Richmond King Size: version 1
Saved 2026-09-17 13:04 by @benjaminsen (bot): 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.. Current is v2.
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| 1 | 1 | # Richmond King Size <!--product--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | gtin: 00000050433919 | |
| 5 | 5 | name: Richmond King Size | |
| 6 | 6 | default_observation: front-2023 | |
| 7 | 7 | summary: Bright blue king-size cigarette pack of Imperial Tobacco's British value brand Richmond, carrying the text-only health warning UK law required before standardised packaging. | |
| 8 | 8 | brand: brand/richmond | |
| 9 | 9 | category: category/10000185 | |
| 10 | 10 | country_of_sale: GB | |
| 11 | 11 | pack_format: flip-top box | |
| 12 | 12 | status: discontinued | |
| 13 | 13 | last_seen_note: No dated retail listing printing this barcode was found; the most recent evidence is a photograph of a pack taken on 9 May 2023, years after the livery it carries left production. | |
| 14 | 14 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| 16 | 16 | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 17 | 17 | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 18 | 18 | | ------------------- | ------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 19 | 19 | | brand_owner_at_sale | company/imperial-tobacco | GB | | | | sourced | ^wp-richmond | Wikipedia states Richmond is owned and manufactured by Imperial Tobacco; Imperial Tobacco Limited is the group's UK operating company, Companies House 01860181. | | |
| 20 | 20 | | manufactured_by | company/imperial-tobacco | GB | | | | sourced | ^wp-richmond | Same statement; no factory or establishment is named for this pack and none is printed on the surface photographed. | | |
| 21 | 21 | <!--/relations--> | |
| 22 | 22 | ||
| 23 | 23 | ## Markets <!--markets--> | |
| 24 | 24 | | country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price | | |
| 25 | 25 | | ------- | ------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------ | ----- | | |
| 26 | 26 | | GB | derived | ^wp-richmond | Wikipedia says Richmond is sold mainly in the United Kingdom; the barcode is a GS1 UK EAN-8 and the front photograph carries the English general warning that UK regulations prescribed. No retail listing printing this barcode was found. | 2026-09-17 | | | | | |
| 27 | 27 | <!--/markets--> | |
| 28 | 28 | ||
| 29 | 29 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 30 | 30 | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 31 | 31 | | ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 32 | 32 | | Richmond Kingsize | search | en | | | | |
| 33 | 33 | | Richmond | search | en | | | | |
| 34 | 34 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 35 | 35 | ||
| 36 | 36 | ## Specifications <!--specifications--> | |
| 37 | 37 | | property | value | unit | source | note | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method | qualifier | | |
| 38 | 38 | | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ---- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | --------- | | |
| 39 | 39 | | Front health warning | Smoking seriously harms you and others around you | | ^offphoto | The general warning prescribed for tobacco packs sold in the United Kingdom by the 2002 Regulations, replaced by a combined picture warning in 2016. | front-2023 | | | | known | printed | exact | | |
| 40 | 40 | | Pack livery | Blue pack with a white wordmark and a crown device | | ^offphoto | Wikipedia records the brand's bright blue packaging and its 2006 restyle from a serif to a sans-serif wordmark, which this pack shows. | front-2023 | | | | known | printed | exact | | |
| 41 | 41 | <!--/specifications--> | |
| 42 | 42 | ||
| 43 | 43 | ## Observations <!--observations--> | |
| 44 | 44 | | 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 | | |
| 45 | 45 | | ---------- | ----------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ------------ | ------------ | | |
| 46 | 46 | | front-2023 | Front of the blue Richmond King Size pack | label | GB | en | | | 2023-05-09 | supported | | | | ^offphoto | Read from the 3096x4128 upload: a blue flip-top pack with a crown device, RICHMOND in sans-serif capitals over a smaller variant line that is not legible, and the white general warning. The pack is hand-held and soft-focused, so the side panels, the yield figures and the cigarette count cannot be read. | | | | flip-top box | | | |
| 47 | 47 | <!--/observations--> | |
| 48 | 48 | ||
| 49 | 49 | ## Research gaps <!--research_gaps--> | |
| 50 | 50 | | observation | domain | state | detail | source | | |
| 51 | 51 | | ----------- | -------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------- | | |
| 52 | 52 | | front-2023 | packaging | unknown | The cigarette count is not legible on the only photograph and no listing printing this EAN-8 states it. An aggregator lists a separate EAN-8, 50433902, for a Richmond King Size 10-pack, which suggests this number is the 20, but no source says so. | ^buycott | | |
| 53 | 53 | | front-2023 | specifications | unknown | UK packs of this generation printed tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide yields on a side panel; only the front is photographed, so none of the three figures can be recorded. | ^offphoto | | |
| 54 | 54 | | | relationships | unknown | An EAN-8 carries no GS1 company prefix, so nothing in the number names a licensee and no gs1_prefix_owner row is recorded. An aggregator reports the GS1 name for this number as Numark Limited of Tamworth, a pharmacy buying group unrelated to the brand, which is not usable evidence. | ^buycott | | |
