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Ask most folks in North Carolina about R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and they will mention its home in Winston-Salem, the iconic Camel, Winston, and Salem cigarettes. They may even known about the old RJR corporate headquarters designed by William F. Lamb. But probably no one, until recently, would have ever associated RJR Tobacco with art, until last year when the RJR Tobacco Company art collection became front page news when they made the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County the beneficiary of 3,000 pieces of artwork, plus memorabilia and collectables.
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24164
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Reynolds American, Inc., a tobacco company, is moving out of the building it has occupied since 1929 in favor of a plaza next door with more space. The building in Winston-Salem is an icon of art deco architecture and provided the inspiration for New York's Empire State Building.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 29 Issue 5, May 2009,
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24379
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R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. CEO F. Ross Johnson moved the company headquarters and mounted a management buyout. This ultimately shocked Winston-Salem citizens, since the company brought much-needed business to the city.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 11, November 1989,
p22-29, il
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31117
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Founded in 1875, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has grown from a small tobacco manufacturing partnership to multiple city plants and manufacturing. The Reynolds Company also has the distinction of producing the nation's largest-selling cigarettes: Camel, Winston, Salem, Prince Albert, and Days Work.
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12832
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Elected president of RJ Reynolds on 21 June 1960, Alexander Henderson Galloway will be the first president of the now international tobacco company. The company recently purchased German interests in anticipation of sharing in West Germany's booming economy as well as gaining access to the European Common Market.
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A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Alexander H. Galloway is the newly elected President of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Rising from clerk to President, Galloway has been an employee of the company since 1929 and member of the board of directors since 1951.
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12905
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The first president of RJR Tobacco Company not connected to the giant via family or business, Francis G. Carter, informally known as Bill, was elected to his position in 1959. Hired on as a salesman-trainee in 1934, aged 22, Carter steadily rose amongst his peers, excelling at salesmanship and continuously breaking records during the duration of his employment at RJ Reynolds.
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R.J. Reynolds inaugurated a unique profit-sharing plan, which was his secret to success as an organizer of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolds encouraged tobacco pioneers to participate in financing his company, and they were made millionaires.
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In one of the Camel cigarettes factories of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina you will find intricate and amazing machinery and equipment. Each cigarette is rolled by a machine and then hand inspected, while another machine puts the cigarettes into a package and adds a label.
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