Our Brands

We have the industry’s strongest and most diverse brand portfolio, led by Marlboro, the world’s number one selling brand, and L&M, the third most popular brand. Overall, seven of the top 15 brands in the world are ours.

Marlboro

Marlboro has been the world’s number one cigarette brand since 1972 and is one of the most powerful trademarks among all consumer products. In 2011, Marlboro’s volume outside the United States was 300.1 billion cigarettes [1], which makes it bigger than the next two largest brands combined. In fact, Marlboro’s volume exceeds that of the top four global drive brands of British American Tobacco (BAT) combined, and the total of Japan Tobacco International’s (JTI) four global focus brands.

In 2008, Philip Morris International (PMI) implemented a new brand architecture for Marlboro with three defined identities: Flavor, Gold, and Fresh. Marlboro Flavor focuses on the brand’s rich flavor, Marlboro Gold explores new dimensions in smoking, and Marlboro Fresh brings consumers innovative taste sensations.

Key initiatives within the architecture include Marlboro Filter/Flavor Plus, Marlboro Gold Touch, Marlboro Ice Blast and Marlboro Black Menthol.

L&M

L&M originated in the US in 1953. In 2011, L&M was ranked as the third best selling international cigarette brand outside the US and China, with a 2011 shipment volume of 90.1billion units.   

Other International Brands

Bond Street, Parliament, Philip Morris, and Chesterfield are some of our most well-known and best-selling international brands.

Bond Street is PMI’s third largest international brand.                                        

Parliament is sold in approximately 40 countries. It is the fourteenth largest cigarette brand in the world and the fourth largest international PMI brand. In 2011, Parliament’s volume was 39.4 billion units with a strong presence in Korea, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine.

The Philip Morris brand is PMI’s fifth largest international brand, sold in more than 40 countries.

Chesterfield is the sixth largest international brand with a volume of 36.7 billion units in 2011.

Value Segment

The combined volume of three of our value brands—Bond Street, Red & White, and Next—was 73.9 billion units in 2011, reinforcing our position in profitable low-price segments in Eastern Europe (Bond Street), Central Europe (Red & White), and globally (Next).   

Local Brands

We also own a number of important local brands, such as Sampoerna A, Dji Sam Soe and Sampoerna Hijau in Indonesia, Fortune, Champion and Hope in the Philippines, Diana in Italy, Optima and Apollo-Soyuz in Russia, Morven Gold in Pakistan, Boston in Colombia, Belmont, Canadian Classics and Number 7 in Canada, Best and Classic in Serbia, f6 in Germany, Delicados in Mexico, Assos in Greece and Petra in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The Top 25 PMI Brands

Marlboro, L&M, Fortune, Bond Street, Parliament, Philip Morris, Chesterfield, Sampoerna A, Lark, Dji Sam Soe, Next, Morven Gold,  Muratti, Optima, Sampoerna Hijau, Diana, Red & White, Virginia Slims, Merit,, Champion, U Mild, Apollo-Soyuz, Hope, Delicados, Benson & Hedges

Other Tobacco Products

While PMI focuses primarily on cigarettes, our business development interests also extend to other tobacco product (OTP) categories. We have successfully grown our OTP business and have complemented this with our recent acquisitions of a cigar business in Australia and New Zealand, the company Swedish Match in South Africa and the leading fine-cut brands Interval and Petterøes in Europe.

Smokeless

Since 2009, Philip Morris International and Swedish Match AB have operated a joint venture company that has commercialized smokeless tobacco products, outside of Scandinavia and the US. Through this joint venture company, PMI sells smokeless tobacco products, including Swedish snus.