Smoker Friendly acquires Collett stores

BOULDER – The Cigarette Store LLC, doing business as Smoker Friendly, has completed the acquisition of the Seymour, Indiana-based Collett Enterprises Inc. tobacco stores.

Collett opened its first tobacco store in 1994. It now boasts 30 stores, located across Indiana and Kentucky, which already have been displaying the Smoker Friendly name and logo as a longtime licensee of Smoker Friendly International. They will continue to offer Smoker Friendly cigarette and tobacco product lines, but Smoker Friendly will take over their operations.

“It has been a challenging 28 years in the retail tobacco industry, and I could not have done it without the…