29 June - Estimates say globally up to 660 billion cigarettes a year are illicit - enough to circle the Earth more than 60 times.
17 June - We acquire an 85 per cent stake in Bentoel, the country's fourth largest kretek maker.
10 June - British American Tobacco received a platinum rating in the 2009 UK Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index with a score of 96.5 per cent.
09 May - Paul Adams, our Chief Executive, talks to the Financial Times about product innovation.