U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company

The U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (formerly United States Tobacco Company ) produces Smokeless Tobacco and since January 2009, a subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc. The company is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The production facilities are located in Nashville, Tennessee, in Franklin Park, Illinois, and in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

The leading brands in the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company are Copenhagen and Skoal. In addition, there are brands in the low price segment, such as Red Seal and Husky.

The company's history begins in 1822 when George Weyman, inventor of Copenhagen snuff, opened a tobacco shop in Pittsburgh. In the 1860s he took his sons, and it was Weyman & Sons Tobacco it. After his death in 1870 the name was changed to Weyman & Bros. 1905 Weyman & Bro. purchased by the American Tobacco Company. After the dissolution of the American Tobacco Company in 1912 Weyman - Bruton Company is established in connection thereto. 1922 from Weyman - Bruton, the United States Tobacco Company. From this is 2001, the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company.

USST was bought in 2009 by the Altria Group, which also includes Phillip Morris heard.

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