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This Week in the Great Depression: When Small Cigarette Companies Challenged Big Tobacco
In June 1931, with the U.S. economy in a depression and leaf tobacco prices at 20-year lows, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. decided to increase the price of Camel cigarettes. This proved a truly bad idea. And the response of consumers and competitors offers
Oct 22, 2012
Bloomberg News
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Oct 25, 2012 17:55
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[Canada] Day 75: Trudel and Trudelle
If you could only choose one day to attend the Montreal trial of the Quebec class action suits, today would have been a very good one to select. The witness, Mary Trudelle, was interesting and likeable, the documents were fascinating, and the lawyers wer
Oct 25, 2012
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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Oct 25, 2012 17:41
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[Canada] Day 67: Under foreign influence
Mr. Hoult is a former heavy-weight in the former RJ-Reynolds empire. He is the one-time marketing boss for RJR-Macdonald (1979-1983), president of RJR-Macdonald (1987-88) and executive vice president for RJ-Reynolds USA operations (1988-89).
Oct 5, 2012
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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Oct 6, 2012 18:18
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[Canada] Day 66: Avoiding 'swingeing' regulations
Mr. Peter J. Hoult, a former marketing head and president of RJR-Maconald and marketing vice-president of RJ-Reynolds, testified for a third day . . . For three days Mr. Hoult has maintained an unabashed air of comfort about the business of selling cigar
Oct 4, 2012
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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Oct 5, 2012 14:17
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[Canada] Day 64: Marketing and Controversy
witness was Peter J. Hoult, who is both a former president of RJR-Macdonald (now JTI-Macdonald) and a former senior marketing executive with other branches of the now-reformulated Reynolds tobacco empire. His testimony was a whirl-wind tour of major theme
Oct 1, 2012
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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Oct 2, 2012 12:13
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[Canada] Day 63: Smooth Character
Today the trial met a fourth president, who was only one of many executives rotated through the company while it was owned by RJR-International. His name is Peter J. Hoult, and he worked at RJR-Macdonald for a total of seven years in the decade between
Sep 27, 2012
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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Sep 28, 2012 11:46
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[Canada] Day 53: Voice of the Pioneer
Morning in Victoria: Peter Gage reminisces about Macdonald Tobacco / Montreal morning: Silvana Conte does not grovel
Sep 5, 2012
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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Sep 6, 2012 14:07
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[North Carolina] Representative Charlie Rose, Tobacco’s Friend in the House, Dies at 73
a former United States representative from rural North Carolina who fought to protect the tobacco industry and its farmers when political and regulatory pressure on the industry were on the rise and smoking in steady decline, died on Monday in Albertvill
Sep 5, 2012
New York Times
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Sep 6, 2012 02:13
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[Canada] Former RJR executive to testify on smuggling
Apr 12, 2005
Globe and Mail (ca)
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Apr 13, 2005 00:00
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[Canada] Former RJR executive to testify on smuggling
Apr 12, 2005
Globe and Mail (ca)
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Apr 12, 2005 00:00