ITG Brands, LLC is the third-largest American

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in the

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. It is a subsidiary 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

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. 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. Lorillard Tobacco Company was an American tobacco company that marketed cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick, Old Gold, Kent, True, Satin, and Max. The company had two operating segments: cigarettes and electronic cigarettes. The ...

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 *

* Crowns *

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 *

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), Jamaica ...

* Maverick * 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 Ci ...

* Rave * Salem * Sonoma * USA Gold * White Cat * Winston

References

External links

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