American Snuff Company

The American Snuff Company, formerly Conwood Sales Company LLC,[2] is a US tobacco manufacturing company that makes a variety of smokeless tobacco products, including dipping tobacco or moist snuff, chewing tobacco in the forms of loose-leaf, plug, and twist, and dry snuff.[3][4]

American Snuff Company, LLC
FormerlyConwood Sales Company LLC
TypePrivate (1900–86)
Subsidiary (1986–)
IndustryTobacco
FateAcquired by the Pritzker family in 1986, then traded to Reynolds
Founded1900 (1900) in New York City [1]
Headquarters
United States
ProductsDipping, chewing, snuff tobacco
ParentReynolds American
Websiteamericansnuffco.com

Originally established as "Conwood LLC" in 1900 in New York City, the company began manufacturing smokeless tobacco products in 1904 in Tennessee.[1] From 1986 to 2006, Conwood was owned by the Pritzker family of Chicago. The company is currently a subsidiary of Reynolds American, after being acquired in mid-2006 for $3.5 billion in cash. When Reynolds American acquired Conwood, Reynolds subsidiary Lane Limited was merged into it. The name "American Snuff Company" was assumed in 2010.

Nowadays the company has three facilities, two in Tennessee (Memphis and Clarksville) and the other in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.[1][5] As of 2017, American Snuff generated nearly 7% of Reynolds American's annual revenue.[6] The current President of American Snuff Company is Chris Gemmell.

Products and brands

Brands commercialised include:[7]

Dipping tobacco

Chewing tobacco
  • Levi Garrett
  • Taylor's Pride
  • H.B. Scott's
  • Morgan's
  • Peachey
  • Hawken
  • Cannonball Plug
  • Mammoth Cave Twist
  • Moore's Red Leaf
  • Cumberland Twist
  • Warren County Twist

Dry snuff
  • Garrett
  • Honest
  • Tube Rose
  • Peach
  • Dental

Discontinued

Moist Snuff
  • Wintermint

Chewing tobacco
  • Conwood

Dry Snuff
  • Big Wheel
  • Big Bear Sweet Snuff
  • Rainbow

References
  1. Facilities on company website
  2. "Conwood Sales Company LLC". Capital IQ. BusinessWeek. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  3. "American Snuff Co LLC - Company Profile and News - Bloomberg Markets". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  4. "American Snuff Company, LLC - Company Profile". Vault. November 15, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  5. American Snuff Co Llc Taylor Brothers Div on USA.com, 1 Mar 2000
  6. "Heritage". American Snuff Co. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  7. Brands on company website (9 Sep 2020)
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