Sovereign Cigarettes
Sovereign is a cigarette brand produced for the UK market by JTI (Japan Tobacco International), the international tobacco division of Japan Tobacco Inc. The brand was relaunched in the United Kingdom by Gallaher in 1996, and JTI records that its UK cigarette production moved from Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to the JTI Polska factory in Stary Gostków, Poland, when the Lisnafillan plant closed in 2017. This store lists four packings in slims and king size, each supplied as a sealed carton of 10 packs of 20 cigarettes, 200 in total. All products on this page are supplied to age-verified adults aged 21 and over.
Who Makes It, and Where It Is Produced
Sovereign has been a Gallaher brand. Gallaher was founded by Tom Gallaher in Londonderry in 1857, and in 1996 the company relaunched the brand in the United Kingdom after it had spent more than a decade off UK shelves as an export line. Japan Tobacco Inc. acquired the Gallaher Group in April 2007, and the brand now sits in the UK portfolio of JTI, Japan Tobacco’s international tobacco division, headquartered in Geneva.
Gallaher’s Lisnafillan plant in Ballymena, County Antrim, was the last cigarette factory operating in the United Kingdom. It closed in October 2017, and JTI records that the operation moved to Gostków, Poland, where JTI Polska sp. z o.o. runs a factory opened in 2009 at Stary Gostków near Łódź. Japan Tobacco Inc. is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange; see JTI’s corporate site.
Which Sovereign Version You Receive
The packs this store dispatches are EU duty-paid, and the statutory warning on the pack is printed in Polish or English. Cartons arrive in manufacturer-sealed outers and are not repacked or split. The production code is printed on the side panel of the pack, and the presence of a tax stamp identifies the market for which the pack was duty-paid. Cigarettes sold in the European Union are required to meet the reduced ignition propensity standard EN 16156.
Sovereign Variants Stocked in This Store
The four packings below sit within the store’s wider cigarettes range.
| Variant | Type | Taste | Format | Per carton | SKU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sovereign Ultra | Cigarette | White | Slims | 10 packs / 200 | CIGS8396 |
| Sovereign Lights | Cigarette | Silver | Slims | 10 packs / 200 | CIGS8727 |
| Sovereign Lights | Cigarette | Blue | King Size | 10 packs / 200 | CIGS9189 |
| Sovereign Sovereign | Cigarette | Blue | Slims | 10 packs / 200 | CIGS9195 |
White, Silver and Blue are the colour identifiers recorded for these packings. The two Lights entries differ in format: Silver in slims, Blue in king size. Each packing ships as a sealed carton of 10 packs.
Ordering from This Store
Orders are handled within 1 to 2 business days. Standard transit takes 14 to 32 days; the express option is dispatched within 1 business day and transits in 7 to 25 days. Sale is limited to age-verified adults aged 21 and over, and dispatch requires an age-eligible recipient at delivery. Current pricing is shown on each product page.
Unwanted orders may be claimed within 45 days of dispatch confirmation, subject to the exclusions set out in our refund and returns policy; opened packs are excluded, and approved refunds are processed within 10 business days to the original payment method. Orders ship worldwide from Poland, and any customs duty, import VAT, excise or handling charge levied in the destination country is the buyer’s responsibility and is not included in the order total. Payment terms are set out in our payment policy and delivery terms in our shipping policy. Orders are fulfilled by KING SMOKE sp. z o.o., Staromiejska Street 6/10D, Floor 7, 40-013 Katowice, Silesian, Poland; NIP 9542784480; REGON 36875533100000; KRS 0000703707; support@cheap-cigarettes.org.
Questions About This Cigarette Brand
The brand is made by JTI (Japan Tobacco International), a subsidiary of Japan Tobacco Inc. In the UK it is managed by JTI UK, whose trading company, Gallaher Limited, succeeded the Gallaher Group that owned the brand before Japan Tobacco acquired it in April 2007.
Until October 2017 the brand’s owner produced UK cigarettes at the Lisnafillan plant in Ballymena, County Antrim, the last cigarette factory operating in the UK. JTI records that when the plant closed, the operation moved to Gostków, Poland, where JTI Polska runs a factory opened in 2009 at Stary Gostków near Łódź.
Yes. The brand appears in JTI UK’s current cigarette list. Gallaher relaunched it for the United Kingdom market in February 1996, after more than a decade in which it had been sold only as an export line.
This store lists four packings: Ultra in White, Lights in Silver, Lights in Blue, and the base line in Blue, in slims and king size. In the UK, JTI sells colour-named lines such as the Blue and Sky Blue editions.
Dual is a capsule variant launched by JTI in the UK in 2015 and sold there in packs of 10 and 18. The 2020 update, New Dual, uses a two-section pack of two sets of 10 and a filter with a centre hole.
Every carton on this page holds 10 packs of 20, 200 cigarettes in total, in slims or king size. In the UK the brand has also appeared in smaller pack sizes, including 10s, 17s, 18s and 19s, introduced between 2013 and 2015.
Related brands stocked in this store include Esse and President.