As the U.S. cigarette market dips, the nation's second-largest tobacco company, Reynolds American, announced Tuesday that it plans to buy the third-largest one, Lorillard, for about $27.4 billion ...

Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc.’s $25 billion deal to buy Newport maker Lorillard Inc. creates a formidable No. 2 tobacco company in the U.S. behind Marlboro maker Altria.

In a recent decision, the North Carolina Business Court in Lorillard Tobacco Company v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 2011 NCBC 30 (August 8, 2011) (“Lorillard”) has found that an unfair ...

British American Tobacco Plc will maintain a 42 percent ... between these brands being in the hands of a powerful company like Lorillard and being owned by an upstart like Imperial,” Balto ...

Lorillard, which was founded before the Revolutionary War and is the oldest continuously operating U.S. tobacco company, was spun off from Loews Corp. in 2008. The Greensboro, North Carolina-based ...

BOSTON — A jury has ruled the Lorillard Tobacco Co. tried to entice black ... in an attempt to get them to switch brands. But the company insisted it did not give cigarettes to children and ...

Sometimes a new high will have you scratching your head, but not in the case of tobacco company Lorillard. Unlike its rivals within the United States, including Altria (NYS: MO) and Reynolds ...

Longtime tobacco executive Susan Cameron ... That in itself is a hint as to the strategy behind her company's talks to acquire Lorillard Inc., which makes Newport cigarettes and Blu e-cigarettes.

Lorillard trades at a forward P/E of 15.6 ... You see, the Anglo-American tobacco company British American Tobacco owns 42% of Reynolds American. When British American originally acquired its ...

John McCoy, personal representative of the Estate of Glodine McCoy v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, Inc., and Lorillard Tobacco Company, ...