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British American Tobacco Plc (LSE: BATS) is the second largest cigarette company in the world.
Established in 1902, when the United Kingdom's Imperial Tobacco Company and the American Tobacco Company of the USA agreed to form a joint venture, the British-American Tobacco Company Ltd. The parent companies agreed not to trade in each other's domestic territory and to assign trademarks, export businesses and overseas subsidiaries to the joint venture.
Imperial Tobacco gradually reduced its shareholding, but it was not until 1980 that it divested its remaining interests in the company.
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 1955 Annual Report, the American Tobacco Company
The Company is also informed that none of the nominees was directly or indirectly the beneficdal owner on FebraalT 1, 1956, of outstanding securities of subsidiaries of the Company, other than directors" qualif~Sng shares, except William H. Ogsbury, wbo owned beaefieially on that date two shares of Common Stock o£ Cuban Tobacco Company Inc. Mr.
Tke aggrngate amount of remuneration :~or the C~seal year 1955, re~elved from the Company and its subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, on an accrual basis, by all the directors and officers of the Company a.s a group, was approximately sixteen one-hundredths of 1% of the Company's consolidated net sales.
The Company is also informed that none of the nominees was directly or indirectly the beneficial owner on February 1, I956, of otttstanfilng securities of subsidiaries o~ the Company, other thou directors' qualifying shares, except William H. Ogsbury, who owned beneficiaIly on that date two shares of Common Stock o~ Cuban Tobacco Company Inc. Mr.
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  British American Tobacco - SourceWatch
This article is part of the Tobacco portal on Sourcewatch, sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation.
that the tobacco companies defrauded the public by concealing the health risks of smoking for more than five decades." The lawsuit is scheduled to go to court September 21, 2004.
The Butt Littering Trust, a group funded mainly by the world's second largest cigarette company, British American Tobacco, has been funding education campaigns to clean up cigarette butts in partnership with some local councils, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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 Deposition of John H. Hager
Let me go through the warnings that the tobacco companies have agreed to have appear on their packages and in advertisements in the event that this settlement is enacted into law.
American Tobacco tried to produce its products according to the specifications that were issued by the department of research and development, and part of the purpose of the specifications was to maintain a uniformity, a consistency in product delivery to the consumer so that we wouldn't be accused of fraud.
Whatever reconstituted tobacco was done for economy purposes to reclaim all tobacco by-products and produce in a paper machine process reconstituted tobacco that then could be blended fl into the process in the cigarette factory.
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 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
Tobacco was grown in many sections of the country having diversity of soil and climate, and therefore was subject to various vicissitudes resulting from the places of production, and consequently varied in quality.
The latter company maintains a branch office in New York city, and the vice president of the American Tobacco Company is a principal officer.
The Porto Rican-American Tobacco Company (Porto Rico)-Capital $1,799, 600.
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 Court TV Tobacco Litigation Documents: Arch v. American Tobacco
The Tobacco Companies' insistent and affirmative denial that nicotine is addictive, coupled with their pervasive advertising, promotional and public relations strategy, is designed to and has effectively nullified the public's meaningful appreciation of the nature and extent of nicotine dependence.
The Defendants' warranted that the Tobacco Companies' cigarettes were not addictive, that the Tobacco Companies did not manipulate the nicotine levels in their cigarettes, and that the Tobacco Companies did not intend to addict or maintain the addiction of the Plaintiffs and Class members.
The Tobacco Companies' cigarettes were expected to and did reach the Plaintiffs and the members of the Class without substantial change in their condition as manufactured, manipulated and sold by the Tobacco Companies.
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 Litigation Documents: State of New Mexico et al. v. American Tobacco Co., et al.
American Brands, Inc. is the parent corporation of or the successor in interest to The American Tobacco Company and has participated in the manufacture and distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products throughout the United States, including the State of New Mexico, both individually and through its alter ego the defendant American Tobacco Company.
The Tobacco Institute, Inc., is a New York corporation, whose principal place of business is located at 1875 "I" Street, N. W., Suite 800, Washington, D.C. The Tobacco Institute, Inc., at all relevant times operated as the public relations and lobbying arm of the Defendant tobacco companies.
The addition of nicotine to tobacco in such a way that it remains inert and stable in the product, and yet is released in a controlled amount into the smoke aerosol when the tobacco is paralyzed, is a result which is greatly desirable.
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 Litigation Documents: Minnesota: Order Imposing Sanctions Upon The American Tobacco Company and Brown & Williamson ...
