Our guest is Oscar House, the c.e.o. and president of Intertabac exhibitor US Tobacco Cooperative, a farmer owned flue-cured tobacco marketing cooperative in Southeastern United States. House talks to us about business with China, the market for flue-cured US leaf and US made cigarettes and cut rag. Due to the pandemic and disruptions in trade with China, US Tobacco declared bankruptcy in July 2021, and with trade to China restored, House explains how to successfully navigated to the company to re-emerge from bankruptcy only a year later with strong financials and operational positions.
Link to Tobacco Asia Podcast #18
The Tobacco Asia podcast is hosted by Thomas Schmid, contributing editor at Tobacco Asia magazine, and brought to you in conjunction with Business Insights, the new digital platform of Messe Dortmund and their InterTabac/InterSupply events, the world’s leading and largest tobacco exhibitions.