Altria Group: version 2

Saved 2026-09-21 10:02 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled both queue items and rebuilt the entry. Ownership: Identity now carries ownership_status: no_corporate_parent with ownership_source ^gleif-parent, because the LEI record XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219 (confirmed as Altria's by the CIK and LEI on its Wikidata item; the number in the first flag note was wrong, as the correcting note said) reports both a direct and an ultimate accounting-consolidation parent reporting exception with reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON, and the SEC submissions record shows Altria filing its own 10-K, most recently 2026-02-25 for 2025. About states that evidence instead of the bare assertion that it has no company above it. registered_address was indeed wrong for the field: it now holds the GLEIF legal address (c/o United Agent Group Inc., Suffolk, Virginia), and the Richmond address stays as the headquarters office row in Establishments, with About saying which is which. Also added from sources fetched this run: wikidata Q445007, founded 1985-03-01, register_ids LEI and US-VA:02675999 alongside the EIN, a Commons logo, and a second About paragraph on the 2003 renaming, the Kraft (2007) and PMI (2008) spin-offs and the Exhibit 21 subsidiary list. The Philip Morris Companies Inc alias now ends 2003-01-27, the legal name-change date GLEIF validates, with EDGAR's 2003-01-02 filer-name date named in About. New References rows: gleif-altria, gleif-parent, gleif-ultimate, altria-ex21 and wikipedia-altria; sec-altria, altria-companies and wikipedia were re-fetched and re-dated to 2026-09-21. No Relations section: nothing sits above this company and subsidiaries point up from their own pages (company/philip-morris-usa already carries owned_by, company/philip-morris-international spun_off_from). No Meta section, so nothing to drop. No cleanup flags filed: both sibling pages already carry their ownership rows.. Current is v3.

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# Altria Group <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Altria Group
summary: US tobacco group in Richmond, Virginia, listed on the NYSE as MO with no company above it; owner of Philip Morris USA, the maker of Marlboro.
legal_name: Altria Group, Inc.
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^gleif-parent
registered_address: C/o United Agent Group Inc., 425 W Washington St, Ste 4, Suffolk, VA 23434, United States
wikidata: Q445007
country: US
website: https://www.altria.com
register_ids: LEI:XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219, US-VA:02675999, US-EIN:133260245
founded: 1985-03-01
<!--/identity-->

## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                                                         | country | source      | note                                                                        |
| ---- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | office | 6601 West Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23230, United States | US      | ^sec-altria | Headquarters; the business and mailing address on the company's SEC record. |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                        | type   | locale | from | until      |
| --------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ---------- |
| Altria Group, Inc.          | legal  |        |      |            |
| Altria                      | search |        |      |            |
| Philip Morris Companies Inc | legal  |        |      | 2003-01-27 |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref              | url                                                                                               | title                                                         | accessed   | publisher                                 | kind         | published  | record_id            | locator                   | licence      | attribution            | upstream |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| gleif-altria     | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219                                     | GLEIF LEI record: Altria Group, Inc.                          | 2026-09-21 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry     |            | XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219 |                           | CC0          |                        |          |
| gleif-parent     | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219/direct-parent-reporting-exception   | GLEIF: Altria Group, Inc. direct parent reporting exception   | 2026-09-21 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry     |            | XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219 |                           | CC0          |                        |          |
| gleif-ultimate   | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219/ultimate-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: Altria Group, Inc. ultimate parent reporting exception | 2026-09-21 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry     |            | XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219 |                           | CC0          |                        |          |
| sec-altria       | https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000764180.json                                               | SEC EDGAR submissions: Altria Group, Inc.                     | 2026-09-21 | US Securities and Exchange Commission     | registry     |            | 0000764180           |                           | CC0          |                        |          |
| altria-ex21      | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764180/000076418026000017/exhibit21altriagroupincsub.htm  | Altria Group, Inc. Form 10-K Exhibit 21: Subsidiaries         | 2026-09-21 | US Securities and Exchange Commission     | registry     | 2026-02-25 | 0000764180-26-000017 |                           |              |                        |          |
| altria-companies | https://www.altria.com/about-altria/our-companies                                                 | Altria: Our Companies                                         | 2026-09-21 | Altria Group                              | manufacturer |            |                      |                           |              |                        |          |
| wikipedia-altria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria                                                              | Wikipedia: Altria                                             | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia                                 | publication  |            |                      | Lead and History sections | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |          |
| wikipedia        | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro                                                            | Wikipedia: Marlboro                                           | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia                                 | publication  |            |                      | Lead and History sections | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Altria Group, Inc. is the American tobacco holding company whose family of companies is Philip Morris USA, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, John Middleton, Helix Innovations and NJOY.[^altria-companies] It is incorporated in Virginia, has its headquarters at 6601 West Broad Street in Richmond and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker MO.[^sec-altria] No company stands above it: its LEI record reports neither a direct nor an ultimate accounting consolidation parent, both exceptions giving the reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON,[^gleif-parent][^gleif-ultimate] and it files its own annual report on Form 10-K, most recently for 2025 on 25 February 2026.[^sec-altria]

The legal entity dates from 1 March 1985 and carried the name Philip Morris Companies Inc. until a change of legal name effective on 27 January 2003; the SEC's record dates the filer's change of name to 2 January 2003.[^gleif-altria][^sec-altria] According to Altria the new name was adopted because the portfolio had grown beyond Philip Morris USA and Philip Morris International, and it then held an 84 % stake in Kraft Foods; Kraft was spun off in 2007 and Philip Morris International in 2008, and the company left the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2008 after those spin-offs.[^wikipedia-altria] Its registered address in Virginia is that of its registered agent, United Agent Group Inc., in Suffolk, while Richmond is the business and mailing address on its SEC record.[^gleif-altria][^sec-altria] It is registered in Virginia as entity 02675999, its LEI is XSGZFLO9YTNO9VCQV219 and its federal employer number is 13-3260245.[^gleif-altria][^sec-altria] Exhibit 21 to the 2025 Form 10-K names NJOY, LLC of Delaware and Philip Morris USA Inc., U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC and UST LLC, all of Virginia, as subsidiaries as of 31 December 2025.[^altria-ex21] Philip Morris USA owns and makes Marlboro in the United States; Philip Morris International, separate from Altria since the 2008 spin-off, owns the brand in most territories outside it.[^wikipedia]
<!--/about-->