UNIVERSAL CORPORATION — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 5 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

Filed by

Reported in-house

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Reported by firms

$1,700,000

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ thousands 2009 to 2026

Filings

81 filings, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report 1st Quarter 2026	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2025	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
1st Quarter - Amendment 1st Quarter 2025	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2025	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
1st Quarter - Amendmentreplaced 1st Quarter 2025	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2025	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
1st Quarter - Reportreplaced 1st Quarter 2025	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2024	THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	$30,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	42	$1,020,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	13	$420,000
ANDREAE & ASSOCIATES	7	$190,000
PAUL UNGER PLLC	4	$70,000
MANCHESTER TRADE LIMITED, INC.	3	—

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	54
Tobacco	TOB	49
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	49
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	LBR	35
Agriculture	AGR	24
Immigration	IMM	11
Government Issues	GOV	3
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	2
Foreign Relations	FOR	2
Health Issues	HCR	1
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	1
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)	FOO	1

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 1498	116th	8
S. 655	116th	8
H.R. 1136	115th	8
H.R. 5376	117th	7
S. 2952	118th	6
H.R. 1642	116th	6
S. 1837	115th	6
S. 2958	119th	5
H.R. 6399	118th	5
S. 3300	118th	5
H.R. 5038	116th	5
H.R. 4742	116th	5
S. 2463	116th	5
H.R. 281	115th	5
H.R. 4092	115th	5
S. 1823	116th	4
H.R. 2339	116th	4
H.R. 3229	116th	4
H.R. 7567	119th	3
H.R. 1603	117th	3
H.R. 6136	115th	3
H.R. 2878	115th	3
S. 1341	115th	3
S. 974	114th	3
H.R. 1848	114th	3

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.