W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco manufacturing company formed in Bristol, England. It was the first British company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the 13 founding companies of the Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland); these firms became branches, or divisions, of the new combine and included John Player & Sons.
Industry | |||
Fate | Split into two Companies
|
||
Successor | |||
Founded | 1786
|
||
Defunct | 1988
(Seal still used in other brands)
|
||
Headquarters | |||
Key people | List |
||
Products | |||
Brands |
This page is the FamousFix profile for W.D. & H.O. Wills. Content on this page is contributed by editors who belong to our editorial community. We welcome your contributions... so please create an account if you would like to collaborate with other editor's in helping to shape this website.
On the W.D. & H.O. Wills page you will be able to add and update factual information, post media and connect this topic to other topics on the website. This website does skew towards famous actors, musicians, models and sports stars, however we would like to expand that to include many other interesting topics.