Plaintiffs’ request for sanctions against The American Tobacco Company ("American") and Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation as successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company ("BandW") came on for hearing on December 9, 1997, before the Honorable Kenneth J. Fitzpatrick.
American’s own purposeful actions in an attempt to divest itself of documents and corporate relationships were responsible for BandW’s subsequent alleged inability to comply with discovery requests and the Orders of the Court.
American and BandW as successor by merger to American retain the right to assert affirmative defenses to the extent any are otherwise available.
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 1890: American Tobacco Company - Bensonwiki
When the companies joined to become the American Tobacco Company, they already were producing ninety percent of the country’s tobacco products—causing the company to be nicknamed the “tobacco trust”.
The American Tobacco Company became one of the first leading holding companies in the United States, and as industry grew it became the model for many other companies and mergers.
Though eventually the antirust acts forced the company to break in the early twentieth century, the American Tobacco Company remains in the history of many of today’s tobacco manufacturers.
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 The American Tobacco Company
Yuille was born in Halifax County, Va. As a young man he became associated with the American Tobacco Company at Durham, N.C. In 1901 he came to the company's office here and in 1912 became a vice president of the company.
James B. Duke resigned as president of the American Tobacco Company, and became head of the British-American Tobacco Co. He was replaced by Percival S. Hill, former president of the American Cigar Company and Vice President of American.
He first worked on their American Tobacco account in 1929; he joined the firm as a director and assistant to President George Washington Hill in 1931, and was President of American Tobacco from 1950 to 1963.
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 - Collecting Tobacco Baseball Cards
By and large, Americans worked hard, leisure activities flourished, and cigarettes became not only socially accepted but, at least for men, smoking was "the thing to do." By 1912 there existed a full-fledged card collecting frenzy with nearly 75 different baseball series issued.
In 1909 the stage was set for the release by the American Tobacco Company of America's famous T -206 series of baseball major and minor leaguers.
There are dozens of variations of tobacco advertisements on the back of both card sets which, as expected, serve to even further entice the hoards of collectors and enhance their collectibility.
www.fcassociates.com /collecting_tobacco_baseball_cards.htm   (1755 words)

  
 ORDER IMPOSING SANCTIONS UPON THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY AND BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION AS SUCCESSOR ...
Plaintiffs’ request for sanctions against The American Tobacco Company ("American") and Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation as successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company ("BandW") came on for hearing on December 9, 1997, before the Honorable Kenneth J. Fitzpatrick.
American’s own purposeful actions in an attempt to divest itself of documents and corporate relationships were responsible for BandW’s subsequent alleged inability to comply with discovery requests and the Orders of the Court.
American and BandW as successor by merger to American retain the right to assert affirmative defenses to the extent any are otherwise available.
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 Tobacco Baseball Cards
How shocked those tobacco mavens would be to know that almost a century after their foray into baseball's rough and tumble game would there evolve the most famous and expensive baseball card of all time - the Honus Wagner T-206 tobacco card from 1909.
By and large, Americans worked hard, leisure activities flourished, and cigarettes became not only socially accepted but, at least for men, smoking was "the thing to do." By 1910 there existed a full-fledged card collecting frenzy with nearly seventy-five different baseball series issued.
Olbermann, who is a student of the history of early tobacco card issues, accurately pointed out to me that a decade or so before the manufacture of the T-206 set, Honus Wagner was featured in a cigar trade card donning his Louisville Colonels uniform.
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 Family loses landmark smoking case | HEALTH | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz
Their lawyer claims the tobacco giant failed to warn Pou of the dangers of smoking when it had a duty to do so.
The High Court has ruled that the tobacco company did not have a duty to warn the Invercargill woman of the dangers of smoking.
The legal argument was that the companies breached the duty of care they owed Pou by not warning her in 1968 that their products were addictive or caused lung cancer and by continuing to manufacture them knowing they were dangerous.
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Among the largest private collections of turn-of-the-century tobacco cards held by a public institution in the United States, Senator Richard B. Russell's boyhood baseball card collection is one of the hidden treasures of the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Study at the University of Georgia.
Other popular sets produced by the American Tobacco Company during this period include the T-205 "Gold Border" issue, a smaller quantity set featuring beautiful full-color player portraits outlined in gold trim, and the T-210 "Red Border" series, a large set of minor league players depicted in fl-and-white photographs.
This era of tobacco card production came to an abrupt end with the beginning of World War I. Imported tobacco products dried up when Turkey allied itself with Germany, and with its main competition gone, the American Tobacco Company halted production of baseball cards.
www.libs.uga.edu /russell/online-exhibits/baseball/about.html   (783 words)

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