John Player & Sons, oftast känt som Player's, var en tobaks- och cigarettillverkare baserad i Nottingham i England. 1901 slogs företaget samman med andra företag för att bilda The Imperial Tobacco Company för att kunna konkurrera med amerikanska tillverkare. Företaget släppte också flera serier av cigarettkort på 1930-talet under varumärket Player's.
Nuförtiden ägs och säljs varumärkena "Player" och "John Player Special" av Imperial Brands.
Magrath, Derek(1997).Norton the Complete Story. Crowood Classics. Rambsbury: The Crowood Press. ISBN 1-86126-062-8
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↑läs online, www.telegraph.co.uk , läst: 23 maj 2026, ”Garrett was chairman and managing director of John Player & Sons from 1968 and chairman of its parent Imperial Tobacco – part of the wider Imperial Group, which also owned consumer brands such as Golden Wonder crisps and Courage beers – from 1973 to 1979.The group’s leading cigarette brands, Embassy and Players No 6, accounted for a large chunk of the UK market in an era when more than half of British men and an only slightly lower proportion of women still smoked. But the connections between tar and nicotine, lung cancer and heart disease were by then well established, and cigarette marketing was increasingly constrained.”.[källa från Wikidata]
Lenton, Nottingham, England