Corporate Profile for Philip Morris Companies Inc., dated Oct. 6, 1995.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company and many others. -0- Published date: Oct. 6, 1995 Company name: Philip Morris Companies Inc.
Address: 120 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10017
Telephone No.: 212/880-5000 Chief Executive Officer: Geoffrey C. Bible Chief Financial Officer: Hans G. Storr Investor Relations Contact: Michael Kenny Business number: 212/880-3428 Public Relations Contact: Nicholas Rolli Business number: 212/880-3460 Trading symbol: MO Industry: Consumer Products (Tobacco, Food, Beer) Company description: Philip Morris Companies Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MO) is the world's largest producer and marketer of consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one with 1994 sales of more than $65 billion. It has five principal operating companies: Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA. The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), a company that produces tobacco products, acquired Kraft for Inc., Miller Brewing Co. Inc., Philip Morris International Philip Morris International, (PMI) based in Lausanne, Switzerland, held a 15.5% share of the international cigarette market in 2005. Its brands, led by Marlboro and L&M, are sold in over 160 countries around the world. Inc., Philip Morris U.S.A. and Philip Morris Capital Corp. Philip Morris U.S.A. and Philip Morris International Inc. together form the largest and most profitable international cigarette operations in the world. The company's flagship cigarette brand, Marlboro, is the world's best-selling consumer packaged product. Kraft Foods Inc. is the largest retail packaged food company in the U.S. and Canada. Its products account for 10 cents of every dollar spent on branded food items in U.S. supermarkets. Together with Kraft Foods International, Kraft is the biggest international food company based in the U.S. and the second largest food company in the world. Miller Brewing Co. is the second-largest U.S. brewer and third largest in the world. The company's leading premium beers represent almost 25% of the premium beer segment in the United States. Philip Morris Capital Corp. is engaged in financial services activities. Its subsidiary, Mission Viejo Co., is engaged principally in land planning, development and sales in Southern California and Colorado. CONTACT: Philip Morris Companies Inc. |
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