ITG Brands, LLC is the third-largest American

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in the United States. It is an independent

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Imperial Brands Imperial Brands plc (originally the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain & Ireland, and subsequently Imperial Tobacco Group plc) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational tobacco company headquartered in Bristol, England. It is ...

. ITG Brands markets and sells multiple cigarette and cigar brands and sells blu eCigs. 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 multinational conglomerate

. After competing tobacco companies Reynolds American Inc. 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 close 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 Hurricane Florence. In 2021, Kim Reed was named as president and CEO. In 2023, ITG Brands forced the closure of the historic "Winston Cup Museum" located in Winston-Salem, NC due to numerous copyright lawsuits filed against the small business.

Brands

* Antonio y Cleopatra * Backwoods Smokes * blu eCigs * Crowns * Dutch Masters * El Producto * Hav-A-Tampa *

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* Maverick * Montclair * Phillies * Rave * Salem * Sonoma * USA Gold * White Cat * Winston * Zone

References

External links

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