Lorillard: ITG Brands to cut jobs at former Lorillard plant

ITG Brands, the U.S. division of Imperial Tobacco in Greensboro, is planning to cut an unspecified number of jobs at the former Lorillard tobacco plant on East Market Street due to a decline in the production of the Newport cigarette. The announcement was made at a regularly scheduled employee town hall meeting at the manufacturing facility in Greensboro this week. Mark Smith, spokesman for ITG Brands, confirmed to the Triad Business Journal that the company will lay off some of the 1,100 employees...