All Together Now: Inside U.S. Tobacco Cooperative

 

(Tobacco Business Magazine) U.S. Tobacco Cooperative (USTC) is a grower-owned marketing cooperative based in Raleigh, North Carolina. USTC produces U.S. flue-cured tobacco grown by over 650 member growers located throughout Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Tobacco grown by USTC’s members is processed and sold as raw material to cigarette manufacturers worldwide.
USTC has found success in the tobacco industry by building a business model centered completely around America—from the farmers that produce the crops to the tobacco that goes into popular cigarette brands sold around the country. Continued