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This article presents an overview of statistics for tobacco products manufacturing in the European Union (EU), as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 12.

Table 1: Key indicators, manufacture of tobacco products (NACE Division 12), EU-27, 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_na_ind_r2)
Table 2a: Key indicators, manufacture of tobacco products (NACE Division 12), 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_na_ind_r2)
Table 2b: Key indicators, manufacture of tobacco products (NACE Division 12), 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_na_ind_r2)
Table 3: Key size class indicators, manufacture of tobacco products (NACE Division 12), EU-27, 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
Figure 1: Relative importance of enterprise size classes, manufacture of tobacco products (NACE Division 12), EU-27, 2010 (1)
(% share of sectoral total) - Source: Eurostat (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
Table 4a: Employment by enterprise size class, manufacture of tobacco products (NACE Division 12), 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
Table 4b: Value added by enterprise size class, manufacture of tobacco products (NACE Division 12), 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_sc_ind_r2)

Main statistical findings

Structural profile

There were 261 enterprises operating with tobacco products manufacturing (Division 12) as their main activity in the EU-27 in 2010. This was the second lowest number of enterprises for any of the NACE divisions that constitute the non-financial business economy (Sections B to J and L to N and Division 95) and suggests that the tobacco products manufacturing sector is dominated by a small number of players — these tend to operate internationally. Together they employed 45.2 thousand persons, equivalent to 0.2 % of all persons employed in the manufacturing (Section C) workforce. They generated EUR 6.9 billion of value added which was 0.4 % of the manufacturing total.

Apparent labour productivity of the EU-27’s tobacco products manufacturing sector in 2010 was EUR 153.7 thousand per person employed, around three and a half times as high as the non-financial business economy average of EUR 44.8 thousand per person employed and three times as high as the manufacturing average of EUR 52.8 thousand per person employed. This was the third highest level of apparent labour productivity recorded by any of the manufacturing NACE divisions in the EU-27 in 2010. Average personnel costs within the EU-27’s tobacco products manufacturing sector were also relatively high, but not to the same extent as apparent labour productivity. Personnel costs per employee averaged EUR 51.8 thousand for tobacco products manufacturing compared with EUR 30.9 thousand for the whole of the non-financial business economy and an average of EUR 35.8 thousand for manufacturing. As such, average personnel costs for tobacco products manufacturing were the fourth highest among the manufacturing NACE divisions in 2010.

The wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio combines the two previous indicators and this was also relatively high due to the elevated apparent labour productivity. The wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio for the EU-27’s tobacco products manufacturing sector in 2010 was 297.0 %, more than double the non-financial business economy average (144.8 %) and the manufacturing average (148.0 %); the wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio for tobacco products manufacturing in 2010 was by some distance the highest within manufacturing, and the fifth highest of all NACE divisions within the non-financial business economy.

The ratio of the gross operating surplus to turnover) gives an indication of operating profitability — the gross operating rate. For the EU-27’s tobacco products manufacturing sector in 2010 this rate was 10.4 %, slightly higher than both the manufacturing average (9.0 %) and the non-financial business economy average (10.1 %).

Country analysis

Tobacco manufacturing was highly concentrated within the EU-27 in geographical terms. The United Kingdom had the largest tobacco products manufacturing sector among the EU Member States in 2010, accounting for close to one third (31.2 %) of the EU-27’s value added; this was the third highest share for the United Kingdom in any of the non-financial business economy NACE divisions (with data available) in 2010, as was also the case for Bulgaria’s 1.3 % share. The tobacco products manufacturing sector contributed 0.6 % of the value added in the Bulgarian non-financial business economy in 2010, a greater share than in any other Member State.

Italy, Greece (2009) and Denmark recorded particularly high wage-adjusted labour productivity ratios for the tobacco products manufacturing sector in 2010; for Italy this was the second highest wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio in any of the NACE divisions within the non-financial business economy in 2010. In general, most of the EU Member States for which data are available recorded wage-adjusted labour productivity ratios for the tobacco products manufacturing sector that were above their national non-financial business economy averages in 2010, the two exceptions being Bulgaria and Germany. However, this was not the case for the gross operating rate, as Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland all recorded gross operating rates for tobacco products manufacturing that were below their national non-financial business economy averages.

Size class analysis

The EU-27’s tobacco products manufacturing sector was one of five manufacturing NACE divisions which were dominated by large enterprises (employing 250 or more persons). Large enterprises employed 85.8 % of the tobacco products manufacturing sector’s workforce and generated 93.9 % of total value added in 2010; these were the highest shares for any of the manufacturing NACE divisions. Across all of the non-financial business economy NACE divisions, the tobacco products manufacturing sector had the second highest contribution from large enterprises to total value added and the fourth highest contribution from large enterprises to total employment. With a higher share of activity in value added terms, large enterprises in the EU-27’s tobacco products manufacturing sector not only dominated the sector but also had by far the highest apparent labour productivity: EUR 168.1 thousand per person employed compared with an average for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs, employing fewer than 250 persons) of EUR 66.3 thousand per person employed.

Size class data availability for tobacco products manufacturing is relatively weak. Nevertheless, the dominant role played by large enterprises was particularly strong in the two of the EU Member States with the largest tobacco products manufacturing sectors: 96.3 % of tobacco products manufacturing value added in Germany stemmed from large enterprises while this share rose to 99.9 % in the United Kingdom.

Data sources and availability

The analysis presented in this article is based on the main dataset for structural business statistics (SBS) and size class data, all of which are published annually.

The main series provides information for each EU Member State as well as a number of non-member countries at a detailed level according to the activity classification NACE. Data are available for a wide range of variables.

In structural business statistics, size classes are generally defined by the number of persons employed. A limited set of the standard structural business statistics variables (for example, the number of enterprises, turnover, persons employed and value added) are analysed by size class, mostly down to the three-digit (group) level of NACE. The main size classes used in this article for presenting the results are:

  • small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): with 1 to 249 persons employed, further divided into;
    • micro enterprises: with less than 10 persons employed;
    • small enterprises: with 10 to 49 persons employed;
    • medium-sized enterprises: with 50 to 249 persons employed;
  • large enterprises: with 250 or more persons employed.

Context

This article presents an overview of statistics for the tobacco products manufacturing sector in the EU, as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 12. This division includes the processing of tobacco into a form suitable for final consumption. It includes the manufacture of tobacco products and products of tobacco substitutes: cigarettes, fine cut tobacco, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, ‘homogenised’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco.

This division contains one group and one class only and so there is no analysis of subsectors in this article.

See also

Further Eurostat information

Publications

Main tables

Database

SBS - industry and construction (sbs_ind_co)
Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
Annual detailed enterprise statistics for industry (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_na_ind_r2)
SMEs - Annual enterprise statistics by size class - industry and construction (sbs_sc_ind)
Industry by employment size class (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
SBS - regional data - all activities (sbs_r)
SBS data by NUTS 2 regions and NACE Rev. 2 (from 2008 onwards) (sbs_r_nuts06_r2)

Dedicated section

Source data for tables and figures (MS Excel)

Other information

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