Alliance One Tobacco Malawi Ltd
Alliance One Tobacco (Malawi) Limited is a subsidiary of a trusted provider of responsibly sourced, independently verified, sustainable and traceable agricultural products and ingredients, operating in Malawi servicing the needs of its shareholders and their customers.
Alliance One is one of only two global independent publicly held leaf tobacco merchants, serving the world’s largest cigarette manufacturers. The company was formed on 13 May 2005, as a result of the merger of DIMON Incorporated and Standard Commercial Corporation, both world leaders in tobacco processing.
Alliance One typically purchases most of its leaf tobacco according to customer orders, supply contracts, or customer indications of anticipated need. The tobacco is then shipped to customer factories, located in approximately 90 countries. Alliance purchases tobacco in 45 countries, primarily directly from growers in a process known as “direct contract buying” often buying a farmer’s entire crop. Alliance is responsible for matching quantities and grades required by its customers in advance of the crop. These estimates are used as the basis to contract tobacco directly from farmers. Tobacco is bought at auctions largely in Canada, India and Malawi after receiving customers’ orders as Alliance representatives attend major auctions around the world. It operates 23 processing facilities in 13 countries; most of them located near the major growing regions and then ships to customers in some 90 countries.
Alliance One holds a leading position in most tobacco growing regions in the world, including the principal export markets for flue-cured, burley and oriental tobacco: the United States, Brazil, Malawi, Turkey, Argentina, India and Thailand. In addition, it process tobacco in more than 50 owned and third party facilities around the world. The company sells its processed tobacco primarily to large multinational cigarette manufacturers, including Philip Morris International, Inc., Japan Tobacco, Inc., Imperial Tobacco Group, PLC, China National Tobacco Co., British American Tobacco, Philip Morris USA, Inc., Eastern Company S.A.E., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Lorillard Tobacco Company and others.
