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Sustainability at the Reynolds American Organization

We have a clear purpose to create A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World. As a business, we are continuously working to improve our impact on people and the planet, driven by our commitment to being a responsible organization.

 

At Reynolds American, we publish an annual Sustainability Summary and annual Community Engagement Summary. These summaries highlight progress across our sustainability impact areas and demonstrate how we support the communities where our teams work and live.

 

Read our 2024 Sustainability Summary to learn how our approach to sustainability is driven by our purpose to create A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World

 

Read our 2024 Community Engagement Summary to learn about how our employees and giving entities support People, the Planet, and Prosperity in our local communities

Sustainability Articles

Reynolds American Organization Collaborates with Second Harvest Food Bank and Happy Dirt to Improve Food Insecurity and Promote Farmer Livelihood
December 19, 2024 3 min read

Reynolds American Organization Collaborates with Second Harvest Food Bank and Happy Dirt to Improve Food Insecurity and Promote Farmer Livelihood

We recently gathered at Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC’s headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC, to celebrate the first distribution of produce from Happy Dirt, an organization that sources diverse harvests from an extensive network of organic farms in NC and beyond, to over 425 families this holiday season.     Happy Dirt is a … Continued

Reynolds’ Packaging Team Featured for Sustainable Innovation in Packaging Digest
September 16, 2024 5 min read

Reynolds’ Packaging Team Featured for Sustainable Innovation in Packaging Digest

At Reynolds American Inc. (Reynolds American), a circular economy means innovating to use fewer resources, create less waste, and reuse and recycle products to create a self-sustaining ecosystem of materials. In the recent Packaging Digest article, Wesley Jones, Senior Director, Packaging & Materials; Laya Horton, Director, Packaging Development; and Michael Davis, Master Scientist, Materials Development, … Continued

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The Global BAT Group’s guidance and reporting

 

 

The Global BAT Group’s suite of reporting includes the Combined Annual and Sustainability Reports, issue-specific Focus Reports, Gender Pay Reports, Conflict Minerals Report, and a Modern Slavery Statement. The suite of sustainability-specific reporting further includes a Sustainability Performance Data Book and Sustainability Reports dating back to 2009, and CDP submissions on Climate Change, Water Stewardship and Forests.

 

 

Read the Global BAT Group’s 2024 Combined Annual and Sustainability Report for a holistic view of their business and sustainability strategy.

 

The Global BAT Group’s sustainability strategy focuses on five impact areas

 

 

 

The Reynolds American organization is transforming, and sustainability is a key pillar of our business transformation. Aligned to the global BAT Group, we seek to take a leading role in tackling some of the biggest global sustainability challenges.

 

This transformation impacts all parts of our businesses. As we transition from cigarettes to Smokeless products, we are continuing to reduce GHG emissions, reducing our impact on nature, prioritizing circularity, and supporting our suppliers, employees, and communities to thrive.

The Global BAT Group’s ambitions

This page contains certain forward looking statements, including “forward looking” statements made within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “could,” “may,” “would,” “should,” “intend,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “will,” “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “positioned,” “strategy,” “outlook,” “target,” and similar expressions.

 

These include statements regarding our Sustainability targets. All such forward-looking statements involve estimates and assumptions that are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors. It is believed that the expectations reflected in this summary are reasonable, but they may be affected by a wide range of variables that could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. A review of the reasons why actual results and developments may differ materially from the expectations disclosed or implied within forward-looking statements can be found by referring to the information contained under the headings “Cautionary Statement” and “Group Principal Risks” in the 2024 Annual Report and Form 20-F of British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BAT).

 

Additional information concerning these and other factors can be found in BAT’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Annual Report on Form 20-F and Current Reports on Form 6-K, which may be obtained free of charge at the SEC’s website, http://www.sec.gov and BAT’s Annual Reports, which may be obtained free of charge from the BAT website www.bat.com.

 

Past performance is no guide to future performance. The forward-looking statements reflect knowledge and information available at the date of preparation of this report and BAT undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.