| 55 | 55 | | | markets | disputed | Open Products Facts tags the record Norway. The pack read here is a United Kingdom pack, so the country field follows the pack; the Norwegian tag is most likely where the contributor photographed it rather than a market. | ^off | | |
| 56 | 56 | | | markets | unknown | No Amazon.co.uk listing exists for this article: a search for the barcode and for the name returned only cigarette accessories, and the storefront does not sell cigarettes. | | | |
| 57 | 57 | | | identity | unknown | No dated retail listing printing this barcode was found, so last_seen is empty; the newest evidence for the article is the 2023 photograph of a pack whose livery had already left production. | | | |
| 58 | 58 | <!--/research_gaps--> | |
| 59 | 59 | ||
| 60 | 60 | ## Research <!--research--> | |
| 61 | 61 | structure_version: 2 | |
| 62 | 62 | reviewed_on: 2026-09-17 | |
| 63 | 63 | note: New entry built from the Open Products Facts record and its front photograph, Wikipedia, UK tobacco labelling regulations, Companies House, GLEIF and a current UK wholesaler listing of the successor article. | |
| 64 | 64 | <!--/research--> | |
| 65 | 65 | ||
| 66 | 66 | ## Meta <!--meta--> | |
| 67 | 67 | title: Richmond King Size (EAN-8 50433919) | |
| 68 | 68 | description: Richmond King Size cigarettes, the blue Imperial Tobacco value pack sold in the United Kingdom under barcode 50433919 before standardised packaging. | |
| 69 | 69 | <!--/meta--> | |
| 70 | 70 | ||
| 71 | + | ## Images <!--images--> | |
| 72 | + | | 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 | observation | | |
| 73 | + | | ------------------ | ----- | --------------- | ------------ | -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---- | ------------------ | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ----------- | | |
| 74 | + | | front-577b3285.jpg | front | open-food-facts | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Products Facts contributors | https://world.openproductsfacts.org/product/0000050433919 | 2026-09-17 | | 0000050433919 | 1 | https://images.openproductsfacts.org/images/products/000/005/043/3919/1.jpg | | 2026-09-17T13:04:22.233Z | 0000050433919 | barcode | 1 | 3096 | 4128 | 1200 | 1600 | | | | |
| 75 | + | <!--/images--> | |
| 76 | + | ||
| 71 | 77 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 72 | 78 | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 73 | 79 | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | -------------------------------- | -------- | | |
| 74 | 80 | | off | https://world.openproductsfacts.org/product/50433919/richmond-king-size | Open Products Facts: Richmond King Size | 2026-09-17 | Open Products Facts | catalogue | | 50433919 | | ODbL | Open Products Facts contributors | | | |
| 75 | 81 | | offphoto | https://images.openproductsfacts.org/images/products/000/005/043/3919/1.jpg | Front photograph of the pack uploaded to Open Products Facts | 2026-09-17 | Open Products Facts | pack | 2023-05-09 | 1 | Front of pack | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Products Facts contributors | | | |
| 76 | 82 | | wp-richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_(cigarette) | Richmond (cigarette) | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | | | |
| 77 | 83 | | uksi2002 | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3041/made | The Tobacco Products (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale) (Safety) Regulations 2002 | 2026-09-17 | legislation.gov.uk | publication | 2002 | SI 2002/3041 | General warnings | OGL v3.0 | | | | |
| 78 | 84 | | bestway | https://www.bestwaywholesale.co.uk/product/625813-1 | Bestway Wholesale: Richmond Original Cigarettes 20 Pack | 2026-09-17 | Bestway Wholesale | retailer | | 625813 | Retail EAN 5000431026117 | | | | | |
| 79 | 85 | | oldbp | https://web.archive.org/web/20080928225650/http://en.barcodepedia.com/50433919/richmond-kingsize | Barcodepedia 2008 capture: Richmond Kingsize, EAN8 50433919 | 2026-09-17 | Barcodepedia (Wayback) | catalogue | 2008-09-28 | | | | | | | |
| 80 | 86 | | buycott | https://www.buycott.com/upc/50433919 | Buycott EAN lookup 50433919: Richmond King Size | 2026-09-17 | Buycott | catalogue | | | | | | | | |
| 81 | 87 | | ch-itl | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=imperial+tobacco+limited | Companies House search: Imperial Tobacco Limited | 2026-09-17 | Companies House | registry | | 01860181 | | | | | | |
| 82 | 88 | | gleif-itl | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71/direct-parent | GLEIF: direct parent of Imperial Tobacco Limited | 2026-09-17 | GLEIF | registry | | 2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71 | | CC0 | | | | |
| 83 | 89 | <!--/references--> | |
| 84 | 90 | ||
| 85 | 91 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 86 | 92 | Richmond King Size is a British value-brand cigarette, catalogued here under the EAN-8 barcode 50433919. Richmond is owned and manufactured by Imperial Tobacco, which reintroduced the name to the United Kingdom in 1999 as a value brand against Mayfair, Sovereign and Park Road; its King Size and Superkings variants became the fifth and fourth best-selling cigarettes in the country.[^wp-richmond] The pack recorded here is the bright blue livery, restyled in 2006 to a sans-serif wordmark,[^wp-richmond] and it carries the white general warning "Smoking seriously harms you and others around you" that United Kingdom regulations prescribed for tobacco packs.[^offphoto][^uksi2002] Standardised packaging removed brand colours from UK packs on 20 May 2016,[^wp-richmond] and the 20-cigarette Richmond Original pack a UK wholesaler lists today carries a different barcode,[^bestway] so this article is recorded as discontinued. | |
| 87 | 93 | ||
