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NYC open-access fiber platform building neutral municipal ISP infrastructure; Ares Management Infrastructure Opportunities first digital investment ($4.3B fund) with 225-mile Colorado Springs Phase I network competing with UTOPIA for community broadband.
Underline Infrastructure is a New York City-based open-access fiber-optic network operator — backed by Ares Management (Infrastructure Opportunities strategy, first digital infrastructure investment from its $4.3 billion fund), FinTech Collective, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, and Emerson Collective — building intelligent fiber-to-the-home networks in partnership with municipalities across the United States as the nation's first intelligent community infrastructure platform. Founded around 2019 by Bob Thompson, Underline designs, finances, constructs, and operates fiber networks that serve as neutral public infrastructure available to multiple competing internet service providers. The company's Phase I deployment in Colorado Springs features a 225-mile fiber network connecting 24,000 homes and 4,000 businesses, with Phase II expansion underway to Fountain, Colorado and Salinas, California. Underline employs 88 people and provides speeds up to 10 Gbps for residential customers and 100 Gbps for enterprise customers.
Richmond VA tobacco and nicotine (NYSE: MO) ~$9.7B net revenue FY2024; Marlboro 40%+ US cigarette share, on! oral pouch competing with Zyn, 50%+ operating margins, ABI stake, competing with Reynolds/BAT.
Altria Group, Inc. is a Richmond, Virginia-based tobacco and nicotine company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MO) as an S&P 500 Consumer Staples component — manufacturing and selling cigarettes (Marlboro — the best-selling cigarette brand in the United States), smokeless tobacco (Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, Husky chewing tobacco/moist snuff brands), oral nicotine pouches (on! brand), and maintaining a 10.7% ownership stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev (SABMiller acquisition consideration shares) and a 35% stake in JUUL Labs (vaping — original $12.8B investment written down to minimal value following JUUL's regulatory and litigation difficulties) through approximately 5,500 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Altria reported revenues of approximately $20.6 billion (net revenues after excise taxes approximately $9.7 billion), with the cigarette segment (Marlboro generating 40%+ US cigarette market share) contributing the majority of operating income at 50%+ adjusted operating margins — the highest margins in the consumer staples sector reflecting cigarettes' inelastic demand and regulated market structure. CEO Billy Gifford has pivoted Altria's strategy from cigarettes toward smoke-free nicotine products: the on! oral nicotine pouch (acquired full ownership of Helix Innovations in 2023, rebranding as on! to compete with Swedish Match Zyn, the dominant US oral nicotine pouch brand) represents Altria's primary nicotine product diversification vehicle as cigarette volume declines 7-8% annually through consumer quit rates and secular health awareness trends.
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