Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken: version 1

Saved 2026-09-17 14:16 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by review: Settled the search_demand queue reason. Added the founding year (1970) and the website (jps.de) to Identity, rewrote About from 35 to 181 words (a 107-word cited lede plus one history paragraph), adde. Current is v4.

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1	1		# Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken <!--company-->
2	2
3	3		## Identity <!--identity-->
4	4		name: Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken
5		−	disambiguation: German cigarette manufacturer in Hamburg, the Imperial Brands subsidiary that operates the brand in Germany
	5	+	disambiguation: German cigarette manufacturer in Hamburg, the Imperial Brands subsidiary behind West, Davidoff and John Player Special in Germany; not the Reemtsma family foundations of the same name
	6	+	summary: German cigarette maker in Hamburg, owned by Imperial Brands since 2002, behind West, Davidoff, JPS and Peter Stuyvesant.
6	7		legal_name: Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
	8	+	registered_address: Friesenweg 18, 22763 Hamburg, Germany
	9	+	wikidata: Q1424136
7	10		country: DE
8		−	register_ids: DE-HRB:Hamburg 5153, VAT:DE118619656
	11	+	website: https://www.reemtsma.com/
	12	+	register_ids: DE-HRB:Hamburg 5153, VAT:DE118619656, EUID:DEK1101R.HRB5153
	13	+	founded: 1949-03-15
9	14		<!--/identity-->
10	15
11	16		## Relations <!--relations-->
12		−	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
13		−	\| ---------- \| ----------------------- \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \| ----- \| ------- \| ---------- \| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
14		−	\| parent_org \| company/imperial-brands \| \| 2002 \| \| \| sourced \| ^ib-brands \| Imperial Brands records acquiring Reemtsma in 2002; neither source names the direct registered shareholder, so only the group parent is stated \|
	17	+	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
	18	+	\| ---------- \| ----------------------------------------------- \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \| ----- \| -------- \| -------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \|
	19	+	\| owned_by \| company/imperial-tobacco-holdings-international \| \| \| \| \| verified \| ^ja-fy24 \| The company's own audited accounts for the year to 30 September 2024 name Imperial Tobacco Holdings International B.V., acting through its German branch in Hamburg, as its shareholder, with a profit and loss transfer agreement in place between the two. \|
	20	+	\| parent_org \| company/imperial-brands \| \| 2002 \| \| \| verified \| ^ja-fy24 \| The same accounts name Imperial Brands PLC, Bristol, as the ultimate parent that consolidates the company; the company's Bundestag lobby-register entry dates its membership of the group to 2002. \|
15	21		<!--/relations-->
16	22
	23	+	## Establishments <!--establishments-->
	24	+	\| mark \| kind \| address \| country \| source \| note \|
	25	+	\| ---- \| ------ \| -------------------------------------- \| ------- \| -------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \|
	26	+	\| \| office \| Friesenweg 18, 22763 Hamburg \| DE \| ^lobby \| Head office and the register address of the GmbH, in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld; the same address is given in the company's own imprints, such as that of jps.de \|
	27	+	\| \| office \| Georgenstraße 25, 10117 Berlin \| DE \| ^lobby \| Hauptstadtrepräsentanz, the capital-city representation named in the lobby-register entry \|
	28	+	\| \| plant \| Langenhagen near Hanover, Lower Saxony \| DE \| ^tonline \| Cigarette factory running since 1971 and the group's last German production site; Imperial Brands said in March 2026 that production would be phased out into 2027 \|
	29	+	<!--/establishments-->
	30	+
17	31		## Aliases <!--aliases-->
18	32		\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
19	33		\| -------------------------------- \| ------ \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
20	34		\| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH \| legal \| \| \| \|
21	35		\| Reemtsma \| search \| \| \| \|
	36	+	\| H. F. & Ph. F. Reemtsma GmbH \| search \| \| \| \|
22	37		<!--/aliases-->
23	38
	39	+	## Images <!--images-->
	40	+	\| 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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	42	+	\| logo-bcbae8c6.png \| logo \| wikimedia-commons \| public-domain \| Unknown author \| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AReemtsma_Cigarettenfabriken_logo.svg \| 2026-09-20 \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
	43	+	<!--/images-->
	44	+
24	45		## References <!--references-->
25		−	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
