Company expects to have $2.7 billion in hand at end of 2006 Read more from the Winston-Salem Journal article here.
Read moreMachinists, bakery groups join to form United Tobacco Alliance. Read more from the Winston-Salem Journal article here.
Read moreReynolds American Inc., the second- largest U.S. cigarette maker, agreed to buy Conwood for $3.5 billion to jump into the smokeless tobacco business. Conwood is the second-largest U.S. manufacturer of smokeless products with the Kodiak and Grizzly brands, Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Reynolds American said today in a statement. Conwood is being sold by Chicago’s Pritzker
Read moreApril 21, 2006 – With demonstrators on hand protesting China’s horrendous human rights policies, Chinese President Hu Jintao made his way to visit with President Bush today. Jintao’s U.S. visit comes amid continued concerns regarding the U.S.’s $202 billion dollar trade deficit with China and China’s failure to strengthen their artificially low currency. Despite weeks
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