Alliance One International
FarmingNorth Carolina, United States10001+ Employees
Alliance One International is an agricultural company based in Morrisville, North Carolina, in the Research Triangle Park region. Historically, its core business has been tobacco leaf, contracting with growers, processing leaves in its facilities, and selling to multinational tobacco product manufacturers. The company emphasizes sustainable and traceable outputs, providing responsibly produced agricultural products, ingredients, and services to a wide range of customers, and it works with about 300,000 farmers across five continents to help produce compliant crops. Through its transformation initiative, One Tomorrow, AOI is diversifying into higher-value lines such as legal cannabis, industrial hemp, and e-liquids, leveraging its agronomy and technology capabilities. It has pursued partnerships to strengthen its agronomic reach, including collaboration with Bayer Crop Science in Brazil to provide maize seeds and agronomic support to smallholder tobacco farmers.