Smokin’ price tag
29 September 2015
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The buyer is paying $5 bln for the overseas rights to the U.S. cigarette group’s American Spirit brand – a whopping 250 times earnings. It’ll allow Reynolds to exhale a cloud of debt as it focuses on U.S. sales. Its strategy is a handy guide for similarly challenged sectors.
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