British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco (BAT) is a leading multi-category consumer goods company that provides tobacco and nicotine products to hundreds of millions of adult consumers worldwide. Since 1902, BAT has grown over the years to become one of the world’s leading consumer goods companies. BAT has a corporate purpose – to build A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of their business through offering a greater choice of enjoyable and less risky products for their consumers.

British American Tobacco has its operations tentacles spread across six continents, its regions are the United States of America; Americas and Sub Saharan Africa; Europe and North Africa; and Asia-Pacific and Middle East. The tobacco company has over 150 million consumer interactions every day and distribution to 11 million points of sale across more than 180 markets. This is facilitated by a workforce of more than 53,000 BAT staffs worldwide.

British American Tobacco of Nigeria’s sustainability agenda is integral to their evolved group strategy and reflects their commitment to reducing the health impact of their business as their principal focus area. They also commit to reducing their environmental footprint, human rights, governance and ethics, stakeholder engagement and sustainability reporting. BATN Stakeholders are identified as individuals or groups who are impacted by, or who can impact upon BATN’s business operations. These include regulators, consumers, the scientific and public health communities, employees, local communities, trade customers, suppliers, NGOs and the media. The company impacts society through the BATN Foundation.

The BATN Foundation

The BATN Foundation is an independent charitable organisation incorporated in Nigeria in November 2002. Its vision is to improve the quality of lives of citizens in rural and urban areas of Nigeria. Since its operations commenced in 2003, It operates throughout Nigeria on a series of local initiatives. In order to achieve its Mission in Nigeria, the BATN Foundation focuses on 5 thematic areas namely: Empowerment through sustainable poverty alleviation, Empowerment through sustainable agricultural development, Empowerment through sustainable potable water, Empowerment through sustainable environmental protection, and Empowerment through vocational skills acquisition.

2020 Highlights

In 2019, the group launched their first ever Sustainability Week in West and Central Africa Area, to launch their Corporate Recycling Programme, in commemoration of the International World Clean Up Day.