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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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
News & Analysis
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Merger of RJR, Brown & Williamson hits snag at FTC
- 2004-06-11
Staff attorneys at the Federal Trade Commission have recommended that the proposed merger of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and Brown & Williamson Tobacco be blocked because it would reduce competition in cigarettes too much, two antitrust lawyers knowledgeable about the investigation say. The $3 billion deal would cut the number...
Antitrust Regulators to Puzzle over Possible Merger of Tobacco Giants.
- 2004-03-18
By Brian Louis, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 18--One of the biggest question marks over R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc.'s proposed purchase of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. is what antitrust regulators will or will not do about...
Strength in numbers?: R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson pull trigger on merger.(Special Report)(Company Profile)
- 2003-12-01
On Oct. 27, the cigarette world got a little smaller when R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N.C., and rival Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Louisville, Ky., announced that they would unite their United States operations in a $2.6 billion deal which many said is aimed at...
Miller, SAB merger complete. (Industry Watch).(Miller Brewing Co., South African Breweries PLC)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 2002-07-01
Philip Morris Cos. Inc. announced that the transaction to merge Miller Brewing Co. into South African Breweries plc, forming the world's second-largest brewer, SABMiller plc, has closed. Philip Morris Cos. Inc. received 430,000,000 shares in SABMille Philip Morris Cos. Inc. announced that the transaction to merge...
3: Merger Momentum; Snap, crackle, deals.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 2000-12-18
One word just about summarizes the year on the merger front: food. As a buyout boom swept through the industry, Quaker Oats Co. and Keebler Foods Co. became tasty takeover targets, while Philip Morris Cos., parent of Kraft Foods Inc., developed an One...
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...
Viacom up, CapCities down in 3rd quarter. (Capital Cities/ABC)(Brief Article)
- 1995-11-06
Capital Cities/ABC last week reported a third-quarter net earnings drop of 5%, due largely to costs related to the pending merger with The Walt Disney Co. and the settlement of a libel suit brought by Philip Morris, the cigarette manufacturer. ...
Cheese whizz. (Philip Morris and Kraft merger)
- 1988-10-22
IT WOULD be the second largest takeover ever (after Chevron's purchase of Gulf in 1984). It would create the world's biggest consumer-products company, with sales of $38 billion a year. And it would be a fine case study in the notion that, in the foo IT...
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