Lorillard Tobacco Company

Lorillard Tobacco Company is an American cigarette manufacturer incorporated in Delaware and based in New York at 1 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. . Lorillard makes Harley Davidson, Kent, Max, Satin, Newport, Old Gold, Style, Triumph and True brand cigarettes.

= Description =

The abbreviation for Lorillard Tobacco Company is LTC. As of May 1994, Lorillard was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lorillard, Inc., which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Loews Corporation, a conglomerate run by the billionaire Tisch family. Loews Corporation took over Lorillard in the late 1960s As of May 1994, the principal subsidiaries of Loews Corp. were:  Lorillard Inc., CNA Financial Corp, Loews Hotels Holding Corp., Bulova Corp. and Diamond M-Odeco Drilling Inc. .  Lorillard Tobacco Company was represented in the Castano case by Gordon, Arata, McCollam & Duplantis, New Orleans, and Shook, Hardy and Bacon P.C., of Kansas City. Loews divested itself of Lorillard in December 2007 to eliminate the overhang of tobacco litigation.

Lorillard documents

 * Report Synectics Problem Laboratory April 21, 22, 23 1976 (1976 brainstorming document)
 * Smoker Incidence by Age Groups (1981-Includes children down to age 13)
 * Lorillard Sales Position (1964, Kent "Safer image)
 * "The base of our business is the high school student"
 * Cigarette Filters and Polonium-210 (Radioactivity in cigarette smoke)
 * Cigarette Blimp (Idea to improve corporate image by advertising on "light, airy" blimps)
 * "Start them out young" (Youth marketing)
 * The tobacco industry's Colorado ballot measure
 * Kent and Newport Cigarettes Reaching the Black Community (Marketing cigarettes to African Americans)
 * Kent Micronite filter (Leads to documents about asbestos filter cigarettes)

Contact
Web site: http://www.lorillard.com/

Lorillard Tobacco Company External Affairs P.O. Box 10529 Greensboro, N.C. 27404-0529

Phone: (877)-703-0386 during regular business hours, Monday through Friday - 8:00 AM to 5:00