Pyxus International, Inc. Announces Board Appointments
February 14, 2019 at 11:30 am
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Pyxus International, Inc. announced that it has appointed Daniel A. Castle, founder of Castle Brand Group, and Nathan A. Richardson, CEO and co-founder of Trade It, Inc., to its Board of Directors, effective February 12, 2019. Castle founded Castle Brand Group, in February of 2018 after serving in a number of consumer-facing brand management positions at companies including Sequential Brand Group, Saban Brands and Iconix Brand Group. Most recently, while at Sequential Brand Group, Castle served as the Managing Director of Corporate Development with a focus on growing the Martha Stewart Brand. Richardson is co-founder and CEO of online trading platform Trade It, Inc. Prior to founding Trade It, he served in a leadership role at several companies including Gilt Groupe's Gilt City and Gilt Man, AOL Live, Bloomberg Media, ContentNext, DowJones Online and Yahoo Finance. Earlier in his career, Richardson worked for various organizations located throughout Senegal, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Liberia.
Pyxus International, Inc. is an agricultural company. The Company is a provider of sustainable and traceable products and ingredients. The Company operates through its Leaf segment. Its core business includes tobacco leaf merchant business, purchasing, processing, packing, storing and shipping tobacco to manufacturers of cigarettes and other consumer tobacco products around the world. Its leaf tobacco operations deal primarily in flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos that are used in international cigarette brands. It processes tobacco in Company-owned and third-party facilities around the world, including in Argentina, Brazil, China, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Macedonia, Malawi, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Zimbabwe. Throughout the entire production process, from seed through processing and final shipment, its SENTRI traceability platform provides clear visibility into how products are produced throughout the supply chain, supporting product integrity.
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