BAT Appoints Chief Financial Officer

British American Tobacco p.l.c.
Incorporated in England and Wales
(Registration number: 03407696)
Short name: BATS
Share code: BTI
ISIN number: GB0002875804


British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the "Company")

2 November 2023

                             BAT Appoints Chief Financial Officer

Soraya Benchikh has been appointed to the role of Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director
and will join the BAT p.l.c. and Management Boards from 1 May 2024. She will succeed Javed
Iqbal, who will continue to serve as interim Finance Director until 30 April 2024.


Soraya has been President, Europe at Diageo plc since January 2023, having joined Diageo in July
2020 as Managing Director for Northern Europe. Soraya previously spent 20 years at BAT where
she served as President of BAT France, Area Director for East and Southern Africa, and Regional
Finance Director for Europe. Earlier in her career, Soraya worked in finance roles at General
Electric and Gillette.


Luc Jobin, Chair of the Board, commented:

"I am pleased to welcome Soraya as Chief Financial Officer, and to the Board. She brings a wealth
of leadership experience and commercial acumen from across both finance and commercial
roles. Soraya's excellent track record in different geographies and in depth understanding of the
sector make her ideally suited for the role. On behalf of the whole Board I would like to welcome
Soraya and am confident that her leadership will accelerate our strategy to build A Better
Tomorrow."


Tadeu Marroco, Chief Executive, commented:

"I am delighted to welcome Soraya to the Management Board as our new Chief Financial Officer.
Her extensive senior leadership and financial experience from a range of international fast
moving consumer goods companies represents a great addition to our leadership team. I am
grateful to Javed for his continued contribution as interim Finance Director, in addition to his
ongoing role as Director, Digital and Information.

Following the recent appointment of Dr Cora Koppe-Stahrenberg as Chief People Officer,
Soraya's appointment is also a further important step towards building a modern organisation. I
very much look forward to working with Soraya as we continue our transformation."


Soraya Benchikh commented:

"I am excited to re-join the leadership of BAT as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director,
and share their passion for the transformation strategy. I am looking forward to working with my
new colleagues, the leadership team, Tadeu and the Board, and leverage my recent experience
within broader FMCG to provide an external lens and support their efforts to accelerate BAT's
strategy to build A Better Tomorrow."
There is no other information that is required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13R of the UK
Listing Authority.

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Supplementary information

Remuneration

Soraya Benchikh will be appointed with a base salary of £800,000 per annum. All other elements
of her remuneration will be consistent with the terms of the Directors' Remuneration Policy
approved by shareholders at the AGM in April 2022. Further details will be set out in the 2023
Directors' Remuneration Report.

Replacement awards will be made covering the value of lost short and long-term incentive
awards in order to facilitate recruitment, which are in line with the Director's Remuneration
Policy. Replacement awards will be made subject to malus and clawback provisions.

About BAT

BAT is a leading, multi-category consumer goods business with a purpose to build A Better
Tomorrow™ by reducing the health impact of its business through offering a greater choice of
enjoyable and less risky products for adult consumers.

We continue to be clear that combustible cigarettes pose serious health risks, and the only way
to avoid these risks is not to start or to quit. BAT encourages those who would otherwise continue
to smoke to switch completely to scientifically-substantiated, reduced-risk alternatives*†. In order
to deliver this, BAT is transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category consumer
products business.

BAT's ambition is to have 50 million consumers of its non-combustible products by 2030 and to
generate £5billion of New Categories revenue by 2025. BAT has set stretching ESG targets
including achieving carbon neutrality for Scopes 1 & 2 by 2030 and eliminating unnecessary
single-use plastic and making all plastic packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.

BAT employs over 47,000 people. The BAT Group generated revenue of £27.65 billion in 2022 and
profit from operations of £10.5 billion.

The company's Strategic Portfolio is made up of its global cigarette brands and a growing range
of reduced-risk*† New Category tobacco and nicotine products and traditional non-combustible
tobacco products. These include vapour, tobacco heating products, modern oral products
including tobacco-free nicotine pouches, as well as traditional oral products such as snus and
moist snuff. In 2022, we had 22.5 million consumers of our non-combustible products, a rise of 4.2
million on full year 2021.

References in this statement to 'BAT', 'we', 'us' and 'our' refer to the British American Tobacco
Group.

* Based on the weight of evidence and assuming a complete switch from cigarette smoking.
These products are not risk free and are addictive.
† Our vapour product Vuse (including Alto, Solo, Ciro and Vibe), and certain products, including
Velo, Grizzly, Kodiak, and Camel Snus, which are sold in the U.S., are subject to FDA regulation
and no reduced-risk claims will be made as to these products without agency clearance.

Forward-looking statements

This release contains certain forward-looking statements, including "forward-looking"
statements made within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as
"believe," "anticipate," "could," "may," "would," "should," "intend," "plan," "potential," "predict,"
"will," "expect," "estimate," "project," "positioned," "strategy," "outlook", "target" and similar
expressions. These include statements regarding our customer target ambition, New Categories
revenue targets and our ESG targets.

All such forward-looking statements involve estimates and assumptions that are subject to risks,
uncertainties and other factors. It is believed that the expectations reflected in this release are
reasonable but they may be affected by a wide range of variables that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. A review of the reasons why actual
results and developments may differ materially from the expectations disclosed or implied
within forward-looking statements can be found by referring to the information contained
under the headings "Cautionary Statement" and "Group Principal Risks" in the 2022 Annual
Report and Form 20-F of British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BAT PLC).

Additional information concerning these and other factors can be found in BAT PLC's filings with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including the Annual Report on Form 20-F
and Current Reports on Form 6-K, which may be obtained free of charge at the SEC's website,
http://www.sec.gov and BAT PLC's Annual Reports, which may be obtained free of charge from
the BAT website www.bat.com.

Past performance is no guide to future performance and persons needing advice should consult
an independent financial adviser. The forward-looking statements reflect knowledge and
information available at the date of preparation of this release and BAT undertakes no
obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
such forward-looking statements.




2 November 2023

Sponsor: Merrill Lynch South Africa (Pty) Ltd t/a BofA Securities

Date: 02-11-2023 09:00:00
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