Overview
Lobbying Costs
650,000€
Financial year: Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
4
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Imperial Brands PLC (IMB)
EU Transparency Register
62460931291-40 First registered on 08 Feb 2011
Goals / Remit
Imperial Brands, a FTSE 100 company headquartered in Bristol in the UK, is the parent company of a dynamic international business specialising in tobacco and non-tobacco brands. Imperial Brands consists of five distinct entities: Imperial Tobacco, Tabacalera, ITG Brands, Fontem Ventures and Logista.
Our core business is built around a tobacco portfolio that offers a comprehensive range of cigarettes (e.g. Davidoff, Gauloises), fine cut (e.g. Drum, Golden Virginia) and smokeless tobaccos (e.g. skruf), papers (e.g. Rizla) and cigars (e.g. Montecristo, Cohiba). Through our Fontem Ventures business, we're also developing a portfolio of brands beyond tobacco, including the e-vapour brand blu. Adding to the breadth of our activities is Logista, one of the largest logistics businesses in Europe.Main EU files targeted
Legislation:
• The implementation of Directive 2014/40/EU on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture , presentation, and sale of tobacco and related products.
• Review of Directive 2011/64/EC, on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco.
• Review of Council Directive 2008/118/EC concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC
EU initiatives:
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Tobacco related regulation
• Lobbying Transparency
• Anti-Illicit Trade
• Intellectual Property
• Taxation & customs
• Movement of excisable goods
• Public health
• Secondary legislation (implementing & delegated acts)
• Scientific developments and Better Regulation [science based policy making]Address
Head Office
Winterstoke Road
Bristol BS3 2LL
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Avenue de Cortenbergh 89
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 4 50% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 02 Oct 2019
Name Start date End Date Jesus OLIVARES GUERRERO 14 Dec 2023 13 Dec 2024 Rodion BOGDANOV 14 Dec 2023 13 Dec 2024 Niccolo BALZINI 14 Dec 2023 13 Dec 2024 Jesus OLIVARES GUERRERO 01 Dec 2022 01 Dec 2023 Rodion BOGDANOV 28 Oct 2022 28 Oct 2023 Niccolo BALZINI 28 Oct 2022 28 Oct 2023 Rodion BOGDANOV 28 Oct 2021 28 Oct 2022 Niccolo BALZINI 28 Oct 2021 28 Oct 2022 Ms Lindsay MENNEL KEATING 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Valerio FORCONI 18 Dec 2020 04 Nov 2021 Justyna SMOK-CHAJN 08 Oct 2020 01 Oct 2021 Niccolo BALZINI 08 Oct 2020 08 Oct 2021 Mr Jon HOUSE 07 Oct 2020 07 Oct 2021 Valerio FORCONI 27 Nov 2019 27 Nov 2020 Niccolo BALZINI 04 Oct 2019 03 Oct 2020 Ms Nveed CHAUDHARY 16 May 2019 01 Jun 2020 Justyna SMOK-CHAJN 13 Mar 2019 01 Apr 2020 Valerio FORCONI 30 Nov 2018 27 Nov 2019 Mr Dries MAEBE 30 Nov 2018 01 Dec 2019 Claudia Ungarelli 20 Apr 2018 01 Nov 2018 Maria GEORGIADOU 20 Apr 2018 01 Nov 2018 Valerio FORCONI 27 Oct 2017 20 Oct 2018 Federico TRENTA 27 Oct 2017 01 May 2018 Mr Dries MAEBE 27 Oct 2017 20 Oct 2018 Ms Sarah KOSECKI 17 Oct 2017 19 Apr 2018 Ms Corina Pasol 26 Oct 2016 24 Jan 2017 Alessandro Tschirkov 10 Mar 2015 06 Mar 2016 Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 16 Jan 2015 14 Jan 2016 Ms Louise Day 28 Oct 2014 24 Oct 2015 Alessandro Tschirkov 18 Jan 2014 17 Jan 2015 Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 14 Jan 2014 11 Jan 2015 Ms Giulia Gioffreda 05 Sep 2013 25 May 2014 Mr Istvan KOMOROCZKI 16 Jan 2013 15 Apr 2013 Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 18 Jan 2013 14 Jan 2014 Alessandro Tschirkov 01 Feb 2013 15 Jan 2014 Mr Istvan KOMOROCZKI 02 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013 Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 14 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013 Alessandro Tschirkov 01 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013 Complementary Information
We recruit 2 trainees on a 6-months basis under a 'convention d'immersion professionnelle'.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Valerio Forconi (Head of EU Corporate Affairs, Brussels Office)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Alison Cooper (Chief Executive Officer)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Confederation of EC Cigarette Manufacturers (CECCM)
European Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA)
European Cigar Manufacturers Association (ECMA)
European Rolling Papers Association (ERPA)
European Travel Retail Council (ETRC)
Wirtschaftsrat
Public Affairs CouncilMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
650,000€
Other financial info
This estimate is calculated according to salary costs of IMB Brussels Office staff involved in interest representation, based on the proportion of employee time devoted to these activities. In addition, it includes an estimate of the costs related to interest representation towards the European Institutions by non-Brussels-based employees, also in proportion to their activities. According to the Transparency Register Compliance Guidelines on financial information, this estimate includes fees paid for outsourced activities (i.e. consultancy contract fees). The estimate excludes membership fees to the various trade associations, as those organisations have registered themselves. The list is included in the 'Membership and affiliation' section.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
- Meetings