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  2. List of corporations with a major presence in Birmingham ...

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    As of 2023, Birmingham has two Fortune 500 public companies: Regions Financial Corporation and Vulcan Materials Company. [1] Multiple other Birmingham companies rank in the top 1000. Private companies with revenue over one billion

  3. Mac Baren - Wikipedia

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    The company was established in 1887, when founder Harald Halberg purchased Svend Bønnelycke's tobacco spinning mill [4] and continued as a modern tobacco factory under the name Harald Halberg Tobaks- og Cigarfabrik. (Harald Halberg Cigar- and Tobacco factories) [5] The company was renamed the Mac Baren Tobacco Company in 1995, [4] as the ...

  4. American Tobacco Company - Wikipedia

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    The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter, Goodwin & Company, and Kinney Brothers. The company was one of the original 12 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896.

  5. Brown & Williamson - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement of the Tube Rose snuff tobacco, from a catalog of the 1920 North Carolina State Fair. B&W was founded in Winston (today's Winston-Salem), North Carolina, as a partnership of George T. Brown and his brother-in-law Robert Lynn Williamson, whose father was already operating two chewing tobacco manufacturing facilities. [4]

  6. Rothmans, Benson & Hedges - Wikipedia

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    When British American Tobacco bought Rothmans in 1999, it spun off its 60% share of Rothmans, Benson & Hedges as a separate public company. In 2008, the remaining 60% of RBH was acquired by Philip Morris International (PMI), which had controlled 40% of the firm, for US$ 2,000 million, making PMI the sole owner of the company.

  7. W. T. Blackwell and Company - Wikipedia

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    W.T. Blackwell & Co. Tobacco was a tobacco manufacturer in Durham, North Carolina. It was best known as the original producer of Bull Durham Tobacco, the first nationally marketed brand of tobacco products in the United States. The Blackwell tobacco factory in Durham, built in 1874, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977.

  8. Black & White (Birmingham newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] A member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, [4] it described itself as "Birmingham's oldest and largest non-daily publication". [1] When Black & White suspended publication in 2013, Geiss initially intended to relaunch it with a new business model, [5] but this plan never came to fruition, and the paper ended up permanently ...

  9. The Night Riders - Wikipedia

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    The American Tobacco Company, also known as the Tobacco Trust, was one of the most sophisticated and highly financed industrial monopolies in the late 1890s. When the burley tobacco crop of 1906 and 1907 was boycotted by the ATC, farmers resorted to desperate measures. In the year 1908, more than 35,000 farmers in more than 30 counties did not ...