Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S: Historical Quarterly Data

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT
No. 20/2016

                                                                                                                                  Copenhagen, 12 May 2016

HISTORICAL QUARTERLY DATA


Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S (the Company) releases the interim report for the period 1 January - 31 March 2016 on 25 May 2016. In the attached company announcement selected historical and quarterly financial numbers for 2015 have been published including numbers for the first quarter of 2015. Please notice all data are reported numbers.

In relation to the publication of the report, scheduled for 25 May at CET 08:00, the Company will host a web-casted conference call for investors and analysts 25 May at CET 10:00. The details will be announced ahead of the call on the company web-site www.st-group.com.

For further information, please contact:


For media inquiries:
Kaspar Bach Habersaat, Director of Group Communications,
phone: +45 7220 7152 or kaspar.bach@st-group.com.

For investor inquiries:
Torben Sand, Head of Investor Relations,
phone: +45 7220 7126 or torben.sand@st-group.com.

About Scandinavian Tobacco Group

Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S with its subsidiaries (the Group) is a world leading producer of cigars and traditional pipe tobacco. The Group also produces fine-cut tobacco and sells tobacco-related accessories. The Group produces and sells 3 billion cigars and 5,000 tonnes of pipe and fine-cut tobacco annually. Scandinavian Tobacco Group believes it is the only company globally with a core strategic focus on production and distribution in all of these tobacco categories.

Scandinavian Tobacco Group holds market-leading positions in the machine-made cigar market in Europe, the handmade cigar market in the US, the online and catalogue retail sales of cigars in the US, the traditional pipe tobacco market globally and in selected fine-cut tobacco markets.

Scandinavian Tobacco Group has a diversified portfolio of more than 200 brands providing a complementary range of established global brands and local champions.  In the cigar segment, the brand portfolio comprises Café Crème, La Paz, Macanudo, CAO, Partagas (US) and Cohiba (US). Pipe tobacco brands include Captain Black, Erinmore, Borkum Riff and W.Ø. Larsen, while leading fine-cut tobacco brands include Bugler, Break, Escort, Bali Shag and Tiedemanns.

As at 31 December 2015, the Group employed approx. 8,100 people in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the US.

For more information please visit www.st-group.com.

Company Announcement 20-2016. Historical Quarterly Data


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Source: Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S via Globenewswire
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