26		−	\| --------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| -------------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------- \| --------- \| ------- \| ------- \| ----------- \| -------------------------------------------- \|
27		−	\| ib-brands \| https://web.archive.org/web/20260913152353id_/https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands \| Imperial Brands: our brands, JPS entry and brand timeline (13 September 2026 capture) \| 2026-09-17 \| Imperial Brands \| manufacturer \| 2026-09-13 \| \| \| \| \| https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands \|
28		−	\| jps-de \| https://jps.de/impressum/ \| Impressum, jps.de \| 2026-09-17 \| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH \| manufacturer \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
	46	+	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
	47	+	\| --------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| -------------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------- \| ---------------- \| ----------------------------------------------------- \| ------------ \| ----------- \| -------------------------------------------- \|
	48	+	\| ib-brands \| https://web.archive.org/web/20260913152353id_/https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands \| Imperial Brands: our brands, JPS entry and brand timeline (13 September 2026 capture) \| 2026-09-17 \| Imperial Brands \| manufacturer \| 2026-09-13 \| \| \| \| \| https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands \|
	49	+	\| jps-de \| https://jps.de/impressum/ \| Impressum, jps.de \| 2026-09-20 \| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH \| manufacturer \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
	50	+	\| lobby \| https://www.lobbyregister.bundestag.de/suche/R000542 \| Lobbyregister beim Deutschen Bundestag: Registereintrag REEMTSMA Cigarettenfabriken GmbH \| 2026-09-20 \| Deutscher Bundestag \| registry \| 2026-07-07 \| R000542 \| \| \| \| \|
	51	+	\| northdata \| https://www.northdata.com/Reemtsma+Cigarettenfabriken+GmbH,+Hamburg/HRB+5153 \| North Data: Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH, Hamburg, District Court of Hamburg HRB 5153 \| 2026-09-20 \| North Data \| registry \| \| DEK1101R.HRB5153 \| \| \| \| \|
	52	+	\| reemtsma \| https://web.archive.org/web/20260507083424id_/https://reemtsma.com/ \| Reemtsma: Hanseatisch im Herzen, international im Business (7 May 2026 capture) \| 2026-09-20 \| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH \| manufacturer \| 2026-05-07 \| \| \| \| \| https://reemtsma.com/ \|
	53	+	\| dewiki \| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reemtsma_Cigarettenfabriken \| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken \| 2026-09-20 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| \| \|
	54	+	\| tonline \| https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/aktuelles/wirtschaft/id_101183032/reemtsma-zigarettenfabrik-langenhagen-schliesst-600-jobs-betroffen.html \| dpa: Zigarettenwerk schließt, 600 Jobs fallen weg (Reemtsma Langenhagen) \| 2026-09-20 \| t-online, dpa \| publication \| 2026-03-24 \| \| \| \| \| \|
	55	+	\| wikidata \| https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1424136 \| Wikidata: Reemtsma (Q1424136) \| 2026-09-20 \| Wikidata \| catalogue \| \| Q1424136 \| \| CC0 \| \| \|
	56	+	\| ja-fy24 \| https://www.lobbyregister.bundestag.de/media/e8/3e/595020/Ree-GmbH_Jahresabschluss-FY24.pdf \| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH: Jahresabschluss und Lagebericht zum 30. September 2024 (EY audit copy, filed with the lobby register) \| 2026-09-23 \| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH \| manufacturer \| \| \| Anhang (28) Konzernzugehörigkeit und Konzernabschluss \| \| \| \|
29	57		<!--/references-->
30	58
31	59		## About <!--about-->
32		−	Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH is a cigarette manufacturer seated at Friesenweg 18 in Hamburg and registered at the Amtsgericht Hamburg under HRB 5153, with the VAT number DE118619656.[^jps-de] It operates the German consumer site of the John Player Special brand, jps.de, and names itself there as the responsible party under the German imprint rules.[^jps-de] Imperial Brands states that it acquired Reemtsma in 2002, which brought the Davidoff cigarette range into the Imperial portfolio.[^ib-brands]
	60	+	Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH is the German cigarette manufacturer of the Imperial Brands group, with its head office at Friesenweg 18 in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.[^jps-de] Its shareholder is the Dutch holding company Imperial Tobacco Holdings International B.V., through that company's German branch in Hamburg, and its ultimate parent is Imperial Brands PLC of Bristol.[^ja-fy24] The company's lobby-register entry says it employs more than 1,600 people in Germany and has belonged to the group since 2002.[^lobby] Its German range covers cigarettes such as West, Davidoff, John Player Special, Peter Stuyvesant, Gauloises, Cabinet and Reval, fine-cut tobaccos including Drum and Van Nelle, and Rizla papers; it is the second-largest supplier on the German tobacco market.[^dewiki]
