Reynolds American (RAI), manufacturer of four of the top 10 best-selling cigarette brands in the United States , reported its third quarter results. The company reported earnings of $1.24, down 3.9% year over year. Despite the strong performance of the Conwood business and market share gains of brands like Camel, Pall Mall and Grizzly, net sales declined 5.3% year-over-year to $2.2 billion. The company’s cigarette shipment volume declined 11.0% due to wholesale inventory reductions associated with the Federal tax increase and also due to lower volume from the company’s non-support brands. During the quarter, industry cigarette volume declined 12.6%. The company’s growth brands, Camel and Pall Mall , gained a strong cigarette market share of 2.1 percentage points, bringing their combined share to 12.7%. This drove the company’s total cigarette market share to 45%. Camel, the company’s flagship brand, had a market share of ...

Reynolds American (RAI), manufacturer of four of the top 10 best-selling cigarette brands in the United States, reported its second quarter results. The company reported earnings of $1.29, and beat expectations by $0.14. Despite the strong performance of the Conwood business and market share gains of brands like Camel, Pall Mall and Grizzly, net sales declined 3.8% year-over-year to $2.3 billion. The company’s cigarette shipment volume declined 6.0% due to wholesale inventory reductions associated with the Federal tax increase and also due to lower volume from the company’s non-support brands. During the quarter, industry cigarette volume declined 4.1%. The company’s growth brands, Camel and Pall Mall, gained a strong cigarette market share of 2.6 percentage points, bringing their combined share to 12.7%. This drove the company’s total cigarette market share to 28.7%, up 0.4 percentage points. Camel, the company’s flagship brand, had a market ...

Company Overview Reynolds American, Inc. was created in 2004 by the merger of R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Holdings and British American Tobacco PLC, and is now the parent company of the operating companies listed below with their specialties. As a holding company, Reynolds American focuses on pleasing the stockholder, while the operating companies focus on pleasing their customers. To please stockholders, the management team at Reynolds American focuses on two things: increasing stock price and increasing dividends. The operating companies are as follows:

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company – U.S. market mostly. Sells 1 of every 3 cigarettes sold in the US. Brands include: Camel, Kool, Pall Mall, Winston, Salem, Doral, Misty, Capri, Lucky Strike, Barclay, Carlton, More, Now, Tareyton, Vantage, Viceroy. Conwood, Company, LLC specializes in smokeless tobacco products. Lane Limited is also part of Conwood. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company sells a line of additive free

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