R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (R.J. Reynolds) is the second-largest tobacco company in the United States, manufacturing about one of every three cigarettes sold in the country.

R.J. Reynolds is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI). Reynolds American (RAI) is also the parent company of Conwood Company, LLC, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc., and R.J. Reynolds Global Products, Inc.

R.J. Reynolds has approximately 30 percent of U.S. cigarette sales. The company offers products in all segments of the market, and makes five of the nation's 10 best-selling cigarette brands: Camel, Kool, Pall Mall, Winston, Doral.

R.J. Reynolds is based in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The company's headquarters is located in the Reynolds Building. Built in 1929, the 20-story building was the South's first skyscraper and later became the model for the Empire State Building in New York City.

R.J. Reynolds' largest plant – Tobaccoville, a 2 million-square-foot facility constructed in 1986 – is located in the town of Tobaccoville, near Winston-Salem. The company's Whitaker Park plant, located in Winston-Salem, was built in 1961 and is about 1 million square feet. The company also has tobacco-sheet manufacturing operations and a significant research-and-development facility in Winston-Salem.

R.J. Reynolds has about 6,800 employees – principled, creative, dynamic and passionate people. They are proud of their company's principled approach to marketing a controversial product. And, the company is proud of its employees' determination to overcome business challenges, to always seek better ways to serve adult tobacco consumers and to be good corporate citizens.