British American Tobacco p.l.c. filings document foreign-issuer current reports and ADR-related disclosures for the company’s U.S.-listed American Depositary Shares. The record is centered on Form 6-K reports furnished under Exchange Act rules, with exhibits that publish company announcements, governance notices and capital-structure updates.
Recurring filing subjects include transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities, purchases under the British American Tobacco Share Incentive Plan, transactions in the company’s own shares, total voting rights and share issuance notices, major-holdings notifications, annual general meeting materials and voting results, and executive appointment announcements.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BTI) published a major-holdings notification from The Capital Group Companies, Inc., recording its voting-rights position when a threshold was crossed on November 4, 2026. The resulting position was 17.975584%, compared with 18.023677% in the previous notification, and comprised 387,324,693 voting rights: 287,637,213 attached to GB Common Stock and 99,687,480 to Depository Receipts. Voting rights through financial instruments were 0.000000%. Capital Group stated that it and its affiliates do not own the reported shares for their own account; the shares are held in accounts under the discretionary investment management of its investment management companies.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. reported purchases of 3 ordinary shares each on November 4, 2026, at £45.325 per share by Chief Executive Tadeu Marroco, Chief Marketing Officer Luciano Comin, Director, Research and Science James Murphy, Director, Business Development James Barrett, Director, Legal and General Counsel Paul McCrory, Director, Digital and Information Javed Iqbal, and Chief Operating Officer Johan Vandermeulen. Each notice lists an aggregated price of £135.98. The purchases were made through the Partnership Share Scheme, a HMRC-approved Share Incentive Plan, and the stated transaction venue was the London Stock Exchange.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. reported share purchases under its buyback programme, including 122,343 ordinary shares purchased on October 23 at a volume weighted average price of 4,438.15p per share. Under a separate agreement with Merrill Lynch International, purchases are scheduled from October 13 through the close of business on December 23, 2026. Shareholder authority permits the company to purchase a maximum of 217,492,219 shares, which are to be cancelled.
After the purchases and cancellations reported through October 23, the company says it will have 2,155,557,220 ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares and 132,648,864 shares in treasury. It issued 9,636 shares under its Sharesave Scheme between September 1 and September 30; 1,417,845 shares not yet in issue remained subject to the Block Admission. The Capital Group Companies, Inc. reported 18.023677% of voting rights, representing 388,574,533 voting rights, after the threshold was crossed on October 21.
Bruce Sewell will join the Board as an independent Non-Executive Director on January 1, 2027, and join the Audit and Nominations Committees. From November 30, Véronique Laury will leave the Audit Committee and join the Remuneration Committee, while Serpil Timuray will move from the Remuneration Committee to the Audit Committee.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. said Bruce Sewell will join its Board as an independent Non-Executive Director on January 1, 2027, and become a member of the Audit and Nominations Committees. He previously held senior legal roles at Apple and Intel and serves on the boards of Vail Resorts and C3.ai.
Effective November 30, 2026, Véronique Laury will leave the Audit Committee and join Remuneration, while Serpil Timuray will leave Remuneration and join Audit. From January 1, the Audit Committee will also include Sewell and Timuray, alongside Chair Darrell Thomas and Uta Kemmerich-Keil; the Remuneration Committee will include Chair Kandy Anand, Karen Guerra, Laury and Matthew Wright.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. disclosed that The Capital Group Companies, Inc. reported 18.023677% of voting rights, or 388,574,533 voting rights, after crossing a notification threshold on October 21, 2026; its previous notification reported 17.934796%.
The reported position comprises 291,270,072 voting rights attached to common stock and 97,304,461 attached to depository receipts. The Capital Group Companies stated that neither it nor its affiliates owns the shares for its own account; accounts under discretionary investment management hold the reported shares.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BTI) reported that Zafar Khan, Director, Operations, acquired 1,445 ordinary shares of 25p each on October 19, 2026. The reported price was £20.76 per share, with an aggregate reported price of £29,998.20. The transaction took place outside a trading venue.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. disclosed a purchase by Karen Guerra, its Non-Executive Director, on October 14, 2026. Guerra purchased 6,000 ordinary shares of 25p each at £42.544825 per share, for an aggregate price of £255,268.95. The transaction took place on the London Stock Exchange, and the notice identifies it as an initial notification.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. reported that its share-plan trustee notified it of purchases by Tadeu Marroco (Chief Executive), Luciano Comin (Chief Marketing Officer), James Murphy (Director, Research and Science), James Barrett (Director, Business Development), Paul McCrory (Director, Legal and General Counsel), Javed Iqbal (Director, Digital and Information), and Johan Vandermeulen (Chief Operating Officer).
Each purchased 4 ordinary shares of 25p each at £40.20 per share, with an aggregate price of £160.80 per purchase. The purchases took place on October 7, 2026 under the Partnership Share Scheme, a HMRC approved Share Incentive Plan, on London Stock Exchange (XLON).
British American Tobacco p.l.c. has agreed with Merrill Lynch International to purchase the Company’s ordinary shares from October 13, 2026 through close of business on December 23, 2026. Merrill Lynch will make trading decisions independently of and uninfluenced by the Company. Shares repurchased will be cancelled, and the Programme’s purpose is to reduce the Company’s share capital.
Purchases will be made within pre-set parameters and under the general repurchase authority shareholders granted at the 2026 AGM, which permits the purchase of a maximum of 217,492,219 shares. The maximum price per share is the higher of 105% of the average market value from the LSE’s Daily Official List for the five business days before purchase and the higher of the last independent trade or highest current independent purchase bid on the trading venue. Taxes and expenses are excluded.
British American Tobacco p.l.c. reported that the independent Trustee of its Group Employee Trust released 770 ordinary shares granted to Pascale Meulemeester, Regional Director, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, under the Restricted Share Plan on September 30, 2026, at £nil. Meulemeester also sold 364 shares at £41.803879 per share to meet the tax liability arising on vesting; the reported aggregate price was £15,216.61. Both transactions took place outside a trading venue.