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  1. eyjaygaming

    Laudisi/C&D is making their play

    Sorry to disappoint... But the volume that pipe tobacco manufacturers acquires is a drop in the bucket to cigarettes, literally. So we funnell off of that. The yearly amount of Mac Baren Virginia leaf ordered (I think last year it was 35x 40 foot containers) seems like a lot, but it's not. I...
  2. eyjaygaming

    “Spun Cut” Tobacco Question

    Great picture! The Roll Cake is just our bestseller Mac Baren Mixture Scottish Blend wrapped with a Virginia Outer leaf. So we have Ready Rubbed Virginia, Ready Rubbed sweetened Burley and a Cavendish that we make out of Dark Fired Kentucky which we call Original Cavendish. These are wrapped in...
  3. eyjaygaming

    Gladora

    Kopp Tobacco has the distribution rights for Gladora, with the exception of Russia and Turkey itself. It won't hit the US markets. Y'all have strict FDA rules about new tobaccos, making it impossible for new blends.
  4. eyjaygaming

    Thank you, Jens Therkelsen!

    Actually he was not, even though he is maybe only one of a dozen people on the planet that can grade and produce pipe tobacco on such a scale and intensity. Of course he test-smokes tobacco and even raw leaf when he visited Brazil or India and knew what good tobacco is. When asked regularly by...
  5. eyjaygaming

    Thank you, Jens Therkelsen!

    He can't know, and I'll tell you why! We produced it the same way with the receipe we received from Imperial when we bought the brand. STG had produced it for them for a long time before we took over - due to shortage issues Perique was removed back then (while also simultaneously removing the...
  6. eyjaygaming

    Thank you, Jens Therkelsen!

    There are unsung heroes in the pipe tobacco world, and Jens is definitly one of them. Jens Therkelsen was the production manager for Mac Baren - and today we had to say goodbye, as he had to leave the company. As production manager, Jens had been mainly responsible for half of the worlds pipe...
  7. eyjaygaming

    Mac Baren’s Investment in SNUS

    Just to be fair... Mac Baren has in its history produced cigars, snuff, chew, cigarillos, cigarettes, cigar fillers etc. They even were for many years the distribution for Marlboro cigarettes in Denmark. Snus was their attempt to compensate the rapid volume decline in pipe tobacco - the...
  8. eyjaygaming

    Just in from STG/MacBaren/Sutliff

    Whoaw Nellie... Chill my Dude. This was NOT, I repeat NOT, his decision.
  9. eyjaygaming

    STG Mac Baren/Sutliff Purchase - A Few Words from STG's Leonard Wortzel

    Just for context here guys: this is the closest thing we officially have of Sutiff closing. As of today, STG STILL HASN'T PUT OUT ANYTHING OFFICIALLY. We had to learn this from the Danish press and from Youtubers or Podcasters.
  10. eyjaygaming

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    Mac Baren has never produced Dunhill/Peterson. STG has produced this, even before it was called Peterson.
  11. eyjaygaming

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    Part one of your question: no idea Part two: yes!
  12. eyjaygaming

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    No 3+4: STG hasn't announced this. Just to clarify. This has been announced by the Danish press, as they interviewed Mac Baren staff. STG hasn't communicated anything yet. There's more information coming, eg a lot more happening, but this depends on if and how STG will communicate. Sorry, I...
  13. eyjaygaming

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    1. Yes! 2. I work for Mac Baren, which is owned by the Scandinavian Tobacco Group.
  14. eyjaygaming

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    I was physically there during the announcement. While I'm not authorized to speak about the planned new portfolio strategy etc., this Danish press article is factually correct.
  15. eyjaygaming

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    Second to last paragraph, Mac Baren USA = Sutliff
  16. eyjaygaming

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    Hey guys... So the news is out. STG will be completely closing the production facilities of Mac Baren in Denmark and Sutliff. There also have been tough decisions made about the STG/Mac Baren/Sutliff Portfolio which I'm not at liberty to write about. So I'll only post what is publicly available...
  17. eyjaygaming

    Has Anyone Tried Blends from Pfeifenstudio-Frank?

    Sure, they're produced by Kopp and Mac Baren. Good stuff. And Eigenmarken help support local Brick and Mortars.
  18. eyjaygaming

    Achim Frank, Inventor of the Frank Method

    The gentleman on the right. I'm on the left, Denton Gandy from Mac Baren.