AR96 Imp.bfn.bv 31

RNS Number:8818L
JPMorgan Securities Ltd
10 November 2006



10/11/05

Not for distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States or
any jurisdiction in which such distribution would be unlawful.

                    J.P. Morgan Bank Luxemburg S.A. (London)

                              Stabilisation Notice

J.P. Morgan Securities Limited (contact: Robin Stoole; telephone:
+44-207-779-2468) hereby gives notice that the Stabilising Manager(s) named
below may stabilise the offer of the following securities in accordance with
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2273/2003 implementing the Market Abuse Directive
(2003/6/EC).

The securities:

Issuer:                              Imperial Tobacco Finance PLC

Guarantor (if any):                  Imperial Tobacco Group PLC and Imperial
                                     Tobacco Limited

Aggregate nominal amount:            Euro1.2bn and #450m

Description:                         7 Year EUR and 10 Year GBP

Offer price:                         99.422 EUR / 99.171 GBP

Other offer terms:                   4.375% Coupon - EUR / 5.5% Coupon - GBP

Stabilisation:

Stabilising Manager(s):              JPMorgan Securities Limited, Deutsche Bank
                                     AG, Barclays

Stabilisation period expected to     10/11/05
start on:

Stabilisation period expected to end 10/12/2005
no later than:
                                     (30 days after the proposed issue date of
                                     the securities)(1)

Maximum size of over-allotment       5% of the aggregate nominal amount stated
facility:                            above.


In connection with the offer of the above securities, the Stabilising Manager(s)
may over-allot the securities or effect transactions with a view to supporting
the market price of the securities at a level higher than that which might
otherwise prevail. However, there is no assurance that the Stabilising 
Manager(s) will take any stabilisation action and any stabilisation action, if 
begun, may be ended at any time.(1)

This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute an
invitation or offer to underwrite, subscribe for or otherwise acquire or dispose
of any securities of the Issuer in any jurisdiction.
This announcement and the offer of the securities to which it relates are only
addressed to and directed at persons outside the United Kingdom and persons in
the United Kingdom who have professional experience in matters related to
investments or who are high net worth persons within article 12(5) of the
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 and
must not be acted on or relied on by other persons in the United Kingdom.(2)
In addition, if and to the extent that this announcement is communicated in, or
the offer of the securities to which it relates is made in, any EEA Member State
that has implemented Directive 2003/71/EC (together with any applicable
implementing measures in any Member State, the "Prospectus Directive") before
the publication of a prospectus in relation to the securities which has been
approved by the competent authority in that Member State in accordance with the
Prospectus Directive (or which has been approved by a competent authority in
another Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Member
State in accordance with the Prospectus Directive), this announcement and the
offer are only addressed to and directed at persons in that Member State who are
qualified investors within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive (or who are
other persons to whom the offer may lawfully be addressed) and must not be acted
on or relied on by other persons in that Member State.(3)

This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale into the United States.
The securities have not been, and will not be, registered under the United
States Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United
States absent registration or an exemption from registration. There will be no
public offer of securities in the United States. END
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(1) Article 9(1)(a) of the Regulation requires disclosure of the fact that
stabilisation may be undertaken, that there is no assurance that it will be
undertaken and that it may be stopped at any time.

(2) Article 12(4)(a) and (b) and (5) of the Financial Promotion Order. In
addition, in order to rely on the safe harbour under article 12(3), the
communication should not be referred to in, or be directly accessible from, any
other communication made to or directed at other kinds of persons in the UK by
the co-ordinating stabilising manager (article 12(4)(c) and (6)(c) Financial
Promotion Order) and the co-ordinating stabilising manager should have in place
proper systems and procedures to prevent recipients in the UK (other than those
to whom the communication might otherwise lawfully have been made by the
co-ordinating stabilising manager or a member of its group) engaging in
investment activity to which the announcement relates with the co-ordinating
stabilising manager or a member of its group (article 12(4)(e) Financial
Promotion Order).

(3) Article 3(2) Prospectus Directive.



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