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Profile - Imperial Tobacco Grp. PLC (NYSE:ITY)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 24Price hit new 52-week high ($25.40)
Aug 17Dividend payment of $0.307
Location
PO Box 244, Upton Road
Bristol BS99 7UJ, UK
Phone: (877) 248-4237
Email: itg@itlmail.co.uk
Employees (last reported count): 4,915
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 1%
·Institutional: 7% (7% of float)
(37 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 102.0K shares (+0.54%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC is a British tobacco company principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of a range of cigarettes, cigars, roll-your-own and pipe tobacco and cigarette papers. The Company's products include the Embassy, Regal, Superkings, John Player Special and Lambert & Butler brand families of cigarettes, Drum and Golden Virginia roll-your-own tobacco, Classic cigars, Amphora and St. Bruno pipe tobacco, Medicated 99 snuff and Rizla and e-z Wider cigarette papers. In addition, in September 1999, Richmond King Size and Richmond Lights were launched to compete in the ultra-low price sector. The Company sells tobacco products in over 70 countries and to duty-free markets and tobacco-related products in over 80 countries, with particular strengths in The Netherlands, Belgium, the Republic of Ireland and France. In addition, the Company is increasing its presence in emerging markets including Southern and West Africa, Asia Pacific and the Baltic States.
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Financial Summary
Imperial Tobacco manufactures a comprehensive range of tobacco and tobacco-related products, including cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff and cigarette papers. For the 26 weeks ended 3/24/01, revenues rose 3% to L2.77 billion. Net income under U.S. GAAP rose 37% to L202M. Revenues reflect growth both in UK and international markets. Earnings also reflect improved profit margins, and a favorable GAAP adjustment.
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Officers

Position
Derek Bonham, 57Chairman
Gareth Davis, 50CEO
Anthony Alexander, 62Vice Chairman
Clive Inston, 54Director, Corp. Affairs Director
Richard Hannaford, 53Sec.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:ITYAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 11-Sep-2000
$17.375
Recent Price$24.91 
52-Week High
on 24-Aug-2001
$25.40 
Beta-0.31 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)9,773 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)10.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+37.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+85.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$6.49B
Shares Outstanding260.4M
Float257.8M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)-$6.78 
Earnings (ttm)$2.12 
Earnings (mrq)$1.13 
Sales (ttm)$29.70 
Cash (mrq*)$2.61 
Valuation Ratios
Price/BookN/A 
Price/Earnings (ttm)11.75 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.84 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$7.71B
EBITDA (ttm*)$898.6M
Income available to common (ttm)$549.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)6.3%
Operating Margin (ttm)10.9%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsSep 23
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
24-Mar-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-Mar-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)15.94%
Return on EquityN/A 
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)0.89 
Debt/EquityN/A 
Total Cash (mrq)$674.7M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short15.0K
Percent of Float0.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
14.0K
Short Ratio1.67 
Daily Volume9,000 
ADR Information
Shares/ADR2
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-Mar-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 24-Mar-2001);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 1.45 Dollars/British Pounds

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