U.S. Tobacco Cooperative Inc.

U.S. Tobacco Cooperative Inc. (USTC) is a grower-owned agricultural cooperative headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. The cooperative is owned by 500+ U.S. flue-cured tobacco growers in 5 Southeastern states. Member grown tobacco is purchased, processed and sold globally. USTC also produces consumer products for the U.S. market under brand names of 1839, 1^st Class, Ace, Shield, Traffic, Ultra Buy and Wildhorse. Brands such as Timberlake, Grayson’s, Arc, Arena, Southfield in addition to Wildhorse and Ultra Buy are sold internationally.

USTC has five wholly owned subsidiaries; U.S. Flue Cured Tobacco Growers, Inc. (Timberlake, NC), a manufacturing company; Premier Manufacturing (St. Louis, MO), a consumer products sales and marketing company; and two distribution companies Big South Distribution (Bristol, VA, Fort Valley, GA and Suwanee, GA) and Franchise Wholesale d/b/a Wildhorse Distributing (Omaha, NE and Las Vegas, NV) and King Maker Marketing (Raleigh, NC).