by Felix Richter, Statista.com
— this post authored by Dyfed Loesche
The third largest player in the worldwide tobacco market, British American Tobacco (NYSE:BAT), has announced to take over the fourth largest firm Reynolds Tobacco.
BAT had already been a major stakeholder (42.2 percent) of Reynolds and now wants to pay $49.4 billion for its complete acquisition.
Listed tobacco companies worldwide in 2016, based on enterprise value (in bilion U.S. dollars).
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