BAT agrees to buy Reynolds for US$49 billion

British American Tobacco has agreed a US$49.4 billion takeover of U.S. rival Reynolds American Inc , creating the world’s biggest listed tobacco company after it increased an earlier offer by more than US$2 billion. FILE PHOTO – Pall Mall cigarettes are seen after the manufacturing process in the British American Tobacco Cigarette Factory in Bayreuth, southern Germany, April 30, 2014.