LD was first launched in
Jamaica in 1990, and by the following year it commanded 50 percent of the country's cheap cigarette market, and 17 percent of all cigarettes in Russia. Liggett Ducat was bought in 2000 by the
Gallaher Group, The original Liggett Ducat factory in Moscow where LD was manufactured, was shut down in 2016. Later LD was manufactured in Saudi Arabia in 2020 In 2016, JTI announced it would introduce the LD brand on the United States cigarette market with the Red, Silver, and Menthol (Green) varieties. Beyond Russia and the United States, the brand has been sold in other global markets, including but not limited to
Austria,
Poland,
Hungary, the
Czech Republic,
Serbia,
Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
Belarus,
Ukraine,
Kazakhstan,
South Africa,
Romania,
Mongolia,
Taiwan, and
Jordan. It has also recently launched in Bangladesh. ==See also==