U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
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U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (formerly United States Tobacco Company) is an American company that manufactures smokeless tobacco products, notably dipping tobacco, as well as chewing tobacco, snus, and dry snuff. The company is a subsidiary of Altria.
Its corporate headquarters are located in Richmond, Virginia, and it maintains factories in Clarksville and Nashville, Tennessee,[1] Franklin Park, Illinois, and Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Parent company
and US Smokeless Tobacco.Company history
- 1822–1870 – Mason Tour
- 1870–1905 – Weyman & Bros
- 1905–1911 – American Tobacco Company
- 1911–1922 – Weyman-Bruton Company
- 1922–2001 – United States Tobacco Company
- 2001–present – U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
During the 19th century, chewing tobacco was distributed throughout the United States by George Weyman. Weyman was the inventor of Copenhagen Snuff,[8] and after his death, Weyman & Bros was acquired by the American Tobacco Company.[9] It is today known as the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company.[10]
George Weyman was the father of two sons, William and Buckworth. After their father regained control of the tobacco company in the 1860s, he gave it to his two sons, when it was named Weyman & Sons Tobacco. Following their father's death, the brothers officially adopted the name Weyman & Bros Tobacco in the 1870s.
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