ITG Brands, LLC is the third-largest

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in the

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. It is a

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of British multinational

Imperial Brands Imperial Brands plc (formerly Imperial Tobacco Group plc), is a British multinational tobacco company headquartered in Bristol, England. It is the world's fourth-largest international cigarette company measured by market share after Philip Mor ...

. ITG Brands markets and sells multiple cigarette and cigar brands and sells

blu eCigs blu is an electronic cigarette brand, produced by Fontem Ventures and owned by Imperial Brands. The brand blu sells various types of rechargeable and disposable e-cigarettes with a wide selection of flavored and unflavored liquids. Its products a ...

. The company was created in 2015 and has its production, headquarters, and regulatory compliance facilities located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

History

ITG Brands was formed in June 2015 as an American subsidiary of British conglomerate

. After competing tobacco companies

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and Lorillard Inc. merged in 2015, they were required by the FTC to divest four cigarette brands. Imperial then acquired cigarette brands Winston, Salem, Kool, and Maverick along with blu eCigs from the Reynolds American-Lorillard merger for $7.1 billion. Cigar brands already owned by Imperial included Backwoods, Dutch Masters, and Phillies. David Taylor, the CFO of Lorillard Inc. pre-merger, became ITG Brands’ first CEO in 2015. ITG Brands announced it would be closing the Reidsville manufacturing plant by April 2020, "affecting 117 manufacturing jobs." It planned to move manufacturing to

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. As of 2022, the number of Greensboro employees was down to 895 from 1700 in 2015. ITG Brands was one of three tobacco companies warned by the

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that "they did not have the agency’s approval to claim that their products were free of certain harmful substances, or that they posed less risk to consumers than other tobacco products." ITG Brands donated $25,000 to the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund to provide relief for

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. In 2019, Oliver Kutz was named as ITG Brands’ new CEO and president. He replaced Dan Carr, who had served as the second CEO and president for 16 months. Kutz previously served as Imperial Brand’s general manager of the Russia-AAAA (Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia) Division.

Brands

* Antonio y Cleopatra *

Backwoods Smokes Backwoods is an American brand of cigars that was introduced in 1973. This product was notable during the 1970s and 1980s for heavy advertising, which became one of the more obvious examples of how companies at the time reacted to changing laws ...

Crowns A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity. A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, partic ...

Dutch Masters Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence. The new Dutch Republ ...

* El Producto *

Hav-A-Tampa Hav-A-Tampa is a cigar brand currently owned by ITG Brands. It was founded in Tampa in 1902. The company's slogan "Won't you Hav-A-Tampa cigar?" was one of a handful that propelled the city towards the nickname "Cigar City." Its signature product ...

Kool Kool may refer to: People * Kool (surname), surname of Dutch origin * Robert "Kool" Bell (born 1950), American bassist and founder of Kool and the Gang * Roger Kool (1954–2005), Singaporean DJ (Roger Kiew) * Kool DJ Herc (born 1955), Jamaican� ...

Maverick Maverick, Maveric or Maverik may refer to: History * Maverick (animal), an unbranded range animal, derived from U.S. cattleman Samuel Maverick Aviation * AEA Maverick, an Australian single-seat sportsplane design * General Aviation Design Bureau ...

* Montclair *

Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. Since 2004, the team's home stadium has been Citizen ...

* Rave * Salem * Sonoma *

USA Gold USA Gold is an American brand of discount cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by ITG Brands, a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco. USA Gold brands were founded by Commonwealth Brands in 1991. History In 1991, Brad M. Kelley started Common ...

* White Cat * Winston

References

External links

* {{Imperial Tobacco Tobacco companies of the United States Imperial Brands Companies based in Greensboro, North Carolina