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! style="font-weight:bold;width=10%" |Organization/Company
! style="font-weight:bold;width=10%" |Tobacco company relationship
! style="font-weight:bold;width=20%" |Relationship type
! style="font-weight:bold;width=20%" |Evidence of past or present formalized relationship
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|TR Consumer Forum  2022
|Sponsorship
|The event saw attendees from multiple international companies including Imperial Tobacco. <ref>TR Business, [https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.trbusiness.com/regional-news/international/leading-lights-in-travel-retail-confirm-participation-in-tr-consumer-forum-2022/220596# Updated: Leaders in DF&TR join TR Consumer Forum], 30 June 2022, Accessed 22 August 2022</ref>
|2022
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|Tax Free World Association (TFWA) World Exhibition & Conference 
|Event
|2021
|Imperial Brands exhibited in Cannes at the Tax Free World Association (TFWA) World Exhibition & Conference to showcase. <ref>DFNI, [http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.dfnionline.com/latest-news/imperial-brands-calls-closer-industry-collaboration-25-10-2021/ Imperial Brands calls on closer industry collaboration], 25 October 2021, 9 November 2021</ref>
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|Cornerstone
|Lobbying
|2021
|Cornerstone added Imperial Tobacco in Australia to its client list in in January 2021. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.theage.com.au/national/choir-master-jonathon-welch-hits-bum-note-20211010-p58yrv.html Choir master Jonathon Welch hits bum note], ''The Age'', 11 October 2021, Accessed 9 November 2021</ref>
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|UN Global Compact
|CSR
|2021
|The United Nations Global Compact Ukraine, an initiative promoting responsible business practices, recently named international tobacco giant Imperial Tobacco as one of “the most responsible and far-sighted companies in Ukraine.” <ref>[http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.kyivpost.com/business/big-tobacco-tries-to-improve-its-image-through-greenwashing.html], ''Kyiv Post'', 4 October 2021, Accessed 9 November 2021 </ref>
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|Retailers Against Smuggling
|Lobbying
|Retailers Against Smuggling is an Irish organization that gathers retailers' efforts to prevent illicit trade in the country. It is funded by the Irish Tobacco Manufacturers Advisory Committee, composed of JTI Ireland, Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco subsidiaries.<ref>Tobacco Tactics website, [https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.tobaccotactics.org/index.php?title=Lobby_Groups Lobby Group], Accessed 12 February 2020 </ref>
|2019
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|International Chamber of Commerce
|Lobbying 
|This Paris-based organization was founded in 1919 and bills itself as the world's largest business organization. It regularly issues reports sympathetic to the tobacco industry and lobbied against plain packaging proposals. British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and Philip Morris International sit on its influential anti counterfeiting and piracy initiative. <ref>Tobacco Tactics website, [https://web.archive.org/save/https://tobaccotactics.org/index.php?title=International_Chamber_of_Commerce%20International Chamber of Commerce], Accessed 12 February 2020 </ref>
|2019
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|Digital Coding & Tracking Association (DCTA)
|Members
|The Digital Coding and Tracking Association (DCTA) is a front group, launched in 2013 by the four multinational tobacco companies: British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and Philip Morris International. The DCTA has promoted the industry’s tobacco tracking and tracing technology, Codentify, often without disclosing its relationship to the tobacco industry.<ref>Tobacco Tactics website, [https://web.archive.org/save/https://tobaccotactics.org/index.php?title=Digital_Coding_%26_Tracking_Association_(DCTA) DCTA], Accessed 12 February 2020 </ref>
|2019
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|Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)
|Audit
|Imperial Brands appointed EY as its auditors at the 2019 AGM. <ref>Investegate,[https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.investegate.co.uk/imperial-brands-plc/rns/conclusion-of-audit-tender/201903011332376327R/ Imperial Brands PLC], 1 March 2019, Accessed 18 May 2021</ref>
|2021
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|PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
|Audit
|PwC were Imperial Tobacco's auditors until 2019.  <ref name="IB_2017_AR">Statista, [https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.statista.com/topics/3221/imperial-brands-plc/ Imperial Brands - Statistics & Facts], p. 43, 71, Accessed 16 September 2018 </ref>
|2019
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|KPMG
|Audit
|KPMG LLP UK prepared a report on Illicit tobacco in New Zealand for Imperial Tobacco New Zealand Limited.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/save/https://home.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/uk/pdf/2018/07/new_zealand_Illicit_trade_in_tobacco.pdf Illicit tobacco in New Zealand 2017 Full Year Report] KPMG, May 2018, p. 2, Accessed 31 October 2018 </ref>

A KPMG conducted a study for British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and Philip Morris International that revealed one in every ten cigarettes consumed in the European Union in 2013 were illicit. <ref> Japan Tobacco International, [https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.jti.com/our-views/newsroom/one-ten-cigarettes-consumed-eu-2013-were-illegal-dramatic-rise-consumption One in Ten Cigarettes Consumed in the EU in 2013 Were Illegal; Dramatic Rise in Consumption of ‘Illicit Whites’], June 2014, Accessed 31 October 2018 </ref>
|2017  
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|Pinsent Masons LLP
|Litigation
|Pinsent Masons LLP provided legal advice in respect of the operation of the Group’s employee share plans. {{r|IB_2017_AR|p=71}}
|2017
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|Allen & Overy LLP
|Litigation
|Allen & Overy LLP  is available to provide legal advice to Imperial Tobacco's Renumeration Committee as and when required. It was not used for remuneration-related advice during the financial year. Allen & Overy LLP also provided other legal services to the Group. {{r|IB_2017_AR|p=71}}
|2017
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|The Kangaroo Group
|Lobbying
|The Kangaroo Group promotes free trade across the European Union. In 2017, the Group’s tobacco industry members were listed as Barry Ronan from British American Tobacco, Mario Muller from the Confederation of European Community Cigarette Manufacturers, Alan Hardacre from Imperial Tobacco, Kristof Doms from Philip Morris International and Paolo Bochicchio from Japan Tobacco International. <ref> The Kangaroo Group, [https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.kangaroogroup.de/who-we-are/kangaroo-members/ Kangaroo Members], Accessed 18 September 2019 </ref>
|2020
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