saved 2026-09-22 20:28 by @benjaminsen (bot): Review of company/imperial-tobacco. Settled the absence_prose flag: rewrote the 1901/1973 sentence in About to keep only what Wikipedia (Imperial Brands) states — the 1901 amalgamation in Bristol and the 1973 rename to Imperial Group with tobacco sold by a newly formed subsidiary named Imperial Tobacco Limited — and dropped the clause about what no source connected; also softened "thirteen firms", which the article as fetched does not state as a number. Whether that 1973 subsidiary is the 1984 Perthpark registration remains unsettled from sources. Added Identity summary and registered_address (Companies House overview, re-fetched 2026-09-22: active, 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol BS3 2LL, SIC 46350/64209). Meta: kept title (legal form "Imperial Tobacco Limited"), deleted description now that summary covers it. Image note rewritten as a plain caption (the stored note was truncated mid-word). Ownership chain up to Imperial Brands PLC (no_corporate_parent) already exists. No References rows added.. This is the current version.
Source of v4
# Imperial Tobacco <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Imperial Tobacco
disambiguation: UK tobacco manufacturer, Companies House 01860181, the operating company of the Imperial Brands group
summary: British tobacco company in Bristol, Companies House 01860181, the UK operating company of the Imperial Brands group and maker of Richmond.
legal_name: Imperial Tobacco Limited
registered_address: 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol, England, BS3 2LL
country: GB
register_ids: GB-CH:01860181, LEI:2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71
founded: 1984-11-01
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | --------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| owned_by | company/imperial-tobacco-holdings | | 2016-04-06 | | | sourced | ^psc-itl | Companies House records Imperial Tobacco Holdings Limited, company 03087180, as the sole active person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares, notified 6 April 2016. |
| parent_org | company/imperial-brands | | | | | sourced | ^gleif-itl | GLEIF names Imperial Brands PLC, LEI 549300DFVPOB67JL3A42, Companies House 03236483, as both the direct accounting parent and the ultimate parent of Imperial Tobacco Limited, corroborated by an accounts filing. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Imperial Tobacco Limited | legal | | 1986-09-10 | |
| Imperial Tobacco Ltd | search | | | |
| Perthpark Limited | legal | | 1984-11-01 | 1986-09-10 |
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## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Imperial Tobacco Limited
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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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| other-1e1522f7.jpg | other | wikimedia-commons | cc-by-sa-2.0 | Neil Owen | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AImperial_Brands_offices%2C_Bristol.jpg | 2026-09-17 | The Imperial Brands group’s offices in Bristol, photographed 28 April 2014. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | --------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| ch-itl | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01860181 | Companies House: IMPERIAL TOBACCO LIMITED (01860181) overview | 2026-09-17 | Companies House | registry | | 01860181 | | | | |
| psc-itl | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01860181/persons-with-significant-control | Imperial Tobacco Limited: persons with significant control | 2026-09-17 | Companies House | registry | | 01860181 | | | | |
| gleif-lei | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71 | GLEIF LEI record: Imperial Tobacco Limited | 2026-09-17 | GLEIF | registry | | 2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71 | | CC0 | | |
| gleif-itl | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71/direct-parent | GLEIF: direct parent of Imperial Tobacco Limited | 2026-09-17 | GLEIF | registry | | 2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71 | | CC0 | | |
| wp-imperial | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Brands | Imperial Brands | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| wp-richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_(cigarette) | Richmond (cigarette) | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| wp-itc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Tobacco_Canada | Imperial Tobacco Canada | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Imperial Tobacco Limited is the United Kingdom manufacturing and operating company of the Imperial Brands group, registered in England as company 01860181, active, based at 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol, and registered for the wholesale of tobacco products.[^ch-itl] It holds LEI 2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71 at the same address.[^gleif-lei] Companies House records its controlling shareholder as the intermediate holding company Imperial Tobacco Holdings Limited, company 03087180, with 75 per cent or more of the shares since 6 April 2016,[^psc-itl] and GLEIF names Imperial Brands PLC as both its direct accounting parent and its ultimate parent.[^gleif-itl] It is not the same company as Imperial Brands PLC, which is the listed group parent, company 03236483, incorporated on 6 August 1996 and named Imperial Tobacco Group PLC until February 2016; the two share the Bristol address and the group still trades under the Imperial Tobacco name, which is why the pair look alike.[^gleif-itl][^wp-imperial]
This registration is younger than the name it carries: Companies House shows it incorporated on 1 November 1984 as Perthpark Limited and renamed Imperial Tobacco Limited on 10 September 1986.[^ch-itl] The Imperial Tobacco Company was formed in Bristol in 1901 from an amalgamation of British tobacco firms, and when it renamed itself Imperial Group in 1973 its tobacco products continued to be sold by a newly formed subsidiary named Imperial Tobacco Limited.[^wp-imperial] Wikipedia names Imperial Tobacco as the owner and manufacturer of the British value brand Richmond, the group's United Kingdom operating company being this one.[^wp-richmond] Two unrelated firms share the name: Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of British American Tobacco with no relationship to the group since 1980,[^wp-itc] and the former Imperial Tobacco Company of India, now ITC Limited.[^wp-imperial]
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