| 88 | 94 | The old Barcodepedia catalogued the barcode in 2008 as "Richmond Kingsize"; its "Produced in United Kingdom by Unknown producer" line was generated from the number, not read from a pack.[^oldbp] Imperial Tobacco Limited is registered in England as company 01860181 at 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol,[^ch-itl] and GLEIF records Imperial Brands PLC as its parent.[^gleif-itl] The Open Products Facts record that holds the photograph is incomplete and tagged Norway, which the pack itself contradicts.[^off] | |
| 89 | 95 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Richmond King Size <!--product-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 00000050433919
name: Richmond King Size
default_observation: front-2023
summary: Bright blue king-size cigarette pack of Imperial Tobacco's British value brand Richmond, carrying the text-only health warning UK law required before standardised packaging.
brand: brand/richmond
category: category/10000185
country_of_sale: GB
pack_format: flip-top box
status: discontinued
last_seen_note: No dated retail listing printing this barcode was found; the most recent evidence is a photograph of a pack taken on 9 May 2023, years after the livery it carries left production.
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------------- | ------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/imperial-tobacco | GB | | | | sourced | ^wp-richmond | Wikipedia states Richmond is owned and manufactured by Imperial Tobacco; Imperial Tobacco Limited is the group's UK operating company, Companies House 01860181. |
| manufactured_by | company/imperial-tobacco | GB | | | | sourced | ^wp-richmond | Same statement; no factory or establishment is named for this pack and none is printed on the surface photographed. |
<!--/relations-->
## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price |
| ------- | ------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------ | ----- |
| GB | derived | ^wp-richmond | Wikipedia says Richmond is sold mainly in the United Kingdom; the barcode is a GS1 UK EAN-8 and the front photograph carries the English general warning that UK regulations prescribed. No retail listing printing this barcode was found. | 2026-09-17 | | | |
<!--/markets-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Richmond Kingsize | search | en | | |
| Richmond | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Specifications <!--specifications-->
| property | value | unit | source | note | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method | qualifier |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ---- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | --------- |
| Front health warning | Smoking seriously harms you and others around you | | ^offphoto | The general warning prescribed for tobacco packs sold in the United Kingdom by the 2002 Regulations, replaced by a combined picture warning in 2016. | front-2023 | | | | known | printed | exact |
| Pack livery | Blue pack with a white wordmark and a crown device | | ^offphoto | Wikipedia records the brand's bright blue packaging and its 2006 restyle from a serif to a sans-serif wordmark, which this pack shows. | front-2023 | | | | 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 |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| front-2023 | Front of the blue Richmond King Size pack | label | GB | en | | | 2023-05-09 | supported | | | | ^offphoto | Read from the 3096x4128 upload: a blue flip-top pack with a crown device, RICHMOND in sans-serif capitals over a smaller variant line that is not legible, and the white general warning. The pack is hand-held and soft-focused, so the side panels, the yield figures and the cigarette count cannot be read. | | | | flip-top box | |
<!--/observations-->
## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain | state | detail | source |
| ----------- | -------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------- |
| front-2023 | packaging | unknown | The cigarette count is not legible on the only photograph and no listing printing this EAN-8 states it. An aggregator lists a separate EAN-8, 50433902, for a Richmond King Size 10-pack, which suggests this number is the 20, but no source says so. | ^buycott |
| front-2023 | specifications | unknown | UK packs of this generation printed tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide yields on a side panel; only the front is photographed, so none of the three figures can be recorded. | ^offphoto |
| | relationships | unknown | An EAN-8 carries no GS1 company prefix, so nothing in the number names a licensee and no gs1_prefix_owner row is recorded. An aggregator reports the GS1 name for this number as Numark Limited of Tamworth, a pharmacy buying group unrelated to the brand, which is not usable evidence. | ^buycott |
| | markets | disputed | Open Products Facts tags the record Norway. The pack read here is a United Kingdom pack, so the country field follows the pack; the Norwegian tag is most likely where the contributor photographed it rather than a market. | ^off |
| | markets | unknown | No Amazon.co.uk listing exists for this article: a search for the barcode and for the name returned only cigarette accessories, and the storefront does not sell cigarettes. | |
| | identity | unknown | No dated retail listing printing this barcode was found, so last_seen is empty; the newest evidence for the article is the 2023 photograph of a pack whose livery had already left production. | |
<!--/research_gaps-->
## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-17
note: New entry built from the Open Products Facts record and its front photograph, Wikipedia, UK tobacco labelling regulations, Companies House, GLEIF and a current UK wholesaler listing of the successor article.
