As Winston-Salem-based Reynolds American marks its 150th anniversary this year, it plans to add 300 jobs in 2025, driven mainly by expanding its smokeless nicotine product portfolio, the company says. Reynolds, the U.S. unit of British American Tobacco and descendant of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, be gan production of its Velo Plus oral smokeless nicotine pouch last fall in its Reynolds Operations Center in Tobaccoville, a community straddling the Forsyth-Stokes county line north of Winston-Salem. According to a statement Friday from Borgia Walker, senior vice president for human resources and inclusion at Reynolds American, the company hired for more than 500 jobs in 2024, the majority of which were directly related to the expanding smokeless lines, mainly Velo Plus, and “aligning our sales force to be even more competitive in the market.” Read the full story on the Triad Business Journal’s website. ...read more read less