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
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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...
New Study Alleges Philip Morris Tried to Influence WHO
BNET
- 2009-01-02
A new study of previously confidential tobacco industry documents concluded that a Philip Morris scientist, Roger Walk, established close connections with a WHO Collaborating Center in Thailand, called the Chulabhorn Research Institute, and leveraged these relationships to help advance the interests of the cigarette maker in the country and across...
Philip Morris International Inc. Presents at JP Morgan Global Tobacco Conference
- 2008-06-27
NEW YORK -- Regulatory News: Philip Morris International Inc.'s (NYSE / Paris Euronext: PM) Chief Operating Officer Andre Calantzopoulos will address investors today at the JP Morgan Global Tobacco Conference at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in London. The presentation and Q&A session are being webcast live, in a...
Philip Morris International Inc. to Webcast Presentation at JP Morgan Global Tobacco Conference
- 2008-06-23
NEW YORK -- Regulatory News: Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE/Euronext Paris: PM) will host a live audio webcast of its presentation at the JP Morgan Global Tobacco Conference in London at www.pmintl.com on June 27, 2008, at approximately 9:25 a.m. London Time (4:25 a.m. ET). The webcast will...
Court Denies Tobacco Giants' Motions to Dismiss Claims Alleging Explicit Age Discrimination and Retaliation.
- 2008-02-27
NEW YORK, February 27 /PRNewswire/ -- - U.S. District Court Allows Claims Brought by Swiss-Based In-House Counsel To Proceed against Altria Group, Inc. and Phillip Morris International, Inc. Broach & Stulberg, LLP announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor...
Philip Morris USA to Introduce New Marlboro Moist Smokeless Tobacco Product into Test Market
- 2007-08-21
Marlboro Moist Smokeless Tobacco Available in October
Senate panel OKs federal rules for tobacco
- 2007-08-02
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee Wednesday embraced legislation that would for the first time allow federal regulation of cigarettes. The bill, approved 13-8 by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to restrict tobacco advertising, regulate warning labels and...
Marlboro Man rides into the sunset; For 1st time since 1955, Philip Morris ran no print ads for the brand.(News)(Statistical data)
- 2007-07-09
Byline: BRADLEY JOHNSON Crain News Service So long, cowboy. In 2006, for the first time since tobacco giant Philip Morris and Chicago ad agency Leo Burnett created the Marlboro Man in 1955, no Marlboro ads ran in U.S. consumer publications. ...
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...
Philip Morris USA Supports Institute of Medicine's Call for FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products
- 2007-05-24
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Institute of Medicine's IOM latest report on tobacco use in the United States demonstrates the critical importance of effective regulation of tobacco products by the Food and Drug Administration. Legislation introduced by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and John Cornyn (R-TX) and Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and...
