COMPANY

Maker of Chesterfield brand cigarettes. Formerly known as Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, formed 1911 by order of an antitrust court. The name did exist prior to the ruling as an earlier company. Liggett & Myers changed its name in 1976 to Liggett Group, though the old name is still used internally. In 1980 Liggett was acquired by food and beverage conglomerate Grand Metropolitan for $575M, but in 1986 sold it to Brooke Partners for $137M. Liggett Group is presently 100% owned by Vector Group, successor to Brooke Partners.

Official Website:
http://www.liggettgroup.com/

Industry:
Tobacco

Ticker:
(private)

Corporate headquarters:
Durham, NC

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Thomas F. Keller	Educator	22-Sep-1931		Dean of Fuqua School of Business, 1974-96

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
James Arness	Actor	26-May-1923	3-Jun-2011	Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke
Lauren Bacall	Actor	16-Sep-1924	12-Aug-2014	Key Largo
Lucille Ball	Actor	6-Aug-1911	26-Apr-1989	I Love Lucy
Ethel Barrymore	Actor	15-Aug-1879	18-Jun-1959	None But the Lonely Heart
Anne Baxter	Actor	7-May-1923	12-Dec-1985	The Razor's Edge
William Bendix	Actor	14-Jan-1906	14-Dec-1964	The Life of Riley
Constance Bennett	Actor	22-Oct-1904	24-Jul-1965	The Affairs of Cellini
Al Capp	Cartoonist	28-Sep-1909	5-Nov-1979	Creator of Li'l Abner
Janis Carter	Actor	10-Oct-1913	30-Jul-1994	B-Movie actress
Joan Caulfield	Actor	1-Jun-1922	18-Jun-1991	Dear Ruth
Marguerite Chapman	Actor	9-Mar-1918	31-Aug-1999	Coroner Creek
Claudette Colbert	Actor	13-Sep-1903	30-Jul-1996	It Happened One Night
Perry Como	Singer	18-May-1912	12-May-2001	It's Impossible
Gary Cooper	Actor	7-May-1901	14-May-1961	High Noon
Joan Crawford	Actor	23-Mar-1905	10-May-1977	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bing Crosby	Singer	3-May-1903	14-Oct-1977	White Christmas
Linda Darnell	Actor	16-Oct-1923	10-Apr-1965	Star Dust
Bette Davis	Actor	5-Apr-1908	6-Oct-1989	All About Eve
Yvonne De Carlo	Actor	1-Sep-1922	8-Jan-2007	Lily on The Munsters
Olivia de Havilland	Actor	1-Jul-1916		Gone With the Wind
Gloria DeHaven	Actor	23-Jul-1925		Summer Holiday
Joe DiMaggio	Baseball	25-Nov-1914	8-Mar-1999	Where have you gone
Ellen Drew	Actor	23-Nov-1915	3-Dec-2003	If I Were King
Anita Ekberg	Actor	29-Sep-1931		Artists and Models
Rhonda Fleming	Actor	10-Aug-1923		Spellbound
Glenn Ford	Actor	1-May-1916	30-Aug-2006	Gilda, Blackboard Jungle
Mona Freeman	Actor	9-Jun-1926	23-May-2014	Streets of Laredo
Clark Gable	Actor	1-Feb-1901	16-Nov-1960	Gone With the Wind
Judy Garland	Singer	10-Jun-1922	22-Jun-1969	Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
Arthur Godfrey	Actor	31-Aug-1903	16-Mar-1983	Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
Betty Grable	Actor	18-Dec-1916	2-Jul-1973	The Girl With the Million Dollar Legs
Barbara Hale	Actor	18-Apr-1921		Della Street on Perry Mason
