Talk:Dunhill

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I'm not sure how to fix this. There's nothing here right now, but it's misleading-- there is no Dunhill Tobacco Company. Dunhill, with the death of the founder Alfred Dunhill, was split into a pipe company (which was retained by the Dunhill family), a luxury goods company (bought by a South African firm I need to look up the name of) and the tobacco rights were sold to BAT (British American Tobacco). Until now (until, well, the end of April 2005), Dunhill tobaccos have been made by Murray's in Belfast (a pipe tobacco factory owned by BAT). Some of the Dunhill tobaccos, including Dunhill Navy Rolls (which is on the European market only-- it's complicated based on intellectual property owned by Orlik of Denmark, which owns A&C Petersen, which owned rights in the US to Escudo, but EU IP remained questionable-- anyway, as I said, it's complicated. Orlik is half owned by BAT also) are made at the Orlik factory in Denmark, where production for the others (now that Murray's in Belfast is closing) will likely go. Anyway, the short and long of it is that that there is no Dunhill tobacco company. I could write the entry on Dunhill from its origins at the beginning of the 20th century until today, but I'm, well, a bit confused as to taxonomy and structure here and would appreciate a push in the right direction from someone who is a little more experienced with building Wikipedia entries from scratch.

Ugh. European tobacco industry incestuousness managed to confuse that paragraph. The point is that there is no Dunhill Tobacco Co. and that the Dunhill pipe tobaccos (among the best selling pipe tobaccos worldwide) are not owned by Dunhill, but rather are owned by BAT and made in both Northern Ireland (until the end of this month) and Denmark.

To be precise, there is a small production of hand blended tobacco at Dunhill's. It could be bought only in Alfred Dunhill shop in London.

Sadly, dating the end of 2005, London Dunhill shop doesn't sell tobacco products anymore.