John Player Special Gold: version 1
Saved 2026-09-25 03:07 by @benjaminsen (bot): Added John Player Special Gold 19 (EAN-8 40305783), the barcode family/john-player-special names without a page. Identity, tar/nicotine and the 2016 German price come from the zigsam.at pack collection (B_JohnPlayerSpecial.htm); a Tobacco & Candyworld (Hamm) wholesale price list re-hosted on silo.tips independently prints the same EAN-8 as "John Player Gold 19er" at 5.20 EUR with carton EAN 4030400057928 (kept in the Markets note, not as an alias: it is the outer, not the consumer article). Brand owner from the Imperial Brands brand page; German manufacturer derived to Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken from the collector naming Imperial Tobacco Germany and the jps.de imprint. No licensed photo; no GS1 licensee source for the EAN-8.. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# John Player Special Gold <!--product-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 00000040305783
name: John Player Special Gold
family: family/john-player-special
default_observation: de-2016
summary: German John Player Special Gold filter cigarettes, 19 in a flip-top box, recorded in 2016 with EAN-8 40305783, tar 6, nicotine 0.5 and a price of €5.20.
brand: brand/john-player-special
category: category/10000185
country_of_sale: DE
piece_count: 19
pack_format: flip-top box with cellophane
last_seen: 2016
last_seen_note: German pack recorded by the zigsam.at collection in 2016
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/imperial-brands | | | | | sourced | ^ib-brands | Imperial Brands lists JPS among its own cigarette brands |
| manufactured_by | company/reemtsma-cigarettenfabriken | DE | | | | derived | ^zigsam2 | The collector names the producer of this German 2016 pack as "Imperial Tobacco Germany"; Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH of Hamburg is the Imperial company that names itself in the imprint of the German JPS site jps.de |
<!--/relations-->
## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price |
| ------- | ------- | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | --------- | ------ | -------- |
| DE | sourced | ^zigsam2 | Collector's record of a German 2016 John Player Special Gold pack of 19 filter cigarettes with barcode 40305783 and the price 5.20 € printed on the cellophane | 2016 | | | EUR 5.20 |
| DE | sourced | ^tcw-list | Wholesale price list of Tobacco & Candyworld, Hamm: "John Player Gold 19er", sold in cartons of 10 x 19 at a retail price of 5.20 € per pack, pack EAN 40305783 and carton EAN 4030400057928 | 2017 | | | EUR 5.20 |
<!--/markets-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| JPS Gold | search | | | |
| John Player Gold 19er | search | | | |
| John Player Special Gold 19 | search | | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Specifications <!--specifications-->
| property | value | unit | source | note | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method | qualifier |
| -------- | ----- | ---- | -------- | ----------------------------- | ----------- | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | --------- |
| Tar | 6 | | ^zigsam2 | Unit not stated by the source | de-2016 | | 6 | | known | printed | exact |
| Nicotine | 0.5 | | ^zigsam2 | Unit not stated by the source | de-2016 | | 0.5 | | 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-2016 | German pack, 2016 | label | DE | | | | 2016 | supported | | | | ^zigsam2 | Collector's record: John Player Special Gold, 19 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane, "5.20 19 STK" printed on the cellophane; tar 6, nicotine 0.5; producer Imperial Tobacco Germany | | | 19 | flip-top box with cellophane | |
<!--/observations-->
## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain | state | detail | source |
| ----------- | -------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- |
| | relationships | unknown | No source names the GS1 licensee of EAN-8 40305783, 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-2016 | specifications | unknown | The collection gives tar and nicotine as bare numbers without units, so the rows keep no unit | ^zigsam2 |
| | markets | stale | The German records are from 2016 and a wholesale list uploaded in 2017; whether the pack is still sold is not established | |
| | images | unknown | No freely licensed photograph of this pack was found: the zigsam.at pack photographs carry no licence | ^zigsam2 |
<!--/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. Two independent sources print the barcode, the zigsam.at cigarette-pack collector's catalogue and a Tobacco & Candyworld wholesale price list; brand ownership from the Imperial Brands brand page, the German operating company from the jps.de imprint.
<!--/research-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| zigsam2 | http://www.zigsam.at/B_JohnPlayerSpecial.htm | John Player Special - regular packs since 2016 | 2026-09-25 | zigsam.at cigarette pack collection | other | | | John Player Special Gold, Germany 2016, 19 | | | |
| tcw-list | https://silo.tips/download/preis-artikel-liste | Preis / Artikel Liste (Tobacco & Candyworld, Hamm) | 2026-09-25 | Tobacco & Candyworld | retailer | | 100382 | Zigaretten, item 100382 "John Player Gold 19er"; uploaded to silo.tips 2017-09-18 | | | http://www.tobacco-candyworld.de |
| 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 |
| jps-de | https://jps.de/impressum/ | Impressum, jps.de | 2026-09-25 | Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH | manufacturer | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
John Player Special Gold is a filter cigarette sold in Germany in a flip-top box of 19 under the EAN-8 barcode 40305783.[^zigsam2] A cigarette-pack collection records the pack in 2016 with "5.20 19 STK" printed on the cellophane, tar 6 and nicotine 0.5, and names Imperial Tobacco Germany as the producer.[^zigsam2] A German tobacco wholesaler in Hamm listed the same barcode as "John Player Gold 19er", sold in cartons of ten packs at a retail price of 5.20 € a pack.[^tcw-list] The John Player Special line comes from John Player & Sons of Nottingham, part of Imperial Tobacco since 1901, and belongs to Imperial Brands, which launched it in the United Kingdom in 1970.[^wp-players][^ib-brands] In Germany the brand is run by Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH of Hamburg.[^jps-de]
The same collection records a Greek John Player Special Gold pack of 20 cigarettes from 2015 under another barcode, 4030600102039.[^zigsam2]
<!--/about-->