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Winston was introduced in 1954 by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and quickly became one of the top-selling cigarette brands, using the slogan "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should". [7] It became the number one cigarette sold in the world by 1966, a position it held until 1972 when Marlboro overtook the brand. [8]
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1875 and changed its name to R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. in 1970.It became RJR Nabisco on April 25, 1986, after the company's $4.9 billion purchase, and earlier 1.9 billion stock swap, of Nabisco Brands Inc. in 1985.
On July 15, 2014, Reynolds American agreed to buy Lorillard Tobacco Company for $27.4 billion. [19] The deal also included the sale of the Kool, Winston, Salem, and blu brands to Imperial Tobacco for $7.1 billion. [20] In January 2017, Reynolds American agreed to a $49.4 billion deal to be taken over by British American Tobacco. [21]
Cigarette brands manufactured by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Pages in category "R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company brands" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
ITG Brands, LLC is the third-largest American tobacco manufacturing company in the United States.It is an independent subsidiary of multinational Imperial Brands.ITG Brands markets and sells multiple cigarette and cigar brands and sells blu eCigs. [1]
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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]
Reynolds used the slogan from Winston's introduction in 1954 until 1972. It is one of the best-known American tobacco advertising campaigns. In 1999, Advertising Age included the "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" jingle in its list of the 10 best radio and television jingles in the United States during the 20th century.