Final Shareholder Meeting For Altria Tobacco
It is not that common to find an article that so perfectly expresses what I feel and need to read, but this one does perfectly! Here is a company that is competing with itself, and winning, which is to say, it is losing. Marlboro, like any cigarette manufacturing giant, is painfully aware of the cultural shift away from smoking, and how that which was once looked up to is now frowned upon. And so, what does this compay do? The only logical thing! They go into the kind of tobacco business to which people turn when they are trying NOT to smoke! They make chewing tobacco, cigars, and other things that are known to help folks break the habit. Altria CEO conducts his final shareholder meeting By MICHAEL FELBERBAUMRICHMOND, VA. Outgoing Altria Group Inc. CEO Michael E. Szymanczyk finished his final shareholder meeting on Thursday much the same way as his first -- fielding attacks against the nation's largest tobacco company.The owner of top-...