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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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...
Altria Group and Philip Morris USA Express Full Support for Senate and House Legislation Providing FDA Regulatory Authority of Tobacco Products
- 2005-03-17
NEW YORK -- Altria Group, and its domestic tobacco company Philip Morris USA, welcome today the reintroduction of legislation to provide the Food and Drug Administration FDA authority to regulate tobacco products. The companies applaud the Senate and House sponsors, Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Representatives...
Altria Group and Philip Morris USA Applaud Senate Passage of Bill Granting the FDA Regulatory Authority Over Tobacco Products
- 2004-07-16
NEW YORK -- Today the U.S. Senate passed bipartisan legislation that would provide the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA with comprehensive, meaningful and effective authority to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products. Acting on a corporate tax bill to reduce punitive tariffs on American exports, the Senate amended the...
Senate committee rejects smoking ban on state beaches
- 2004-06-23
SACRAMENTO -- An attempt to snuff out smoking on California's city, county and state-owned beaches was rejected Tuesday by a state Senate committee as several Democrats refused to vote. The bill by Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, got only two votes in the Natural Resources Committee. ...
Altria Group and Philip Morris USA Applaud Today's Introduction of Senate and House Bills Granting the FDA Regulatory Authority over Tobacco Products
- 2004-05-20
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Illinois Senate Committee Rejects Plan to Rescue Philip Morris.
- 2003-04-04
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Lobbyist Record of Texas Democratic Senate Hopeful Kirk Draws Scrutiny.
- 2002-04-04
By Todd J. Gillman, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 4--Before he was a Senate candidate, before he was mayor of Dallas, Ron Kirk was a lobbyist for a law firm that represented liquor interests, oil and chemical companies...
Senate Tobacco Bill Alarms Many Insurers
- 1998-06-08
Insurers may have more to fear from tobacco litigation because of the latest amendment to legislation being considered in the U.S. Senate. Under an amendment introduced by Sens. Judd Gregg, RN.H., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., passed 6 1-39 by the full SenInsurers may have more to fear...
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