Universal Corporation (UVV)

Leaf tobacco processor, 25,000, 30 countries. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending March 31, 2026, filed June 1, 2026. Ranked 22 of the 34 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A leaf tobacco and ingredients processor whose filing states one total across 30 countries and nothing by function, so the processing plants lead with the leaf trade and the food ingredients plants by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 24% at the end of 2027, 27% at the end of 2028, 27% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 27% desk work, 11% people work and 62% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 70% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 23% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

25,000 employees as of March 31, 2026 (stated). The filing states no count by country; it employs people in over 30 countries, and 23% of revenue is from the United States.

The filing: “As of March 31, 2026, we employed more than 25,000 employees, operating in over 30 different countries across five continents.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: More than 25,000 employees as of March 31, 2026 (28,500 a year earlier), operating in over 30 countries across five continents; the filing describes tobacco processing and agronomy operations and suppliers' workers outside its own workforce.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Tobacco Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Philip Morris International Inc. (PM, 84,900 employees)17% now, 28% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 6 times, as a technology in its efficiency initiatives and as a source of cybersecurity risk through AI-enabled social engineering.

• “These strategies and initiatives are expected to focus on efficient financial management, effective human capital management, optimal utilization of technology, including artificial intelligence ( " AI"), and operational synergies between our business segments.”
• “For example, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI technologies may intensify cybersecurity risks for us and our service providers, key suppliers, and customers.”
• “Bad actors use increasingly advanced methods, including AI-enabled social engineering and deepfakes, automated credential‑stuffing, and other techniques, to attempt to compromise systems and to steal or misuse personal information, confidential information and intellectual property.”
• “Our vendors and other third‑party partners may incorporate AI tools into their offerings with or without disclosing this use to us.”
• “The providers of these AI tools may not meet existing-or rapidly evolving-regulatory or industry standards concerning privacy, data protection, security and responsible AI, which could increase the risk of unauthorized disclosure or loss of confidential information or intellectual property, negatively affect the accuracy or availability of systems we use, or otherwise harm our reputation and th...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20256median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• Pattern shares rest on descriptions and segment revenue (c), not stated headcounts.
• The headcount is stated as more than 25,000, and the seasonal processing workforce is not counted separately.
• No U.S. share is stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-039511, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.