SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Juul Settlement Money Going to SFUSD The SF Unified School District is getting a bunch of money from that Juul settlement; an arrest was made in a Wednesday freeway shooting in the East Bay; and Biden's fundraiser with Clinton and Obama in NYC raised $25 million.
Business & Tech Juul Labs Settles Lawsuit From 33 States Over Marketing to Teens For $440M Formerly San Francisco-based e-cig maker Juul Labs has just settled one of a slew of lawsuits that it's still facing over the marketing of its products to young people, and over the potential harms of its products.
Business & Tech Feds Order Juul to Pull All Products Off the U.S. Market The formerly SF-based Juul has been ordered by the FDA to pull all of its products off U.S. shelves, as regulatory scrutiny of the vaping industry starts to kick in.
Business & Tech Juul Relocates Headquarters to D.C. A week after we learned of layoffs at Juul Labs that were set to slash nearly a third of the company's workforce, news arrives that Juul is officially moving its headquarters out of San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
Business & Tech Juul Targeted Kids With Web Ads On Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, Lawsuit Claims Juul's annus horribilis looks to be extending into 2020 as a lawsuit has just been filed in Massachusetts with potentially some of the strongest evidence to date that the company was targeting children and teens with its marketing.
SF News Juul Lays off 650 People in Attempt to Cut Costs by $1 Billion Juul just smoked 16 percent of its staff, mostly in the marketing department, as the San Francisco e-cig maker continues its spiral.
Business & Tech Vaping Illnesses Linked To THC Pod Additive Vitamin E Acetate For the first time since the outbreak of lung illnesses associated with e-cigarettes earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control says it has identified a specific ingredient as a "very strong culprit": Vitamin E acetate.
Business & Tech Juul Knowingly Sold More Than a Million Contaminated Vape Pods, Fired Exec Claims A new lawsuit claims that former Juul CEO Kevin Burns dismissed concerns about contaminated and expired vaping pods, saying that half the company's customers are "drunk."
Business & Tech Under New CEO, Juul Drops Ballot Measure Campaign After Spending $11.6 Million On It Embattled e-cigarette maker Juul Labs is no longer going to be running ads in support of Prop C, the local ballot measure it bankrolled to overturn San Francisco's ban on vape products.
Business & Tech Juul CEO Steps Down; Layoffs Are In Store The CEO of Juul Labs, Kevin Burns, has stepped down and been replaced as the company continues to weather serious legal and political storms this year.
Business & Tech FDA Pens Strongly Worded Letter to Juul About Claims That Vaping Is Safer Than Cigarettes Swiftly on the heels of incendiary national news stories about the growing number of cases of serious vaping-related lung illnesses, the FDA issued a warning letter to SF-based Juul Labs saying the company has already violated federal regulations with its marketing claims.
Business & Tech CDC Issues Broad Warning About Vaping, and SF-Based Juul Is Not Having the Greatest Summer Some 200 people have come down with serious respiratory illnesses in recent months that are linked to street-purchased vape products. The CDC has now taken the unusual step of issuing a warning about vaping, despite there being no single product that's been identified as the culprit.
Business & Tech Juul CEO Full-On Apologizes For Teen Vaping As Vape Ban Ballot Fight Heats Up The San Francisco-based e-cigarette giant might have just taken a hit in their attempt to undo the local vape ban, as their CEO goes deer-in-the-headlights under tough questioning from CNBC.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Juul's Pro-Vaping Measure Qualifies For November Ballot The SFMTA has named a new interim director, the angry NIMBYs of the Embarcadero have filed their lawsuit over the Navigation Center, and Juul's measure to overturn SF's vape-sales ban has qualified for the ballot.
SF News San Francisco Supervisors Approve Ordinance To Outlaw E-Cigarette Sales The San Francisco Board of Supervisors just voted to approve two ordinances that will effectively ban all e-cigarette and vape-pod sales in the city limits — including mail-order sales delivered to SF addresses.
SF News Juul Just Bought A 28-Story Office Tower On Mission Street Worth an Estimated $400 Million If you had any doubt as to whether tobacco was still a winning business proposition in America in 2019, you should look no further than Juul. The SF-based e-cigarette brand just inked a deal to buy 123 Mission Street, a 28-story office tower with 363,000 square feet of highly valuable real estate.
