Tobacco Merchant: The Story of Universal Leaf Tobacco Company

Maurice Duke and Daniel P. Jordan vividly describe the colorful life and times of one of the South's-and America's-most important businesses and provide insight into how luck, management practices, and personalities helped the company rise to international prominence. Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, the world's largest independent leaf tobacco dealer, is one of the major buying arms for tobacco manufacturers worldwide, selecting, purchasing, processing, and storing leaf tobacco. The story open

Author: Maurice Duke, Daniel P. Jordan
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780813152004
ISBN10: 0813152003
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Infrastructure
- Business & Economics | Industries | Agribusiness
- Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History | General

About the Author

Maurice Duke, former journalist, is now professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Daniel P. Jordan is president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation at Monticello.

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