| General info : | | Winfield is an Australian brand of cigarettes, currently owned by multinational company British American Tobacco PLC. Cigarettes are manufactured and imported by British American Tobacco Australia (BATA), a subsidiary of British American Tobacco PLC.
Winfield was first launched in 1972. Winfield has been mainly sold in Australia and New Zealand, but was also sold in Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, Italy and South Africa.
In 2004, British American Tobacco Australia shipped 853 billion Winfield cigarettes, which made it the second largest tobacco company and Winfield the largest brand in Australia before Altria and Longbeach. Both BATA and Philip Morris International had a 40% market share in the Australian cigarette market.
As of 2016, no tobacco products are manufactured in Australia. British American Tobacco, responsible for the Winfield brand, stopped doing so in 2015.
In 2017–18, the total revenue of the Australian tobacco product wholesaling market was $2.7 billion AUD, of which BATA comrpised $1.79 billion AUD. Factory-made cigarettes comprised 87.7% of the wholesale tobacco market, roll-your-own tobacco was 11.0%, and the remaining 1.3% consistent of other tobacco products including cigars, cigarillos and pipe tobacco.
Winfield was a major sponsor of sport in Australia until outlawed by the Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992 that banned all tobacco advertising and sponsorship starting from December 1995 onwards. | |
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| Relations : | | Brand name used by : British American Tobacco PLC | |
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