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24-517: Doral may refer to: Businesses and brands [ edit ] Doral (cigarette) , an American brand Doral Financial Corporation , the holding company of Doral Bank Doral Hotel , now the Miami Beach Resort and Spa, Florida, U.S. Trump National Doral Miami , earlier known as Doral Country Club, in Doral, Florida, U.S. Doral, a trade name for

48-632: A New Jersey corporation called the Continental Tobacco Company, which took a controlling interest in many small tobacco companies. By 1910, James Buchanan Duke controlled Lorillard and the American Tobacco Company, even though Lorillard kept its original name. In 1911, the U.S. Court of Appeals found the American Tobacco Company "in restraint of trade" and issued a Dissolution Decree to the American Tobacco Company, which forced Lorillard to become an independent company again. In

72-562: A golf tournament held in Doral, Florida, U.S. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Doral . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doral&oldid=1192647077 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Masculine given names Hidden categories: Short description

96-639: A holding company for its tobacco assets in 2002; it proceeded to sell a minority stake in Carolina on the New York Stock Exchange . Loews controlled Carolina until May 10, 2006, when Loews Corporation sold 15 million shares of Carolina Group, lowering its holding from a controlling 53.7% to a plurality of 46.3%. The sale was valued at approximately $ 740 million. In 2006, Lorillard was convicted of racketeering under RICO, along with Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company . The Supreme Court has upheld

120-477: A single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted. In 2008, Lorillard Tobacco entered into a separation agreement with its parent company Loews and became an independent publicly traded company. To comply with FDA regulations, Lorillard had until June 22, 2010, to rebrand tobacco products marketed as "Lights", "Ultra-Lights", "Medium", "Mild", "Full Flavor", or similar designations to belie

144-547: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Doral (cigarette) Doral was first introduced in 1969 and is now available nationwide in the United States. Originally considered a premium brand, the cigarettes were re-branded in 1984 as a savings brand. This made Doral the first officially branded cigarette in the value-savings market. In 1984, The New York Times tested various "low tar" and "low nicotine" brands and

168-609: The Kool , Salem , Winston and Maverick brands) to secure the approval of the Federal Trade Commission to purchase the Lorillard Tobacco Company . This did not happen, however, and R.J. Reynolds still sells the brand today. Doral currently receives limited support from R.J. Reynolds, as Pall Mall has taken over as the company's primary discount brand. R.J. Reynolds made various poster advertisements to promote

192-462: The Doral brand. Magazine advertisements were done in comic strip format, such as one with a lion tamer worried about what his Doral pack sang. Doral's current slogan is "Premium Taste, Guaranteed". An early slogan was "Taste me!" done with female voices on broadcast commercials. This was lampooned by George Carlin in his 1972 stand-up bit "Sex in Commercials" . In 1972 and 1973, Doral

216-558: The Lorillard ' Kent Micronite' brand used a crocidolite asbestos filter, made by the Hollingsworth & Vose company, which later resulted in millions of dollars being paid to the relatives of their employees and customers who had died, or who were dying, of cancer . Loews Corporation purchased Lorillard in 1968. Testifying under oath before Congress in 1994, Lorillard's CEO Andrew Tisch said that he did not believe that nicotine

240-422: The assembly area camps were named after American cities. The names of cigarettes and cities were chosen for two reasons: First, and primarily, for security. Referring to the camps without an indication of their geographical location went a long way to ensuring that the enemy would not know precisely where they were. Anybody eavesdropping or listening to radio traffic would think that cigarettes were being discussed or

264-487: The brand names Newport , Maverick , Old Gold , Kent , True , Satin, and Max. The company had two operating segments: cigarettes and electronic cigarettes. The company was purchased by Reynolds American , a company owned by British American Tobacco , in 2015, a deal that was announced in 2014. The company was founded by Pierre Abraham Lorillard in 1760. In 1899, the American Tobacco Company organized

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288-456: The camp was stateside, especially regarding the city camps. Secondly, there was a subtle psychological reason, the premise being that troops heading into battle wouldn't mind staying at a place where cigarettes must be plentiful and troops about to depart for combat would be somehow comforted in places with familiar names of cities back home (Camp Atlanta, Camp Baltimore, Camp New York, and Camp Pittsburgh, among others). By war's end, however, all of

312-711: The divestiture of brands Kool , Winston , Maverick , Salem , and blu to Imperial Tobacco for $ 7.1 billion. The deal was finalized on June 12, 2015. Camp Old Gold was one of the American Army “ Cigarette Camps ” established near Le Havre , France, in World War II . As explained in "Introduction: The Cigarette Camps" at the Web site, The Cigarette Camps: The U.S. Army Camps in the Le Havre Area : The staging-area camps were named after various brands of American cigarettes;