<!--/research-->
## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Richmond King Size (EAN-8 50433919)
description: Richmond King Size cigarettes, the blue Imperial Tobacco value pack sold in the United Kingdom under barcode 50433919 before standardised packaging.
<!--/meta-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | -------------------------------- | -------- |
| off | https://world.openproductsfacts.org/product/50433919/richmond-king-size | Open Products Facts: Richmond King Size | 2026-09-17 | Open Products Facts | catalogue | | 50433919 | | ODbL | Open Products Facts contributors | |
| offphoto | https://images.openproductsfacts.org/images/products/000/005/043/3919/1.jpg | Front photograph of the pack uploaded to Open Products Facts | 2026-09-17 | Open Products Facts | pack | 2023-05-09 | 1 | Front of pack | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Products Facts contributors | |
| wp-richmond | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_(cigarette) | Richmond (cigarette) | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| uksi2002 | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3041/made | The Tobacco Products (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale) (Safety) Regulations 2002 | 2026-09-17 | legislation.gov.uk | publication | 2002 | SI 2002/3041 | General warnings | OGL v3.0 | | |
| bestway | https://www.bestwaywholesale.co.uk/product/625813-1 | Bestway Wholesale: Richmond Original Cigarettes 20 Pack | 2026-09-17 | Bestway Wholesale | retailer | | 625813 | Retail EAN 5000431026117 | | | |
| oldbp | https://web.archive.org/web/20080928225650/http://en.barcodepedia.com/50433919/richmond-kingsize | Barcodepedia 2008 capture: Richmond Kingsize, EAN8 50433919 | 2026-09-17 | Barcodepedia (Wayback) | catalogue | 2008-09-28 | | | | | |
| buycott | https://www.buycott.com/upc/50433919 | Buycott EAN lookup 50433919: Richmond King Size | 2026-09-17 | Buycott | catalogue | | | | | | |
| ch-itl | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=imperial+tobacco+limited | Companies House search: Imperial Tobacco Limited | 2026-09-17 | Companies House | registry | | 01860181 | | | | |
| gleif-itl | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71/direct-parent | GLEIF: direct parent of Imperial Tobacco Limited | 2026-09-17 | GLEIF | registry | | 2138001FO7RFHCTSZC71 | | CC0 | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Richmond King Size is a British value-brand cigarette, catalogued here under the EAN-8 barcode 50433919. Richmond is owned and manufactured by Imperial Tobacco, which reintroduced the name to the United Kingdom in 1999 as a value brand against Mayfair, Sovereign and Park Road; its King Size and Superkings variants became the fifth and fourth best-selling cigarettes in the country.[^wp-richmond] The pack recorded here is the bright blue livery, restyled in 2006 to a sans-serif wordmark,[^wp-richmond] and it carries the white general warning "Smoking seriously harms you and others around you" that United Kingdom regulations prescribed for tobacco packs.[^offphoto][^uksi2002] Standardised packaging removed brand colours from UK packs on 20 May 2016,[^wp-richmond] and the 20-cigarette Richmond Original pack a UK wholesaler lists today carries a different barcode,[^bestway] so this article is recorded as discontinued.
The old Barcodepedia catalogued the barcode in 2008 as "Richmond Kingsize"; its "Produced in United Kingdom by Unknown producer" line was generated from the number, not read from a pack.[^oldbp] Imperial Tobacco Limited is registered in England as company 01860181 at 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol,[^ch-itl] and GLEIF records Imperial Brands PLC as its parent.[^gleif-itl] The Open Products Facts record that holds the photograph is incomplete and tagged Norway, which the pack itself contradicts.[^off]
<!--/about-->