Altria Group Inc at Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference Transcript
Hi, if you could take your seats, please. Please join me in welcoming Altria back to CAGNY and thanking them for sponsoring the break, which will take place immediately after this presentation.
Clearly, the tobacco industry has been going through significant change over the last couple of years with Altria navigating regulatory changes and consumer shifts through alternative products. Altria is addressing these changes by taking a portfolio approach with traditional products complemented by multiple potentially reduced-risk products, which include the commercial rights to IQOS in the U.S., its investment in JUUL and on!.
2019 was a tale of 2 cities with strong operating profit growth of 9% in its core smokeable segment, while JUUL faced a more difficult year. Altria has a market-leading smokeless franchise and is well positioned in heat-not-burn with IQOS, which is the first product to have received authorization by the FDA to launch a heat-not-burn product in the U.S. under the premarket tobacco application.
2020 will clearly be a year where Altria continues its
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