BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO GROUP QUESTION: How many women, blacks and/or minorities do you have at top echelon of your company? ANSWER: At Brawii & Williamson robacco Group we have 1. 221 Officials and Managers. Of that number, minorities and blacks represent 112 or 9. 216, females represent 87 or 7. 1016. Blacks and women are in middle management but have not yet reached the top echelon. Over the past four years, the number of females in the Officials & Managers job category has more than doubled, and the number of minorities in such jobs has increased by almost one-third. Our Corporate total breakdown is 9, 333, of which minorities represent 2, 547 or 27. 3016 and females represent 2, 937 or 31. 5%. CD r1 i C:) CD CD c0 c0 U'l BAT industries document for Province of British Columbia 23 April 1999