Turning Point Brands, Inc.: Update to credit analysis following CFR upgrade to B1
Our credit view of Turning Point reflects its moderate financial leverage and good liquidity offset by weak competitive position relative to peers and exposure to secular declines in tobaccoTurning Point Brands is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as an independent provider of Other Tobacco Products. The company operates in three segments: Smokeless products, which manufactures and markets moist snuff and contract for and market loose leaf chewing tobacco products; Smoking products, which markets and distributes cigarette papers and related products, make-your-own (MYO) cigar wraps, MYO loose cigar smoking tobacco, cigars, and pipe tobaccos; and NewGen products, which markets and distributes liquid vapor products, tobacco vaporizer products, and certain other products without tobacco and/or nicotine.
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