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Oct 4, 2024

VCU eyes purchasing Altria’s Richmond research facility

Officials with Virginia Commonwealth University are discussing with the Altria Group the possibility of buying its 450,000-square-foot research building in downtown Richmond, the two parties acknowledged separately this week.  The Altria Center for Research and Technology, which opened in 2007, sits on more than four acres at 600 E. Leigh St. and is assessed for […]

Aug 30, 2023

Manufacturing 2023: JON MOORE

Head of the tobacco products manufacturer since 2019, Moore has worked under parent company Altria Group since 2003, serving as vice president of its heated tobacco products division and director of marketing for NuMark, Altria‘s early e-vapor subsidiary started in 2013. Today, he leads the nation’s leading cigarette producer, established in 1847 in London. Today […]

Altria's headquarters in Henrico County
Oct 27, 2022

Altria strikes $150M deal with Japan Tobacco

Altria Group Inc., the Henrico County-based tobacco giant, announced Thursday it is partnering with Japan Tobacco Group to sell heated tobacco products in the U.S. and worldwide, placing Altria in direct competition with Juul Labs Inc. and Philip Morris International Inc. The $150 million deal, in which Altria subsidiary Philip Morris USA has a 75% […]

Aug 29, 2022

Where there’s smoke

Updated Sept. 1, 2022 Henrico County’s Altria Group Inc. advertises on its website that it is “moving beyond smoking,” although the owner of Philip Morris USA still is one of the world’s largest producers of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Now the 6,000-employee, $26 billion corporation may have to move beyond smoking more quickly than […]

Altria's headquarters in Henrico County
Apr 28, 2022

FDA moves toward menthol cigarettes ban

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it plans to ban sales of menthol cigarettes, a billion-dollar industry in which Philip Morris USA has a 9.4% market share. Philip Morris USA, a subsidiary of Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc., manufactures Marlboro menthol cigarettes among its other brands, but R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.’s Newport cigarettes […]

Marge Connelly. Photo courtesy SCHEV
Oct 28, 2021

Altria names two new board members

Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc. announced the elections of two board members Wednesday and its third quarter earnings Thursday. Marjorie M. Connelly and R. Matt Davis joined Altria’s board of directors. “Both Marge and Matt bring a tremendous amount of senior-level public company experience,” Altria Board Chair Kathryn McQuade said in a statement. “I believe […]

Altria's headquarters in Henrico County
Mar 25, 2020

Altria commits $1M to coronavirus relief efforts

Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc. is committing $1 million to coronavirus relief efforts in the Richmond area and in other communities where it has manufacturing and agricultural assets.  “This is an unprecedented time, and it’s critical that businesses step up to meet the challenges in the communities where we live and work,” said Billy Gifford, […]

Howard Willard
Mar 20, 2020

Altria CEO Howard Willard contracts coronavirus

Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc. CEO Howard Willard has tested positive for COVID-19 and is taking a temporary medical leave of absence, Altria‘s executive vice president and general counsel Murray Garnick told all salaried and hourly employees through a memo released late Thursday. “Howard has been out of the office for several days, and we […]

Altria's headquarters in Henrico County
Mar 19, 2020

Philip Morris USA suspending Richmond manufacturing operations after second coronavirus case

Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc. has temporarily suspended operations at its Philip Morris USA manufacturing center in South Richmond after a second Philip Morris employee tested positive for COVID-19, Altria Director of Communications George Parman says. Altria expects the manufacturing center to suspend its operations for the next two weeks. “PM USA and Middleton will […]

Altria's headquarters in Henrico County
Mar 18, 2020

Philip Morris USA employee tests positive for COVID-19

A Philip Morris USA employee has tested positive for COVID-19, said Steve Callahan, managing director of communications, at Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc., the tobacco manufacturer’s parent company. Altria sent a message to all employees late Tuesday night notifying them about the matter, Callahan says. “For employees who were in contact with the affected employee, […]

Cliff Fleet Colonial Williamsburg
Dec 13, 2019

Colonial Williamsburg appoints new CEO

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has appointed Cliff Fleet, the former head of Philip Morris USA, as the organization’s ninth president and CEO. Fleet will start his new role on Jan. 1. Fleet, who served as president and CEO of the Henrico County-based cigarette manufacturer from 2013 to 2017,  will succeed Mitchell Reiss, who led Colonial […]

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