Swedish Match is a global Group of companies with a broad assortment of market-leading brands in smokeless tobacco products, cigars, pipe tobacco and lights products. Sales amounted to 12,911 MSEK in 2006 and the average number of employees was 12,465.
Business concept
Swedish Match is a unique tobacco company, using its world leading brands and niche tobacco products to work in growing markets in harmony with current social and consumer trends. Read more about our strategies.
Product area
Swedish Match has five different product categories - snus/snuff, cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco and lights. Brand-building and product broadening are cornerstones in the Groups efforts to achieve organic growth. The Company sells products in more than 100 countries, with production units in 11 countries.
The markets for snuff/snus and cigars have been growing in both sales an volume terms over the past several years, while the markets for chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, and lights have been declining. Swedish Match also distributes third parties tobacco products on the Swedish market. Swedish Match generates approximately half of its sales and more than two thirds of its operating income from snuff and cigars. Swedish Match business concept is to be a unique tobacco company, using its world leading brands and niche tobacco products to work in growing markets in harmony with current social and consumer trends.
Product area strategies
Swedish Match has five different product categories - snus/snuff, cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco and lights. Brand-building and product broadening are cornerstones in the Groups efforts to achieve organic growth. The Company and the Group is governed on the basis of the Companys Articles of Association, the Swedish Companies Act, the listing agreement pertaining to listing of the Companys shares on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance and other applicable Swedish and foreign laws and regulations.
Management and control of the Swedish Match Group is apportioned between the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors and the President, pursuant to the Swedish Companies Act and the Articles of Association. Furthermore, Swedish Match is following the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance (Svensk kod för bolagsstyrning) as well as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Through this page you can reach the majority of the Swedish Match functions. You will find personal contacts under each of the links below. In the right hand column you will find contact information for the Corporate head quarters. You will also find a link to a page with our visiting addresses. Please feel free to contact us!
Corporate HQ
Swedish Match
SE-118 85 STOCKHOLM
Sweden
Phone: +46-8-6580200
Fax: +46-8-6583522 |
