<div id="subtitle">Altria announces departure of UST executive, following integration of smokeless business</div><div><p>Altria Group Inc. said on Friday that Murray S. Kessler, chief executive of the smokeless tobacco company UST Inc., will leave the company at the end of June after overseeing key ...
<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Altria Group Inc <MO.N> said it will seek a further review of a federal jury verdict against it that threw out $24 million in tax refunds from investments in utilities and other assets.</p><p>The largest U.S. tobacco company argued its ...
<div id="subtitle">Federal jury rejects Altria Group's $24 million tax shelter claim</div><div><p>A federal jury has rejected a $24 million tax refund claim filed by tobacco company Altria Group Inc.</p><p>The IRS challenged tax deductions the Richmond, Va.-based company made ...
<div id="subtitle">Altria 2Q profit up and co. hikes forecast as cuts help offset falling cigarette volumes</div><div><p>Even though Americans bought fewer cigarettes in the second quarter, profit rose 9 percent at Altria Group Inc., owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, Philip Morris ...
<div id="subtitle">Cigarette sellers beat Wall Street: higher prices, cost cuts offset strong dollar, tax hike</div><div><p>Two of the world's biggest cigarette makers reported Thursday that they emerged from the second quarter in better shape than analysts expected, having raised prices and cut costs ...
<div id="subtitle">Jury: Philip Morris USA should pay $13.8M in punitive damages to lung cancer victim's daughter</div><div><p>A jury on Monday recommended that cigarette maker Philip Morris USA should pay $13.8 million in punitive damages to the daughter of a longtime smoker who died ...
<div id="subtitle">Altria Group lifts regular quarterly dividend by 2 cents to 34 cents</div><div><p>Altria Group Inc., owner of Philip Morris USA, on Thursday boosted its regular quarterly dividend by 2 cents to 34 cents.</p><p>The company will pay the dividend on ...
<div id="subtitle">R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard sue federal govt to block marketing regs in new tobacco law</div><div><p>Two of the three largest U.S. tobacco companies filed suit Monday to block marketing restrictions in a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over ...
<div id="subtitle">Int'l Trade Commission to stop illegal Internet imports of counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes</div><div><p>The International Trade Commission has ordered U.S. customs officials to bar imports of import of counterfeit cigarettes bearing the trademarks of Philip Morris USA, the nation's No. 1 tobacco company ...
<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday reinstated an Alaska lawsuit against Altria Group Inc's Philip Morris USA by the survivor of a deceased smoker, saying her state product liability claims were not preempted by federal law and should ...
