Turning Point Brands Inc (TPB) Financier

Turning Point Brands, Inc. engages in manufacturing, marketing, and distributing branded consumer products including alternative smoking accessories and consumables with active ingredients. The company is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky and currently employs 310 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2016-05-11. The company sells a range of products to adult consumers, consisting of staple products under the brands Zig-Zag and Stoker’s. Its segments include Zig-Zag Products (Zig-Zag) and Stoker’s Products (Stoker’s). Zig-Zag principally markets and distributes rolling papers, tubes, and related products; finished cigars and make-your-own cigar wraps, and other accessories. The company introduced Zig-Zag ‘Rillo-sized wraps, which are similar in size to cigarillos, a type of machine-made cigars. Stoker’s manufactures and markets moist snuff tobacco (MST) and contract for and market FRE, its modern oral product and contract for and market loose-leaf chewing tobacco products. Its products are available in approximately 200,000 in the United States retail locations which, with the addition of retail stores in Canada, brings its total North American retail presence to an estimated 220,000 points of distribution.