22nd Century Group

22nd Century Group Inc is a US-based company operating in Tobacco industry. The company is headquartered in Williamsville, New York and currently employs 56 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2006-10-17. 22nd Century Group, Inc. is a tobacco products company that enables cigarette smokers to take control of their consumption of nicotine, the addictive drug in cigarettes. The firm manufactures and distributes combustible tobacco products containing minimally or non-addictive levels of nicotine. Additionally, the Company provides turnkey contract manufacturing of cigarettes and filtered cigars for other established tobacco brands. The firm's product, VLN cigarette has 95% less nicotine than the traditional cigarette. The firm operates through a single segment named Tobacco. The company is engaged in contract manufacturing organization (CMO) customer contracts that consist of obligations to manufacture the customers' branded filtered cigars and cigarettes. The company is also engaged in the sale of its proprietary low nicotine content cigarettes, sold under the brand name VLN, or research cigarettes sold under the brand name SPECTRUM.