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tobaccoasia 51 Mark Your Calendar For more Information on this NEW Show dedicated to Tobacco Machinery used in the Production, Processing and Packaging of Tobacco Products Call Reuter Exposition Services, LLC at (203) 483-5774 or email: info@reuterexpo.com Shanghai Tobacco Group and CT Yunnan are the two most powerful groups in China's tobacco industry, but provincial based enterprises have emerged in recent years, including China Tobacco Hu- nan Industrial (CT Hunan), China Tobacco Guangdong Industrial (CT Guangdong), China Tobacco Zhejiang In- dustrial (CT Zhejiang) China Tobacco Hubei Industrial (CT Hubei), and China To- bacco Jiangsu Industrial (CT Jiangsu). CT Hunan is a backbone enterprise of the tobacco in- dustry, ranking among the top three enterprises in scale, assets, and tax and profit gen- eration. It has six cigarette factories of which four are in Hunan (Changsha, Changde, Chenzhou, and Lingling) and there's one in Jilin Province (Siping) and one in Hingsix Hug (Wuzhong). Major ciga- rette products of CT Hunan are such big competitive brands of Chinese-style ciga- rettes as Hetianxia, Furongwang, and Baisha. In particular, He- tianxia ranks the first among the high-priced cigarette products in terms of both the annual output and sales. Fu- rongwang has been consistently in first place among all Grade One cigarette products for 8 consecutive years, with the annual sales over RMB100 billion. Baisha is one of the largest CT Hunan brands. CT Hunan actively ex- plores new ways of manu- facturing high-end cigarettes including customized produc- tion, and investing into r&d of new-type tobacco prod- ucts as it strives to meet de- mand for the supply of both individualized and diversified products. CT Guangdong has four cigarette factories all in Guangdong provice (Guang- zhou, Shaoguan, Meizhou, and Zhanjiang), with total as- sets in excess of US$1.59 billion. In 2014, the sales of the company's leading brand Double Hap- piness reached over 150 billion, generating RMB25.1 billion in annual taxes and profits. Created in 1906, Double Happiness is also one of the few cigarette brands in China that are over 100 years old. From the time of its creation by Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Co. Ltd. to its incorporation into CT Guangdong, the annual output of Double Happiness averaged a mere 19.5 billion cigarettes. But in 2014, the annual output of Double Happiness topped 150 billion, and it quickly became the number one brand in terms of scale. In 2015, its annual output is expected to remain at 150 bil- lion. Throughout its operations in Southeast Asia, CT Guangdong established the joint-venture in Cambodia in 1993, and Viniton Tobacco is one of the largest cigarette factories there with market share exceeding 40%. In 2012, Viniton Tobacco underwent relocation and a technological trans- formation, and by January 2014, the new factory went back into operation, with the single-shift annual production capacity reaching 7.5 billion.