US Smokeless Tobacco Company
The US Smokeless Tobacco Company (formerly: United States Tobacco Company) produces Smokeless Tobacco and has been a subsidiary of the Altria Group , Inc. since January 2009. The company is headquartered in Richmond , Virginia . Manufacturing facilities are in Nashville , Tennessee , Franklin Park , Illinois, and Hopkinsville , Kentucky .
The leading brands of the US Smokeless Tobacco Company are Copenhagen and Skoal . There are also brands in the low-price segment such as Red Seal and Husky .
The company's history begins in 1822 when George Weyman, the inventor of Copenhagen Snuff , opened a tobacco shop in Pittsburgh . In the 1860s he got his sons involved and it became Weyman & Sons Tobacco . After his death in 1870 the name was on Weyman & Bros changed. In 1905 Weyman & Bro. bought by the American Tobacco Company . After the American Tobacco Company was dissolved in 1912, the Weyman-Bruton Company was founded. In 1922 Weyman-Bruton became the United States Tobacco Company . This becomes the US Smokeless Tobacco Company in 2001 .
USST was bought in 2009 by the Altria Group , which also includes Phillip Morris .