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Thailand Tobacco Monopoly
Thai state enterprise, that ‒until the signing of the
ASEAN
Free Trade Area agreement in 1992‒ had a monopoly over the
manufacturing and distribution of tobacco products in Thailand.
It was founded
on 19 April 1939, when the
Excise Department under the Ministry
of Finance took over operations from the Burapha
Tobacco Factory,
initially and until 1949, in
collaboration with British American Tobacco, a London-based British
multinational tobacco company, while expanded with the take over of
another two cigarette factories, i.e. Kwahng Hok (กวางฮก) and Hoffan
(ฮอฟฟัน).
Its head office
is
in
Bangkok,
located on a large compound, that also houses production factories.
The
company has a circular logo, bordered with
kranok-style
motifs, which make the contours
lotus-shaped, while in its centre are the Thai letters R Y S
(ร ย ส), which stand for Rohng-ngahn Yah Soob (โรงงานยาสูบ),
the Thai name of the Thailand Tobacco Monopoly, which in
fact translates as
‘Tobacco
Factory’,
but with the production of cigarettes in Thailand being a state
monopoly, it became in English known as
Thailand Tobacco Monopoly.
However, in 2018 the Ministry of Finance
corporatized the state enterprise
into an independent commercial company and renamed
it Khan
Yah Soob
Haeng Phrathet Thai (การยาสูบแห่งประเทศไทย), i.e.
‘Tobacco
Authority of Thailand’.
See MAP.
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