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Lorillard Tobacco Company was an American tobacco company that marketed cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick, Old Gold, Kent, True, Satin, and Max. The company had two operating segments: cigarettes and electronic cigarettes.
Lorillard, oldest tobacco manufacturer in the United States, dating to 1760, when a French immigrant, Pierre Lorillard, opened a “manufactory” in New York City. It originally made pipe tobacco, cigars, plug chewing tobacco, and snuff.
Pierre Abraham Lorillard (1742 – 1776) was a French-American tobacconist who founded the business which developed into the Lorillard Tobacco Company, which claimed to be the oldest tobacco firm in the United States and in the world.
The P. Lorillard Tobacco Company is the nation’s oldest continuous manufacturer of tobacco products. It began in a snuff mill on land that is now part of the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx. Pierre Lorillard is said to have been New York’s first millionaire.
Here, the company could avail itself of several advantages: the Pennsylvania Railroad and Harsimus Yards for product distribution; a newly-arrived immigrant labor supply; nearby port location for the importing of spices to flavor various tobacco brands; and a municipal water supply system for safety measures.
Lorillard and Tobacco: 200th Anniversary P. Lorillard Company 1760-1960 ... Lorillard and Tobacco: 200th Anniversary P. Lorillard Company 1760-1960 by Lorillard. Publication date 1960-01-01 Publisher Lorillard Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor
Lorillard Tobacco Company was an American tobacco company that marketed cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick, Old Gold, Kent, True, Satin, and Max. The company had two operating segments: cigarettes and electronic cigarettes.
The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter, Goodwin & Company, and Kinney Brothers.
Lorillard Tobacco Company was an American tobacco company that marketed cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick, Old Gold, Kent, True, Satin, and Max. The company had two operating segments: cigarettes and electronic cigarettes.
Founded in 1760, Lorillard is the oldest continuously operating tobacco company in the US. Newport, Lorillard’s flagship menthol-flavored premium cigarette brand, is the top selling...