As of 2024 PTG reported that it was manufacturing in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
[1] Around 1970 the group's Rwandan founder, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa (c. 1941 – 2024), started to import wheat, flour, salt and cigarettes into Burundi from Tanzania.
[7] In 2011 the Rwandan police seized eight heavy trucks owned by the PTC's subsidiary of the eastern DRC, the Congo Tobacco Company.
They claimed that the trucks were being used for "terror activities" organized by former general Kayumba Nyamwasa and former Rwandan head of intelligence, Colonel Patrick Karegeya.
[9] By 2013 the PTG was trading in 27 African and Middle Eastern countries, with annual revenues in excess of $250 million.