ABOUT U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY

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George Weyman, inventor of Copenhagen Snuff, opened a tobacco shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania more than 200 years ago.

While customers made his brand of tobacco one of the most popular in Pittsburgh, even Weyman himself could not have envisioned that his store would spawn a company that became the world’s leading producer and marketer of moist smokeless tobacco products, now called the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company.

Since its humble beginnings in 1822, USSTC has developed an American heritage and a close relationship with tobacco growers in Kentucky and Tennessee and manufacturing communities in Hopkinsville, Ky. and Nashville, Tenn. that continue two centuries later.

Our Leadership

USSTC became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc. in 2009. and is headquartered in Richmond, Va. Michael Brace, President & Chief Executive Officer, and his leadership team sets the strategic direction for our company.Our goal is to be the leading oral tobacco and oral nicotine products company with products that appeal to a diverse set of adult tobacco consumers and have the potential to reduce harm.

Our Moist Smokeless Tobacco Brands

Copenhagen leads our moist smokeless tobacco product portfolio.

A horizontal panel of four squares containing partial images of USSTC tobacco product. From left to right, there are zoomed-in photos of Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal and Husky packages.

Oral Tobacco Market Share

Approximately one out of every two MST consumers buys a USSTC brand. This chart summarizes retail share performance for USSTC's Oral Tobacco Products segment for 2024. Oral Tobacco Products Segment share was 37.5 percent.1

Three-dimensional pie chart in four colors – gray, green, brown and ivory - depicting market shares in oral tobacco. USSTC’s product shares are identified with Copenhagen in green at 19.1%, Skoal in brown at 7.6%, and their other products in ivory at 2.5%. The remaining portion of the chart in gray represents non-USSTC shares.

Our Employees

Our industry faces big challenges and we seek the best people to give us a talent advantage. Employees want challenging, meaningful work. They want to make decisions that matter and have purpose, while developing their careers. That’s why we’re focused on developing high-performing and engaged employees who will help us continue to deliver superior results in the future. 

Learn more about the employees of Altria and its companies.

 

 

1 Our oral tobacco products segment’s retail share results exclude international volume, which is currently not material to our oral tobacco products segment. Retail share results for oral tobacco products are based on data from Circana, a tracking service that uses a sample of stores to project market share and depict share trends. This service tracks sales in the food, drug, mass merchandisers, convenience, military, dollar store and club trade classes on the number of cans and packs sold. Oral tobacco products are defined by Circana as domestic tobacco derived oral products, in the form of MST and oral nicotine pouches. New types of oral tobacco products, as well as new packaging configurations of existing oral tobacco products, may or may not be equivalent to existing MST products on a can-for-can basis. For example one can of oral nicotine pouches, irrespective of the number of pouches in the pack, is assumed to be equivalent to one can or pack of MST. Because this service represents retail share performance only in key trade channels, it should not be considered a precise measurement of actual retail share. It is the standard practice of retail services to periodically refresh their retail scan services, which could restate retail share results that were previously released in these services.

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