BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.0B
- Private
- US
Dow Jones Description
Mfr. of Cigarettes
Number of Employees 6,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Tobacco and Tobacco Product Merchant Wholesalers: 424940
Recent Events
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Former Smoker Wins Case Against Philip Morris
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BUYINS.NET: Discovery Laboratories DSCO Daily Short Sale Trading Volume Through 11-17-09. Over 56 Million Shares...
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BUYINS.NET: REGN, EGLE, VG, SSS, DSCO, SRDX Expected To Be Lower After Earnings Releases on...
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ATVI, FLEX, BRCM, DSCO, ONNN, AMLN With Highest Daily Short Volume On NASDAQ Tuesday
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The Bloom Is Off the Rose for Tobacco Claims
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Altria to Expand Snus Test
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Kansas City-area residents sue Philip Morris USA
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Corporate Evil: Eyes Wide Shut
BNET
- 2009-01-21
My esteemed Corner Office colleague has asked about which companies are truly evil in America. Interesting question, but his piece had a scent of apologia to it, so I thought I'd weigh in with some ideas: Don't be fooled if a company changes its name or morphs...
Tobacco companies to fire back in 280-billion-dollar clash with US government
- 2004-09-22
WASHINGTON AFP — Top tobacco companies were set to aggressively counter US government charges they lied to the public about the health risks of smoking in a 280-billion-dollar lawsuit that could bankrupt the industry. In the largest-ever US civil racketeering case, the government accuses tobacco companies of colluding for...
Major Health Organizations Differ on Numbers of People Secondhand Smoke Kills.
- 2002-10-18
By Darrin Stineman, The Salina Journal, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--Every major health organization in America believes secondhand smoke kills people. The question is, how many? A 1992 Environmental Protection Agency report indicated 62,000 Americans...
Big fat pay packets keep on coming.
- 2002-04-11
Apr 11, 2002 The Sydney Morning Herald ABIX via COMTEX -- Several US CEOs still managed to score large salary packages in 2001 despite a weaker economy and a stock market slump. The biggest earner was Oracle's Lawrence Ellison, who received a total package...
Two More Federal Circuits Reject Union Cases; Unbroken Trend Underscores Philip Morris Position
- 2000-09-05
Business Editors, Legal Writers NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 5, 2000 Two additional federal appeals courts have rejected union health fund lawsuits against the nation's tobacco companies. These decisions bring to seven the number of federal circuit courts that have sided with the industry in rejecting these types of lawsuits....
Business in brief
- 2000-02-04
Testimony begins in merger between power companies DENVER - State regulators heard testimony Thursday from supporters of a proposed settlement in the merger between the parent of Public Service Company of Colorado and a Minnesota-based power company. The three-member Colorado Public Utilities Commission took...
Business World
- 1997-12-10
Mercedes fixes its A STUTTGART, Germany AP -- Engineers have come up with a new version of the Mercedes A-Class that no longer has a tipping problem, the automaker announced Tuesday. The company said the car's newly engineered undercarriage allows it to withstand a test it previously...
Business World
- 1996-08-26
Booting out Marlboro man ATLANTA AP -- The Justice Department wants the Marlboro man ousted from the roof at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium because it says the sign shows up during broadcasts of Atlanta Braves' games. The department has subpoenaed film and television highlights because it believes...
Westvaco makes announcement
- 1995-06-20
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--June 20, 1995--Jack A. Hammond, a Senior Vice President of Westvaco Corporation and Manager of the company's Bleached Board Division, today issued the statement noted below. Westvaco is a major manufacturer of paper, packaging and chemicals.Philip Morris U.S.A. should be commended for decisive action to resolve taste...
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