336-420: The false impression that some tobacco products are comparatively safe. In December 2010, a Boston jury returned a $ 151 million verdict against Lorillard Tobacco Company for giving out free samples of cigarettes to children in urban housing projects in the 1950s. The plaintiff, Marie Evans, was nine when she first received these samples, according to documents filed by her attorneys. She died of lung cancer before

360-456: The first foray by the tobacco industry into the electronic cigarette market. The electronic cigarette company had about $ 30 million in revenue in 2010, with blu eCigs sold in more than 13,000 retail outlets, including Walgreens and Sheetz. In October 2013, Lorillard acquired UK e-cig company SKYCIG, which it later rebranded to blu ecigs UK. In July 2014, Reynolds Tobacco Company agreed to buy Lorillard for $ 27.4 billion. The deal also included

384-491: The nation. Old Gold later sponsored Artie Shaw 's Tuesday night "Melody and Madness" program on CBS Radio from November 20, 1938, until November 14, 1939. Belt was still president when he died in 1937. Lorillard Tobacco Company opened a new cigarette plant on East Market Street in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1956, moving cigarette manufacturing from Jersey City, New Jersey and Richmond, Virginia. Between 1952 and 1956,

408-617: The same year, Lorillard purchased the Murad brand . In 1925, Lorillard underwent a significant transition after Benjamin Lloyd Belt became president. Having been with the company since 1911, Belt made some decisions that made the company profitable. He began to prioritize promoting the Old Gold brand instead of Beech-Nut chewing tobacco , using such tactics as Old Gold on Broadway and sponsoring "Old Gold Presents Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra" which

432-494: The sleep medicine quazepam People [ edit ] Doral Moore (born 1997), American basketball player Doral Pilling (1906–1982), Canadian javelin thrower Other uses [ edit ] Doral, Florida , U.S., a suburb of Miami Aaron Doral , a fictional character from Battlestar Galactica The Doral, a character in the Robert A. Heinlein novel Glory Road See also [ edit ] Doral Open ,

456-448: The tests concluded that Doral King Size and Doral King Size menthol had 5 MG of tar, 0,4 MG of nicotine and 3 MG of carbon monoxide . In 1999, it was reported that, due to R.J. Reynolds' sponsoring of various sport sponsorships, the brand was the third largest tobacco brand after Marlboro and Newport . In October 2014, it was reported that R.J. Reynolds might add another brand that had to be sold off to Imperial Tobacco (along with

480-639: The trial. In 2014, after negotiations with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Lorillard announced it would no longer test its products on animals. In a statement, the company said it "will use scientifically accepted or validated alternative test methods and technologies that avoid the use of animals. Such methods and tests may include in vitro cell culture tests, advanced chemistry tests and computer modeling programs." In April 2012, Lorillard purchased privately held electronic cigarette company, blu eCigs , for $ 135 million in cash, marking

504-511: The verdict, in which Judge Kessler wrote, [W]hat this case is really about ... is about an industry, and in particular these Defendants, that survives, and profits, from selling a highly addictive product which causes diseases that lead to a staggering number of deaths per year, an immeasurable amount of human suffering and economic loss, and a profound burden on our national health care system ... In short, Defendants have marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception, with

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528-511: Was a sponsor of the NASTAR skiing competition, which they promoted with a "Doral-NASTAR Award". R.J. Reynolds also printed cigarette cards for Doral during the years 2000-2001. As of 2019, Doral held a market share of less than 1%. This product article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lorillard Tobacco Company Lorillard Tobacco Company was an American tobacco company that marketed cigarettes under

552-568: Was a weekly hour-long show on Tuesdays nights over CBS from station WABC in New York. The Whiteman Hour had its first broadcast on February 5, 1929, and continued until May 6, 1930. When the Whiteman band went to Hollywood in mid-1929 to make the film King of Jazz , Old Gold leased a special eight-coach train to take Whiteman and his entourage to the West Coast. The train stopped at sixteen cities across

576-519: Was addictive nor that cigarette smoking caused cancer. In 1997, the firm's headquarters moved to Greensboro from New York City. The firm also manufactured cigarettes in Louisville, Kentucky . In 1997, Lorillard was one of four entities to initiate negotiations leading to the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement between " Big Tobacco " and 46 U.S. states. Loews created the Carolina Group as

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