U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company

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A tin of Skoal Mint.

The U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (formerly United States Tobacco Company) makes dipping tobacco. It is a subsidiary of UST Inc.

Its corporate headquarters is in Greenwich, Connecticut, and it maintains factories in Nashville, Tennessee, Franklin Park, Illinois, and Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Copenhagen and Skoal are the company's leading brands, and each represent more than USD$1 billion per year in retail sales. It also sells tobacco under the Rooster, Red Seal, and Husky brands.

Skoal offers various flavors:

Long Cut: Citrus Blend (brand new), Wintergreen, Mint, Spearmint, Straight, Cherry, Berry Blend, Apple Blend, Classic, Peach Blend, Vanilla Blend, Frost (discontinued), Key (limited market), Winter Blend (pre-frost/discontinued)
Fine Cut: Wintergreen, Straight.
Bandits: Wintergreen, Mint.
Pouches: Wintergreen, Mint, Apple Blend, Berry Blend, Citrus Blend, and Vanilla Blend.

Fine Cut has always been sold in tin cans. Long Cut was marketed in plastic tins until the early 2000s. Until recently, the corresponding colors would match the plastic base on Long Cut. All have been changed to black.

Skoal is one of the first moist tobacco manufactures to have created a product known as the "pouch", marketed as "Skoal Bandits". This product has a small amount of tobacco put in pouches made of a thin material, resembling a tiny tea bag.

Skoal and Copenhagen both offer pouch products, containing approximately three times that of the Skoal Bandits.