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Imperial Brands British American Tobacco (Sri Lanka only) United Kingdom: 1894; 130 years ago () [18] Carpați: Sfântu-Gheorghe Tobacco Factory Romania: 1931-2010 Carroll's: British American Tobacco: Ireland: 1958; 66 years ago () [citation needed] Casino Associated Anglo-American Tobacco Corporation Philippines [citation needed] Caster: Japan ...
Lorillard Tobacco Company: New York City (found.) Tobacco [4] [34] [35] Defunct 2016; brand owned by Reynolds American. 1764–65 Baker's: Dorchester, Massachusetts (found.) Chocolate, confectionery [36] [4] [32] Now a brand of Kraft Heinz. 1764 The Hartford Courant: Hartford, Connecticut: Newspaper [37] 1767 McCrady's Tavern and Long Room ...
The Lorillard hogshead in 1789 featuring a Native American smoking Lorillard Snuff Mill, built 1840, photo 1936. The company was founded by Pierre Abraham Lorillard in 1760. In 1899, the American Tobacco Company organized a New Jersey corporation called the Continental Tobacco Company, which took a controlling interest in many small tobacco companies. [4]
The American Tobacco Company restructured itself in 1969, forming a holding company called American Brands, Inc., which operated American Tobacco as a subsidiary. American Brands acquired a variety of non-tobacco businesses during the 1970s and 1980s and sold its tobacco operations to Brown & Williamson in 1994.
The staging-area camps were named after various brands of American cigarettes; the assembly area camps were named after American cities. The names of cigarettes and cities were chosen for two reasons: First, and primarily, for security.
The Kinney Tobacco Company was an American cigarette manufacturing firm that created the Sweet Caporal cigarette brand and promoted it with collectible trading cards. Being a leading cigarette manufacturer of the 1870-1880s, in 1890 it merged with other companies to form the American Tobacco Company .
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. [1] [2] His name is also sometimes given as Peter Abraham Lorillard, [3] Peter Lorillard and Pierre Lorillard I.
A New York subsidiary was opened in 1902 to sell many of its cigarette brands. The name '"Marlboro"' was registered in the US in 1908 although no cigarette was marketed under this name until 1923. In 1924, the brand was launched. They were first marketed as "America's luxury cigarette" and were mainly sold in hotels and resorts. [9]