Winston's 'Leave the Bull Behind' attitude is backed by its unique, additive-free product point-of-difference - naturally smooth tobacco taste.Īll registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Today, Winston remains one of top-10 cigarette brands in the world. In 1966 Winston cigarette brand reached its popularity, becoming the best-selling cigarette brand in the nation, a position which it held for a period of 10 years. Reynolds introduced Winston cigarettes - the first filtered cigarette to achieve major success on the tobacco market. Later, the new company, Brown & Williamson, leased a small facility, hired 30 employees, and began manufacturing in February 1894. Initially, the partnership took over the elder Williamson's business. Reynolds' factory, Winston, N.C., and the other one was in Caswell County, N.C. One of these factories was located in the same town as Mr. In 1893, George Brown formed a new partnership with his brother-in-law, Robert Williamson, whose father owned two tobacco factories. The brand was introduced in 1954, and became the best-selling brand of cigarettes in the United States. Reynolds saw two potential keys to business success: Winston was a production center for flue-cured tobacco leaf, and the town sat on a newly built railroad line. Winston cigarettes are manufactured by R.J. (Winston would later merge with the nearby village of Salem, creating the city known today as Winston-Salem).Īlthough the town of Winston had only a few hundred residents and no paved roads, Mr. Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded in 1875, when 25-year-old Richard Joshua Reynolds started a chewing-tobacco manufacturing operation in the town of Winston, N.C.