Financial Statements

Cautionary statement

All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as “believes”, “expects”, “anticipates”, “projects”, “intends”, “should”, “seeks”, “estimates”, “probability”, “risk”, “target”, “goal”, “objective”, “future” or similar expressions or variations on such expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements reflect knowledge and information available at the date of preparation of the half yearly report to 31 March 2009 and Imperial Tobacco Group PLC undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Nothing in the half yearly report to 31 March 2009 should be construed as a profit forecast.