John Player Special Just Red: version 1
Saved 2026-09-25 00:40 by @benjaminsen (bot): Added John Player Special Just Red, EAN-8 40296944: the German 2012 pack of 21 filter cigarettes marked "ohne Zusätze", priced EUR 5.00 on the cellophane, which family/john-player-special names. Sources: the zigsam.at pack catalogue (barcode, year, price, tar/nicotine, producer, trade mark owner) and its front photo of the pack (read for the wording; not reused, no licence); Wikipedia and the Imperial Brands brand page for ownership; zigarette.de for Reemtsma as the German maker of the current 20-pack article (manufactured_by is derived, with a disputed gap because the collector only says "Imperial Tobacco"). There is no GS1 prefix owner for this EAN-8. No current listing of this barcode was found, so the markets gap is marked stale. Open Food Facts, USDA, Wikidata and web searches returned nothing for the barcode.. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# John Player Special Just Red <!--product-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 00000040296944
name: John Player Special Just Red
family: family/john-player-special
default_observation: de-2012
summary: German John Player Special Just Red filter cigarettes marked "ohne Zusätze", 21 in a flip-top box, recorded in 2012 with EAN-8 40296944 and a €5.00 price printed on the cellophane.
brand: brand/john-player-special
category: category/10000185
country_of_sale: DE
piece_count: 21
pack_format: flip-top box with cellophane
last_seen: 2012
last_seen_note: German pack recorded by the zigsam.at collection in 2012
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/imperial-brands | | | | | sourced | ^wp-players | Wikipedia: John Player Special is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands (named Imperial Tobacco Group PLC until 2016) |
| manufactured_by | company/reemtsma-cigarettenfabriken | DE | | | | derived | ^zigarette | The collector names the producer of this German 2012 pack as "Imperial Tobacco"; a German retailer names Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH, Hamburg, as maker of the JPS Just Red sold in Germany today, under a carton barcode of 20-cigarette packs |
<!--/relations-->
## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price |
| ------- | ------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | --------- | ------ | -------- |
| DE | sourced | ^zigsam | Collector's record of a German 2012 John Player Special Just Red pack of 21 filter cigarettes with barcode 40296944; "5.00 21 STÜCK" printed on the cellophane and a German health warning on the front | 2012 | | | EUR 5.00 |
<!--/markets-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| JPS Just Red | search | | | |
| John Player Special Just Red 21 | search | | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Specifications <!--specifications-->
| property | value | unit | source | note | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method | qualifier |
| -------- | ----- | ---- | ------- | ----------------------------- | ----------- | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | --------- |
| Tar | 10 | | ^zigsam | Unit not stated by the source | de-2012 | | 10 | | known | printed | exact |
| Nicotine | 0.9 | | ^zigsam | Unit not stated by the source | de-2012 | | 0.9 | | known | printed | exact |
<!--/specifications-->
## Observations <!--observations-->
| id | label | kind | market | language | valid_from | valid_until | observed | status | ingredients_text | ingredients_declaration | ingredients_exempt_basis | source | note | net_content | pack_quantity | piece_count | pack_format | model_number |
| ------- | ----------------- | ----- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | -------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ |
| de-2012 | German pack, 2012 | label | DE | de | | | 2012 | supported | | | | ^zigsam | Collector's record and front photograph: John Player Special Just Red, 21 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane, "JUST RED / OHNE ZUSÄTZE" under the crest, the red JPS monogram on a beige ground, "5.00 21 STÜCK" on the cellophane; producer Imperial Tobacco; trade mark owner John Player & Sons | | | 21 | flip-top box with cellophane | |
<!--/observations-->
## Label claims <!--claims-->
| observation | claim | kind | source | note |
| ----------- | ------------ | ----- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| de-2012 | Ohne Zusätze | label | ^zigsam-photo | Printed under the name on the front of the pack |
<!--/claims-->
## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain | state | detail | source |
| ----------- | -------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
| | relationships | unknown | No source names the GS1 licensee of EAN-8 40296944, so no gs1_prefix_owner edge. GS1 Germany allocates EAN-8 numbers one at a time, so there is no company prefix to read from the number | |
| de-2012 | specifications | unknown | The collection gives tar and nicotine as bare numbers without units, so the rows keep no unit | ^zigsam |
| | markets | stale | The only record of this barcode is the German 2012 pack; German retailers now list JPS Just Red in packs of 20 under other barcodes, and no current listing of 40296944 was found | ^zigarette |
| de-2012 | images | unknown | No freely licensed photograph of this pack was found: the zigsam.at pack photographs carry no licence | ^zigsam-photo |
| | relationships | disputed | The collector names "Imperial Tobacco" as producer of this pack without naming the entity; the manufactured_by row points to the German group company a retailer names for the current article | ^zigsam |
<!--/research_gaps-->
## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-25
note: Built from the barcode outward for the John Player Special family page, which names this barcode. The only source printing the barcode is the zigsam.at cigarette-pack collector's catalogue, whose front photograph was read for the pack wording; brand ownership from Wikipedia and the Imperial Brands brand page; the German maker from a German retailer listing of the current article.
<!--/research-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ----------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| zigsam | http://www.zigsam.at/B_JohnPlayerSpecial1.htm | John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 | 2026-09-25 | zigsam.at cigarette pack collection | other | | | John Player Special Just Red, Germany 2012 | | | |
| zigsam-photo | http://www.zigsam.at/l09/JPSJustRed-21DE2012.htm | John Player Special Just Red 21DE2012 | 2026-09-25 | zigsam.at cigarette pack collection | other | | | Front photograph of the pack | | | |
| zigsam2 | http://www.zigsam.at/B_JohnPlayerSpecial.htm | John Player Special - regular packs since 2016 | 2026-09-25 | zigsam.at cigarette pack collection | other | | | Austrian Just Red packs 2016-2023 | | | |
| zigarette | https://www.zigarette.de/jps-just-red-zigaretten-10130 | JPS Just Red 9,00 € Zigaretten | 2026-09-25 | Zigarette.de | retailer | | 10130 | Hersteller block and product data | | | |
| wp-players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Player_%26_Sons | John Player & Sons | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| 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) | 2026-09-25 | Imperial Brands | manufacturer | 2026-09-13 | | JPS entry and brand timeline | | | https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
John Player Special Just Red is a filter cigarette sold in Germany in a flip-top box of 21 under the EAN-8 barcode 40296944.[^zigsam] A cigarette-pack collection records the pack in 2012 with "5.00 21 STÜCK" printed on the cellophane, tar 10 and nicotine 0.9, and names Imperial Tobacco as the producer and John Player & Sons as the trade mark owner.[^zigsam] The front prints "Just Red" and "ohne Zusätze" (without additives) above the red JPS monogram on a beige ground.[^zigsam-photo] The line is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands, which launched JPS in the United Kingdom in 1970.[^wp-players][^ib-brands]
A German retailer today sells JPS Just Red as an additive-free American blend king size cigarette in packs of 20, made by Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken in Hamburg.[^zigarette] In Austria the collection records John Player Special Ohne Zusätze Red giving way to John Player Special Just Red in August 2016, under Austrian barcodes.[^zigsam][^zigsam2]
<!--/about-->