The wide-open market possibil-ities of the 1990s have left leaf dealers with a lot of choices as to where to place their resources. One company has bet heavily on the Far East as a profitable area for expansion in this decade, and with less than threeyears to go, a top executive at Standard Commercial says there are no regrets. Whit Kehaya, director of operations for Standard Commercial Tobacco Co., headquartered in Wilson, North Carolina, said the company's efforts in such countries as China, India, and Thailand have yielded such promise that Standard is building new facilities in new production areas as part of its growth strategy.
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