Tobacco Retail Industry Overview

Companies that retail cigarettes, snuff, cigars, chewing tobacco, and other tobacco products and accessories.

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POS Computer Systems

Many retailers now use bar coded sales tags to enter information into central computers at cash registers. These point-of-sale (POS) systems allow retailers to track sales of specific items daily, identify popular and unpopular items, track inventory, and automatically order more product.

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• British American Tobacco (Hong Kong) Ltd.
• British American Tobacco China Ltd.
• Holt's Cigar Company

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Hoover's has developed its own industry classifications to better serve its customers. These classifications are mapped to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the older U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Tobacco Retail maps to a number of NAICS codes including:

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• Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Retailing
  
• International Tobacco Growers' Association
  
• Tobacco Merchants Association
  

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