American Snuff Company

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American Snuff Company, LLC

Formerly	Conwood Sales Company LLC
Company type	Private (1900–86) Subsidiary (1986–)
Industry	Tobacco
Founded	1900; 124 years ago (1900) in New York City^[1]
Fate	Acquired by the Pritzker family in 1986, then traded to Reynolds
Headquarters	United States
Products	Dipping, chewing, snuff tobacco
Parent	Reynolds American
Website	americansnuffco.com

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]

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

Cougar
Grizzly
Kodiak

Chewing tobacco

Levi Garrett
Taylor's Pride
H.B. Scott's
Morgan's
Peachey
Hawken
Cannonball Plug
Mammoth Cave Twist
Cumberland Twist
Warren County Twist

Dry snuff

Garrett
Honest
Tube Rose
Peach
Dental

Discontinued

Moist Snuff

Wintermint

Chewing tobacco

Conwood
Moore's Red Leaf

Dry Snuff

Big Wheel
Big Bear Sweet Snuff
Rainbow

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Facilities on company website
^ "Conwood Sales Company LLC". Capital IQ. BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
^ "American Snuff Co LLC - Company Profile and News - Bloomberg Markets". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
^ "American Snuff Company, LLC - Company Profile". Vault. November 15, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
^ American Snuff Co Llc Taylor Brothers Div on USA.com, 1 Mar 2000
^ "Heritage". American Snuff Co. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
^ Brands on company website (9 Sep 2020)

External links

Official website

Reynolds American

Subsidiaries
and brands

RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company	Barclay Camel Capri Dakota Doral Eclipse Kent Lucky Strike More Newport Old Gold Pall Mall Tareyton True Vantage Viceroy Vila Rica
Reynolds Vapor	Vuse
American Snuff	Grizzly Kodiak Levi Garrett
Santa Fe Natural	Natural American Spirit

Predecessors

Former subsidiaries

SeaLand