Susan Hayward	Actor	30-Jun-1918	14-Mar-1975	I Want to Live!
Rita Hayworth	Actor	17-Oct-1918	14-May-1987	Gilda
Ben Hogan	Golf	13-Aug-1912	25-Jul-1997	Won 63 golf tournaments
Bob Hope	Comic	29-May-1903	27-Jul-2003	Centenarian comic
Betty Hutton	Actor	26-Feb-1921	11-Mar-2007	Incendiary Blonde
Harry James	Musician	15-Mar-1916	5-Jul-1983	Big Band-era bandleader
Nancy Kelly	Actor	25-Mar-1921	2-Jan-1995	The Bad Seed
Deborah Kerr	Actor	30-Sep-1921	16-Oct-2007	From Here to Eternity
Veronica Lake	Actor	14-Nov-1922	7-Jul-1973	Sullivan's Travels
Hedy Lamarr	Actor	9-Nov-1913	19-Jan-2000	Actress, invented frequency hopping
Dorothy Lamour	Actor	10-Dec-1914	22-Sep-1996	My Favorite Brunette
Carole Landis	Actor	1-Jan-1919	5-Jul-1948	A Scandal in Paris
Piper Laurie	Actor	22-Jan-1932		Catherine Packard in Twin Peaks
Peggy Lee	Singer	26-May-1920	21-Jan-2002	Is That All There Is?
Carole Lombard	Actor	6-Oct-1908	16-Jan-1942	My Man Godfrey
Joe Louis	Boxing	13-May-1914	12-Apr-1981	The Champ
Fred MacMurray	Actor	30-Aug-1908	6-Nov-1991	The Absent-Minded Professor
Ethel Merman	Singer	16-Jan-1908	15-Feb-1984	There's No Business Like Show Business
Ray Milland	Actor	3-Jan-1907	10-Mar-1986	The Lost Weekend
Patricia Morison	Actor	19-Mar-1914		Dressed to Kill
Patricia Neal	Actor	20-Jan-1926	8-Aug-2010	The Day the Earth Stood Still
Kim Novak	Actor	13-Feb-1933		Vertigo doppelganger
Maureen O'Hara	Actor	17-Aug-1920		Miracle on 34th Street
Tyrone Power	Actor	5-May-1913	15-Nov-1958	Witness for the Prosecution
Stefanie Powers	Actor	2-Nov-1942		Hart to Hart
Ernie Pyle	Journalist	3-Aug-1900	18-Apr-1945	Scripps-Howard war correspondent
Basil Rathbone	Actor	13-Jun-1892	21-Jul-1967	Played original Sherlock Holmes
Ronald Reagan	Head of State	6-Feb-1911	5-Jun-2004	40th US President, 1981-89
Donna Reed	Actor	27-Jan-1921	14-Jan-1986	The Donna Reed Show
Ruth Roman	Actor	22-Dec-1922	9-Sep-1999	Champion
Jane Russell	Actor	21-Jun-1921	28-Feb-2011	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rosalind Russell	Actor	4-Jun-1907	28-Nov-1976	Auntie Mame
Ann Sheridan	Actor	21-Feb-1915	21-Jan-1967	Torrid Zone
Frank Sinatra	Singer	12-Dec-1915	14-May-1998	It's Frank's world, we just live in it
Alexis Smith	Actor	8-Jun-1921	9-Jun-1993	Here Comes the Groom
Ann Sothern	Actor	22-Jan-1909	15-Mar-2001	Private Secretary
Barbara Stanwyck	Actor	16-Jul-1907	20-Jan-1990	Double Indemnity
Jan Sterling	Actor	3-Apr-1921	26-Mar-2004	Ace in the Hole
Ed Sullivan	TV Personality	28-Sep-1902	13-Oct-1974	The Ed Sullivan Show
Gene Tierney	Actor	19-Nov-1920	6-Nov-1991	Laura
Ann Todd	Actor	24-Jan-1909	6-May-1993	The Sound Barrier
Alida Valli	Actor	31-May-1921	22-Apr-2006	The Third Man
Jack Webb	Actor	2-Apr-1920	23-Dec-1982	Joe Friday in Dragnet
Jane Wyman	Actor	5-Jan-1917	10-Sep-2007	Falcon Crest
Loretta Young	Actor	6-Jan-1913	12-Aug-2000	Platinum Blonde

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