BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO SWITZERLAND S.A.

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO SWITZERLAND

A highly successful player in the Swiss market, British American Tobacco Switzerland responsibly produces and markets well known and highly successful brands such as Parisienne, Barclay, Lucky Strike, Vogue, Marylong, Select, Dunhill and Cartier. Our portfolio in Switzerland includes some 35 brands, offering consumer choice and appeal to every taste and style.

Our market share is above 43% and growing; in 2003, our factory in Boncourt produced over 10 billion cigarettes of which 60 per cent were for domestic market and 40 per cent for export. We are currently the second largest tobacco company in Switzerland, and our vision is to become number one. High calibre people, effective teamwork, a clear market focus and an innovative business strategy are critical to achievement of this vision.

Today, British American Tobacco Switzerland employs more than 600 people in a number of diverse roles - from key account management, to brand management, to supply chain and logistics, to Manufacturing, to finance, to corporate affairs, to information technology... This includes about 400 employees at the factory in Boncourt (JU), approximately 120 in the commercial and administrative office in Lausanne, and 70 in our field force across Switzerland.

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO GROUP

British American Tobacco is the world's most international tobacco group and the second largest stock market listed tobacco group with a global market share of 14.6 per cent in 2002. We employ over 85'000 people within 180 countries world-wide. We have 85 factories in 66 countries and 23 leaf growing programmes in 22 countries. With over 300 brands in our portfolio, we make the cigarette chosen by almost one in seven of the world's 1 billion adult smokers.

In a fast-moving, ever-competitive consumer business, our vision is to become the world's leading international tobacco group.

We acknowledge that our products pose risks to health and that smoking can be difficult to quit and we recognise the significant responsibilities our business entails. It is our aim, through constructive dialogue with our stakeholders and embedding the principles of corporate social responsibility throughout the British American Tobacco Group, to be recognised as a responsible company in an industry seen as controversial.