Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken: version 4
Saved 2026-09-23 01:25 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled owner_unknown: Reemtsma's own audited accounts to 30 Sep 2024 (filed with the Bundestag lobby register) name Imperial Tobacco Holdings International B.V. (KvK 74708058, via its German branch HRB 157272) as shareholder with a profit-transfer agreement, and Imperial Brands PLC as ultimate parent. Added owned_by that B.V. (verified, ^ja-fy24) and moved parent_org imperial-brands to ^ja-fy24; created stub company/imperial-tobacco-holdings-international (parent_org imperial-brands; References hrb157272, nd-branch). Walk-up stops there: the B.V.'s direct shareholder is only on paywalled KvK/Company.info data and its old-name LEI (21380027N7C5I81EI879) belongs to KvK 34146737, now Imperial Brands Holdings International B.V., and is lapsed; queued the stub for cleanup. Settled absence_prose: removed the ownership/founding narration paragraph from About and the "no public source" clause from the relation note. Set founded to 1949-03-15, the Hamburg register entry date per North Data, with the 1910 business lineage kept in About. Added References row ja-fy24 plus average headcount 1,526 (FY2023/24). No Meta section; images unchanged. Reworded the head-office note to name the jps.de imprint in words instead of a ^ref marker.. This is the current version.
Source of v4
# Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken
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
summary: German cigarette maker in Hamburg, owned by Imperial Brands since 2002, behind West, Davidoff, JPS and Peter Stuyvesant.
legal_name: Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
registered_address: Friesenweg 18, 22763 Hamburg, Germany
wikidata: Q1424136
country: DE
website: https://www.reemtsma.com/
register_ids: DE-HRB:Hamburg 5153, VAT:DE118619656, EUID:DEK1101R.HRB5153
founded: 1949-03-15
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | -------------------------------------- | ------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| | 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 |
| | office | Georgenstraße 25, 10117 Berlin | DE | ^lobby | Hauptstadtrepräsentanz, the capital-city representation named in the lobby-register entry |
| | 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 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH | legal | | | |
| Reemtsma | search | | | |
| H. F. & Ph. F. Reemtsma GmbH | search | | | |
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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-bcbae8c6.png | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | Unknown author | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AReemtsma_Cigarettenfabriken_logo.svg | 2026-09-20 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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## 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 | 2026-09-20 | Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| 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/ |
| dewiki | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reemtsma_Cigarettenfabriken | Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| 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 | | | | | |
| wikidata | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1424136 | Wikidata: Reemtsma (Q1424136) | 2026-09-20 | Wikidata | catalogue | | Q1424136 | | CC0 | | |
| 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 | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
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]
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]
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