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TOBACCO OUTLET BUSINESS
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013
The 2013 TOB Top 50 List
The top 50 tobacco outlet chains of the year, by store count (as of 12/31/12):
Smoker Friendly International, Boulder, Colo.; 799 total authorized dealer locations,
86 of them company-owned under The Cigarette Store Corp.
Admiral Discount Tobacco, Coopersville, Mich.; 173 stores
*Tobacco Central dba Low Bob’s, South Bend, Ind.; 129 stores
Tobacco Superstores Inc., Forrest City, Ark.; 85 stores
Discount Smoke Shops, St. Louis, Mo.; 49 stores
Smokers Choice, Rock Hill, N.Y.; 48 stores
Smokers Outlet/Wild Bills Tobacco, Birmingham, Mich.; 46 stores
*Tobacco Connection/Big Smoke, Nampa, Idaho; 44 stores
*Brookshire Brothers (Tobacco Barn), Lufkin, Texas; 42 stores
Cheap Tobacco, Cincinnati, Ohio; 41 stores
*NBS Inc., Parkersburg, W.Va.; 39 stores
Kwik Trip (Tobacco Outlet Plus), LaCross, Wis.; 39 stores
Smokin’ Joes, Waymart, Pa.; 30 stores
Smoke Shop, Inc., Dyer, Ind.; 29 stores
*CLTS Inc./Dot Discount/Cigarette City, Newark, Del.; 27 stores
*Collett Enterprises Inc., Seymour, Ind.; 23 stores
Tobacco Plus Discount Outlet, Crowley, La.; 22 stores
A&K Wholesale (Discount Tobacco Outlets), Murfreesboro, Tenn.; 22 stores
TRO of North Carolina Inc. (Tobacco Road Outlets), Lakeview, N.C.; 22 stores
*Smokes 4 Less, Poughkeepsie , N.Y.; 21 stores
TBM Management, Pearl River, La.; 20 stores
Smoke ‘N Go, LLC (Cheap-O-Depot), Abbeville, La.; 20 stores
*Delta Distributors, LLC/Discount Tobacco Outlet, Andalusia, Ala.; 20 stores
Gateway Marketing, Inc./Tobacco Station USA, Texarkana, Ark.; 20 stores
Fast Lane Discount Tobacco, Lovely, Ky.; 19 stores
*Smokin’ Joe’s Tobacco & Liquor (formerly Cigarette Outlet), Davenport, Iowa; 19 stores
Cox’s Smokers Outlet, Louisville, Ky.; 18 stores
*Kocolene Mktg. LLC (Smokers Host), Seymour, Ind.; 18 stores
Puff Discount Cigarettes, Inc., Mill Hall, Pa.; 18 stores
Tobacco Road Inc., Jermyn, Pa.; 18 stores
Louisiana Discount Tobacco (Discount Tobacco Outlet), Shreveport, La.; 17 stores
William & Taylor Tobacco, Mullins, S.C.; 17 stores
*Cigaret Shopper, Brewer, Maine; 17 stores
Tobacco Shoppe/Save-A-Lot, Bowling Green, Ky.; 16 stores
Tobacco Depot, Tampa, Fla.; 15 stores
*JC’s Cigarette Outlet, Elizabethtown, Ky.; 15 stores
Ross-Lab Marketing, Inc. (Nothin’ Butt Smokes) Lubbock, Texas; 15 stores
Puff Super Value, Mill Hall, PA; 15 stores
*Klafters Inc., New Castle, Pa; 14 stores
Puff-n-Snuff Incorporated, Lock Haven, Pa.; 13 stores
Bo’s Smoke Shop, Elizabethtown, Ky.; 13 stores
Dirt Cheap Cigarettes & Beer , Fenton, Mo.; 13 stores
Tobacco Discount, Picayune, Miss.; 12 stores
*MGN Tobacco, Raleigh, N.C.; 12 stores
*Redi-Mart Tobacco LLC, Elizabethton, Tenn.; 11 stores
*Truax 2 LLC (formerly James Trenary Inc.), Salem, Ore.; 11 stores
Saver Group Inc., Campbellsville, Ky.; 10 stores
Town Crier Inc ., Mandeville, La.; 9 stores
*Hi Times Liquor Mart/Smoker’s Outlets, McCook, Neb.; 9 stores
*Blue Ridge Tobacco, Winston-Salem, NC; 8 stores
*Smoker Friendly authorized dealer