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• JTI sold 434.9 billion cigarettes ⁽¹⁾ which generated USD 9.6 billion in net sales.
• JTI grew by 15% compared to 2008 ⁽²⁾ , reaching USD 3 billion in EBITDA ⁽³⁾ .
•  JTI is the fastest organically growing business in the tobacco industry over a ten year period. In 2009, we simultaneously reduced our environmental impact by cutting factory CO ₂ emissions by 1% and waste by 8% ^(4).
• JTI is the growth engine of Japan Tobacco Group, and generated over 70% of the Group's volume and approximately 50% of its EBITDA in 2009. 
• Japan Tobacco Inc. is among Fortune's Global 500.
• JTI employs 25,000 people in 89 offices and 29 factories around the world.
• JTI's brands are sold in over 120 countries.

⁽¹⁾ Cigarettes or equivalent units
⁽²⁾ At constant rates of exchange
⁽³⁾ Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
⁽⁴⁾ Per-million cigarettes, versus 2008

JTI Profit Development & Average Growth (2000 - 2009)

Sales Volume Comparison (2009)