IMPERIAL BRANDS

Imperial Brands: News
August 2026: Imperial Brands to Cut Thousands of Jobs in Major US and European Restructuring Imperial Brands is preparing to eliminate thousands of jobs across its operations in the United States and Europe, marking one of the company’s largest workforce reductions in recent years as it maneuvers to protect operating

Imperial Brands: H1 2026 Results
Ahead of the H1 2026 Earnings release Date: May 12, 2026 (Tuesday), before the bell Guidance – H1 2026: Low single-digit growth in tobacco & NGP net revenue in H1 2026, driven by robust pricing, low single-digit combustible volume decline and mid-to-high single-digit NGP net revenue growth. Adjusted operating profit to be

Imperial Brands: Trading Update – H1 2026
Headline: “FY26 guidance reiterated, but quality of the print looks weak” Imperial Brands: H1 2026 Trading Update – Key Points – Guidance reaffirmed: FY26 outlook unchanged, with low-single-digit tobacco growth, double-digit NGP growth, 3–5% EBIT growth, at least high-single-digit EPS growth, and more than £2.2 billion FCF – H1 broadly

Imperial Brands: Manufacturing
Three key trends force tobacco companies to continuously re-assess and optimize their manufacturing footprint: (1) Cost savings: Transferring labor intensive operations to lower-cost countries within a certain geography (2) Geographical re-balancing: Fast-declining cigarette volume in the Western markets vs. Stable (even, increasing) cigarette volume in the emerging markets (especially, in

Credit Ratings: Imperial Brands
December 2025: Fitch Affirms Imperial Brands’ “BBB” Credit Rating. Outlook Stable Fitch Ratings affirmed Imperial Brands’s long-term issuer default rating (IDR) and senior unsecured instrument rating at “BBB”. The outlook on the IDR is Stable. The rating reflects Imperial’s concentration on the cash-generative, profitable yet mature combustible tobacco markets. Pricing

Imperial: FY25 Results
– Tobacco & NGP Net revenue up +4.1% on a constant FX basis to £8.32 billion (vs. +3% exp.) – Adjusted Operating profit up +4.6% to £3.99 billion (vs. +4.3% exp.), Adjusting items: Amortisation and impairment of acquired intangibles (£369 million), discontinuation of Langenhagen operations (£101 million), 2030 Strategy implementation

Imperial: FY25 Pre-close Trading Update
On track to deliver FY25 guidance. £1.45 billion share buyback in FY26, to completed no later than 28 October 2026 (+16% increase compared to £1.25 billion in FY25). FY25 Results to be announced on November 18, 2025 FY25 guidance stated in May 2025: Low-single digit tobacco & NGP net revenue

Imperial Brands: H1 2025 Results
CEO Transition: Stefan Bomhard to be succeeded by Lukas Paravicini (CFO) as CEO on October 1, 2025. Lukas to be succeeded by Murray McGowan (Chief Strategy & Development Officer) as CFO Top-line & Bottom-line results Adjusted: at constant currencies – Volume: -3.2% (to 87Bn sticks), reflecting the wider industry decline

Share Buybacks: Imperial Brands
May 2025: Imperial Brands initiates the second buyback tranche of up to £625 million Following the completion of the first £625 million tranche of the current share repurchase program, Imperial Brands entered into an irrevocable & non-discretionary arrangement with Barclays to execute the second tranche: £625 million of shares to be repurchased commencing from May 1, 2025

Imperial Brands: 2025 Capital Markets Day
Markets Day: 2030 Strategy to Drive Shareholder Returns Two core objectives: 1- Drive sustainable value in combustibles: Continue focus on top-5 markets (USA, Germany, UK, Spain and Australia) which represent c. 70% of adjusted tobacco operating profit. Aim to maintain aggregate market share across these five markets to drive sustainable

