13. Share Repurchase Programs

As of January 19, 2010, the Company completed its $750 million share repurchase program that was announced on July 27, 2009, after repurchasing an additional 1.1 million shares in January 2010 for $90 million at an average purchase price of $78.36 per share. In February 2010, the Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $250 million of the Company’s common stock, which was completed on May 26, 2010, after repurchasing 3.3 million shares at an average purchase price of $76.29 per share.

In August 2010, Lorillard, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors had approved a new share repurchase program authorizing the Company to repurchase in the aggregate up to $1 billion of its outstanding common stock. The Board of Directors amended this program in May 2011, authorizing an additional $400 million in repurchases for a total of $1.4 billion under this program. Purchases by the Company under this program may be made from time to time at prevailing market prices in open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, block purchases or otherwise, as determined by the Company’s management. The repurchases are funded from existing cash balances, including proceeds from the Company’s April 2010 issuance of the Notes (see Note 9 for a description of the Notes).

This program does not obligate the Company to acquire any particular amount of common stock. The timing, frequency and amount of repurchase activity will depend on a variety of factors such as levels of cash generation from operations, cash requirements for investment in the Company’s business, current stock price, market conditions and other factors. The share repurchase program may be suspended, modified or discontinued at any time and has no set expiration date. During the first half of 2011, the Company repurchased approximately 8.3 million shares of its common stock at an average price of $94.84 per share, for a total of $783 million. As of June 30, 2011, the maximum value of shares that could yet be repurchased under the amended program was $241 million.

As of June 30, 2011, total shares repurchased under share repurchase programs authorized by the Board since the Separation were as follows:


				Number of
	Amount			Shares
Authorized	Authorized		Completed	Repurchased
	(In millions)			(In millions)
July 2008	$	400	October 2008	5.9
May 2009		250	July 2009	3.7
July 2009		750	January 2010	9.7
February 2010		250	May 2010	3.3
August 2010 *		1,400		12.8

Total	$	3,050		35.4


*		As amended on May 19, 2011