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The National Company for the Industrial Exploitation of Tobacco and Matches, formerly the Service d'exploitation industrial des tabacs et matches, best known by its acronym Seita, is a French company in the tobacco sector. A state company at its creation, it had a monopoly on tobacco cultivation in France until 1970, as well as the manufacture and sale of tobacco and matches until 1976[2]. SEITA produces the cigarette and tobacco brands Gitanes, Gauloises, Royale, News, Bastos, Fine 120, Django and Amsterdamer. Renamed Altadis in 1999 following its merger with Tabacalera, the group became a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco in 2008, which has since become Imperial Brands.
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