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Lorillard Tobacco Company
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Lorillard Tobacco Company is an American cigarette manufacturer incorporated in Delaware and based in New York at 1 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016.[1]. Lorillard makes Harley Davidson, Kent, Max, Satin, Newport, Old Gold, Style, Triumph and True brand cigarettes.
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Description
The abbreviation for Lorillard Tobacco Company is LTC. As of May 1994, Lorillard was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lorillard, Inc., which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Loews Corporation, a conglomerate run by the billionaire Tisch family. [2][3] Loews Corporation took over Lorillard in the late 1960s [4] As of May 1994, the principal subsidiaries of Loews Corp. were: Lorillard Inc., CNA Financial Corp, Loews Hotels Holding Corp., Bulova Corp. and Diamond M-Odeco Drilling Inc. [5]. Lorillard Tobacco Company was represented in the Castano case by Gordon, Arata, McCollam & Duplantis, New Orleans, and Shook, Hardy and Bacon P.C., of Kansas City. Loews divested itself of Lorillard in December 2007 to eliminate the overhang of tobacco litigation. [6]
Lorillard documents
- Report Synectics Problem Laboratory April 21, 22, 23 1976 (1976 brainstorming document)
- Smoker Incidence by Age Groups (1981-Includes children down to age 13)
- Lorillard Sales Position (1964, Kent "Safer image)
- "The base of our business is the high school student"
- Cigarette Filters and Polonium-210 (Radioactivity in cigarette smoke)
- Cigarette Blimp (Idea to improve corporate image by advertising on "light, airy" blimps)
- "Start them out young" (Youth marketing)
- The tobacco industry's Colorado ballot measure
- Kent and Newport Cigarettes Reaching the Black Community (Marketing cigarettes to African Americans)
- Kent Micronite filter (Leads to documents about asbestos filter cigarettes)
Contact
Web site: http://www.lorillard.com/
Lorillard Tobacco Company
External Affairs
P.O. Box 10529
Greensboro, N.C. 27404-0529
Phone: (877)-703-0386 during regular business hours, Monday through Friday - 8:00 AM to 5:00
References
- ↑ D.B. complaint, 4/94
- ↑ Castano, Lorillard List of Affiliations 5/20/94
- ↑ Jonathan Stemple, Reuters Loews Tumbles on subprime February 11, 2008
- ↑ L. White, Merchants of Death, 1988
- ↑ Castano, Lorillard List of Affiliations 5/20/94
- ↑ Ruthie Ackerman, Forbes Magazine Loews Lets Lorillard Go
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