 Hongta Tobacco (Group) Co., Ltd was founded in Yuxi City, the "Hometown of Yunnan Tobacco", Yunnan Province in 1956. Since the Reform and Opening-up policy of China, Yuxi Cigarette Factory, the predecessor of Hongta Group, has courageously introduced foreign advanced technologies and created the strategic thought of "First Workshop in the Tobacco Field " so as to strengthen the implementation of reforms and innovations. As a result, it has achieved great-leap-forward development and its famous cigarette brands including "Hongta Shan (Red Pagoda Mountain)", "Yuxi" and "Hongmei (Red Plum)" are in the favor of many consumers around China.
By 2010, Hongta Tobacco (Group) Co., Ltd had owned, in the parent - subsidiary form, 4 cigarette factories, i.e. Yuxi Cigarette Factory, Chuxiong Cigarette Factory, Dali Cigarette Factory and Zhaotong Cigarette Factory; in joint stock form, controlled Liaoning Tobacco Co., Ltd, Hainan Hongta Cigarette Co., Ltd, Hong Kong Hongta International Tobacco Co., Ltd, Hongta Switzerland Co., Ltd and Laos Liaozhong Hongta Haoyun Tobacco Co., Ltd; and participated in with shares Jilin Tobacco Industrial Co., Ltd, China Tobacco International Europe; and owned 12 cigarette production points at home and abroad with which it has asset relationship. In addition, the multiplex industries of Hongta Group involve 69 enterprises of such industries as finance, energy and transport, light chemical material, hospitality property and so on. |