Imperial Brands: FY24 Results
Expectations ahead of the release: Sell-side expects +2.9% tobacco & NGP revenue and +4.3% adjusted profit growth in FY24. Latest guidance: At the FY24 Pre-close Trading Update (October 8, 2024), Imperial Brands reaffirmed its FY24 guidance: an acceleration in tobacco and NGP net revenue growth (i.e. low single-digit growth; 1%-3%)

Imperial: FY24 Pre-close Trading Update
Expectations – Ahead of the release: Sell-side expects +2.7% tobacco & NGP revenue and +4.3% adjusted profit growth. Imperial’s latest FY24 guidance is low single-digit (1%-3%) tobacco & NGP net revenue growth and close to the middle of the mid-single digit (5%) operating profit growth as the tobacco pricing and

Imperial: H1 2024 Results
Top-line & Bottom-line results Adjusted: at constant currencies – Volume: -6.3% (to 89.9Bn sticks), reflecting the wider industry decline in the markets where Imperial Brands is present (“established footprint”) – Strong tobacco pricing (+8.6%) more than offsetting volume declines – Revenue: +2.8% (NGP revenue: +16.8%, driven by scale-up in launch

Imperial: H1 ’24 Trading Update
Imperial Brands confirms that is is on track to meet H1 and FY24 guidance: – strong tobacco pricing (more than offsetting industry volume pressures in certain markets) and stable aggregate share in the top-five combustible markets (i.e. share gains in the US, Spain and Australia, broadly offsetting declines in Germany

Imperial: H1 ’24 Trading Update – Preview
Imperial Brands will release a pre-close trading update for the first half of FY24 (October 2023 – March 2024) on April 9, 2024. Imperial’s FY23 results (October 2022 – September 2023) were characterized by robust combustible pricing (pricing: +11%, mix: -3%; total price/mix: +8%) and stringent cost control measures more

Imperial Brands: FY23 Results
Top-line & Bottom-line results Adjusted: at constant currencies, excluding Russia – Volume: -7.1% (-10.4%, including the Russia exit; weakness in US mass market cigars and against a stronger prior year comparison) – Robust combustible pricing: +11% (partially offset by -3% in product mix, driven primarily by mass market cigars and

Imperial: Trading Update
(October 5, 2023) Imperial Brands confirms that it is on track to deliver FY23 guidance and announces further £1.1Bn share buyback (~8% of share capital). Imperial repurchased 52.1Mn shares (~5.5% of share capital, £1.0Bn in total) in FY23. Key highlights from the announcement: – Single-digit tobacco segment revenue growth and

Imperial: Trading Update – Preview
Imperial Brands will provide a pre-close trading update for the FY23 (October 2022 – September 2023) on October 5, 2023. In the first half of FY23, Imperial reported +0.6% revenue growth and -0.3% adj. operating profit decline for the Tobacco segment – excluding the Russia exit and at constant currency.

Imperial Brands: H1 2023 Results
Top-line & Bottom-line results Adjusted: at constant currencies, excluding Russia – Volume: -6.8% (including the Russia exit, -12.7%) – Robust combustible pricing: +9.3% (partially offset by -2.5% in product mix, driven primarily by adverse product mix in the USA; total price/mix: +6.8%) – Revenue: +0.6% (NGP revenue: +19.8%, driven by

Imperial Brands: Interim Update
Guidance On track to meet full-year guidance H1 2023 Revenue (excl. the impact of Russia exit) & Operating Profit: at a similar level to H1 2022 FY23 Revenue: low single-digit growth Operating Profit: mid-single digit growth over the next 3 years Key Highlights Stable aggregate SoM across top-5 combustible markets:

Imperial Brands: FY22 Results
Top-line & Bottom-line results Adjusted, at constant currencies Net revenue up +1.5% (NGP net revenue up +10.8%) Operating profit up +1.8% EPS up +4.9% Key Highlights – Aggregate SoM for top-5 combustible markets up 35bps (note: larger competitors are largely funneling their investment to RRP/NGPs) – 90bps share gain in