09 Sep 2010. Alison Cooper’s accession to chief executive of Britain’s Imperial Tobacco in May 2010 put the UK tobacco industry in an unfamiliar position...

....as the 43-year-old mother-of-two became just the fifth female chief executive in the flagship FTSE100 index. Internationally, however, Cooper is not unique.

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