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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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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BUYINS.NET: FITB, NVDA, YHOO, NWSA, DSCO, EBAY With Highest Daily Short Volume On NASDAQ Friday
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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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Senate Passes Tobacco Measure
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U.S. Supreme Court overturns 8th Circuit on cigarette case
- 2007-06-12
Tobacco giant Philip Morris Cos. lost federal court jurisdiction in a lawsuit challenging the design and promotion of the company's light cigarettes - a decision that could reach beyond the tobacco industry. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said Philip Morris couldn't use the federal officer removal statute...
Preemption still shielding tobacco companies from liability.
- 2007-03-01
The Department of Justice sued Philip Morris and other major tobacco companies in federal court in the late 1990s for violating the RICO statute by intentionally defrauding the American public through their marketing practices. The government alleged that the companies had sold cigarettes as "light," "ultra...
$10.1 billion award in 'light' cigarette case snuffed out
- 2006-01-08
The Illinois Supreme Court's recent decision overturning a $10.1 billion verdict in a class action filed by smokers of light cigarettes has handed a big victory to the tobacco industry. Rather than pursuing damages with a traditional product liability claim, the plaintiffs filed suit under a state...
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