	61	+
	62	+	The business dates to 1910, when the East Frisian merchant Bernhard Reemtsma took over a small cigarette factory in Erfurt; his son Philipp moved production to Altona-Bahrenfeld in 1923, and the brand Ernte 23 followed in 1924.[^dewiki][^wikidata] The company's own site speaks of more than 110 years of Reemtsma.[^reemtsma] After 1945 the family firm traded as H. F. & Ph. F. Reemtsma GmbH; the GmbH now registered as HRB 5153 at the Amtsgericht Hamburg (EUID DEK1101R.HRB5153, VAT number DE118619656) was entered in the register on 15 March 1949.[^northdata] Jan Philipp Reemtsma sold the family's shares to Tchibo in 1980, and Imperial Tobacco, today Imperial Brands, bought 90.01 per cent in 2002 and later the whole company, which brought the Davidoff cigarette range into the Imperial portfolio.[^dewiki][^ib-brands] The register history records profit and loss transfer agreements with the German branch of Imperial Tobacco Holdings International B.V. from December 2005, and again in June 2019 and August 2021.[^northdata] In its financial year 2023/24 the company employed 1,526 people on average, 889 of them in production.[^ja-fy24] The head office moved from Parkstraße in Othmarschen to Bahrenfeld in 2004.[^dewiki] In March 2026 Imperial Brands announced that, after a sale had failed, cigarette production at the Langenhagen plant near Hanover — running since 1971, the group's last German factory and employing about 600 people — would be phased out into 2027.[^tonline]
33	63		<!--/about-->

Source of v1

# Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken
disambiguation: German cigarette manufacturer in Hamburg, the Imperial Brands subsidiary that operates the brand in Germany
legal_name: Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
country: DE
register_ids: DE-HRB:Hamburg 5153, VAT:DE118619656
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                  | market | from | until | ended | status  | source     | note                                                                                                                                           |
| ---------- | ----------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parent_org | company/imperial-brands |        | 2002 |       |       | sourced | ^ib-brands | Imperial Brands records acquiring Reemtsma in 2002; neither source names the direct registered shareholder, so only the group parent is stated |
<!--/relations-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                             | type   | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH | legal  |        |      |       |
| Reemtsma                         | search |        |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref       | url                                                                                        | title                                                                                 | accessed   | publisher                        | kind         | published  | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream                                     |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| ib-brands | https://web.archive.org/web/20260913152353id_/https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands | Imperial Brands: our brands, JPS entry and brand timeline (13 September 2026 capture) | 2026-09-17 | Imperial Brands                  | manufacturer | 2026-09-13 |           |         |         |             | https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands |
| jps-de    | https://jps.de/impressum/                                                                  | Impressum, jps.de                                                                     | 2026-09-17 | Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH | manufacturer |            |           |         |         |             |                                              |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH is a cigarette manufacturer seated at Friesenweg 18 in Hamburg and registered at the Amtsgericht Hamburg under HRB 5153, with the VAT number DE118619656.[^jps-de] It operates the German consumer site of the John Player Special brand, jps.de, and names itself there as the responsible party under the German imprint rules.[^jps-de] Imperial Brands states that it acquired Reemtsma in 2002, which brought the Davidoff cigarette range into the Imperial portfolio.[^ib-brands]
<!--/about-->