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...Altria, the tobacco company behind the Marlboro brand, said chief executive Howard Willard is leaving after less than two years at the helm, a tenure marred by a troublesome investment in e-cigarette maker...
...Mr Willard said that having personnel from both companies involved in the same projects had “created confusion”. Instead it will focus on helping Juul deal with regulation....
...The first-quarter results came just two weeks after Mr Gifford took the role, following the departure of his predecessor Howard Willard, who stepped down following criticism over his investment in vaping...
...US medical officials have linked 805 cases of lung damage, and 12 deaths, to e-cigarette use....
...Mr Willard told the FT that Juul had “taken a number of leadership actions — they’ve done more than any of the other vapour companies — but it’s still not enough”....
...US medical experts have tied hundreds of cases of lung damage to e-cigarettes. At least 12 deaths have been reported....
...“Of course, we’re not pleased to have to take an impairment charge on the Juul investment,” Howard Willard, chairman and chief executive, told Wall Street analysts....
...Altria chairman and chief executive Howard Willard, who is recovering from Covid-19, is leaving the Marlboro-maker after less than two years in the top job....
...Earlier this month, the agency said it was investigating whether the use of e-cigarettes increases the risk of seizures....
...Howard Willard, Altria’s chairman and chief executive, said concerns around his company’s future profitability based on its investment in Juul were “overstated”....
...He said that Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris US, still believed e-vapour had a “lot of opportunity” to convert cigarette smokers....
...The new “innovative” division will focus on non-combustible products seen as healthier alternatives like nicotine-containing oral products, e-vapour and other inhalable products....
...By Alireza Jafarzadeh, National Council of Resistance of Iran August 14th marks exactly 13 years since the day I walked into a conference room at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC to...
...I liked the crestfallen chief executive (Fred Willard) of “Buy and Large”, a kind of futuristic Halliburton that has collared every concern from space travel to Earth clean-up, before going belly-up with...
...The writer is a hedge fund manager at CL Willard Capital. www.cody willard.com...
...The writer is a hedge fund manager at CL Willard Capital. www.codywillard.com...
...Cody Willard is a hedge fund manager at CL Willard Capital cody@clwillard.com...
...In the process, Google makes lots of money selling advertisements as you retrieve your e-mail, making up for the revenue it forgoes by not charging users directly as Yahoo does....
...E.B. White’s children’s tale falls among digimators, though they restrict their liberties to making the animal mouth movements match, Babe-style, the anthropomorphic dialogue....
...Cody Willard is a hedge fund manager with CL Willard Capital. cody@clwillard.com...
...Cody Willard: Great stuff, Henry....
...Michael Gerson, the president’s speechwriter, Mark McKinnon, Bush’s media director, and Karl Rove, the chief political strategist, his head crooked over his BlackBerry as he scrolled through his incoming e-mail...
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