Japan Tobacco completes acquisition of Logic

Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) announced yesterday that the JT Group has completed the acquisition of Logic Technology Development LLC (“Logic”), one of the leading US e-cigarette brands. The acquisition was announced on April 30, 2015, “JT acquires Logic, the leading independent US e-cigarette company”.

The acquisition is expected to have minor effect on the Group’s consolidated financial performance for the 2015 fiscal year.

Founded in 2010, Logic sells a full range of high quality rechargeable, ready-to-use and disposable e-cigarettes, including the Logic Pro tank system1.

The investment in Logic provides JT Group with a sizeable participation in the largest and fast-growing US e-cigarette market. Logic’s well established presence in the US, in addition to the acquisition of E-Lites in the UK, further underpins the Group’s global ambitions to become the leader among emerging products.

Let us recall that this is not the first example of such purchase by tobacco corporations.

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Reference Source: jti.com