Top 10 Biggest Tobacco Companies in the World in 2017

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4. Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO)

Score: 13

Next up on our list of the biggest tobacco companies in the world in 2017, we have Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO), which is an American corporation created in 1985 as the Philip Morris Companies. Since then, it has changed its name and is now the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton Inc, and a few others, with Philip Morris International branching out on its own in 2008.

Some of the brands Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) sells are Marlboro, Virginia Slims, and Chesterfield, to name a few.

Altria’s yearly sales hit $19.3 billion, while the company’s market value climbed up to $138.8 billion.

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