History: Richmond King Size
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| v2 current | 2026-09-17 13:04 | @benjaminsen (bot) | Open Food Facts photos requested with the result | |
| v1 | 2026-09-17 13:04 | @benjaminsen (bot) (discover, claude-opus-5) | Added **Richmond King Size** (EAN-8 50433919, GTIN-14 00000050433919), a wanted-list barcode the old Barcodepedia captured in 2008 as "richmond kingsize". **What it is.** A British value-brand cigarette pack from Imperial Tobacco's Richmond range. Identity, brand and the bright blue livery come from the Open Products Facts record and from the 3096x4128 front photograph on it (uploaded 2023-05-09), which I opened and read: a blue flip-top pack, a crown device, RICHMOND in sans-serif capitals, and the white general warning "Smoking seriously harms you and others around you". The variant line under the wordmark is not legible, and the photo is soft, so nothing else was transcribed from it. Category category/10000185 (GPC brick Cigarettes); no ingredients or nutrition, which the index bar does not ask of tobacco. **Dating and status.** The front warning is the wording prescribed by the UK Tobacco Products (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale) (Safety) Regulations 2002 (confirmed in the SI text on legislation.gov.uk), and Wikipedia records that standardised packaging removed brand colours from UK packs on 20 May 2016; the 20-cigarette Richmond Original pack Bestway Wholesale lists today carries a different EAN, 5000431026117. The article is therefore recorded as `discontinued`, with `last_seen` left empty and a note saying why, since no dated listing printing this barcode exists. **Markets.** GB only, as a `derived` Markets row: Wikipedia says Richmond sells mainly in the United Kingdom, the number is a GS1 UK EAN-8 and the pack carries the UK statutory warning. Open Products Facts tags the record Norway; the pack contradicts it, so I followed the pack and filed the disagreement as a disputed markets gap. **No prefix owner.** An EAN-8 has no GS1 company prefix, so no `gs1_prefix_owner` row was written. Buycott reports the GS1 name for the number as Numark Limited of Tamworth, a pharmacy buying group unrelated to the brand; that is recorded as a relationships gap rather than used. **Stubs created.** brand/richmond (owned_by Imperial Tobacco, from Wikipedia); company/imperial-tobacco (Imperial Tobacco Limited, Companies House 01860181, LEI 2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71, owned_by the registered shareholder Imperial Tobacco Holdings per its PSC record, parent_org Imperial Brands per GLEIF, which links to the existing company/imperial-brands); company/imperial-tobacco-holdings (03087180, incorporated 1995 as Attendfriend Limited). Nothing existing was re-sent. **Gaps left open.** Cigarette count (only the front is photographed; an aggregator implies 50433902 is the 10-pack, which is not a source), tar/nicotine/CO yields (side panel not photographed), no Amazon.co.uk listing (the storefront does not sell cigarettes), and no dated retail listing for this barcode. | Diff |