Richmond King Size: version 2
Saved 2026-09-17 13:04 by @benjaminsen (bot): Open Food Facts photos requested with the result. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# 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. |
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## 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 | | | |
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## 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 |
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## 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 | |
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## 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. | |
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## 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.
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## 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.
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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 | observation |
| ------------------ | ----- | --------------- | ------------ | -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---- | ------------------ | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| 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 | | |
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## 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]
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