Laudisi owns Peterson. Correct? But Peterson is a part of Laudisi that still makes Peterson pipes. It's kind of interesting that SmokingPipes had their YouTube and Instagram updated with Peterson Carroll of Carrollton Pipes, but Peterson didn't. How does that work? The pipe still carries Peterson stamp.
Yes, Laudisi Enterprises owns Kapp & Peterson. Kapp & Peterson makes Peterson pipes in Sallynoggin, a neighborhood in south Dublin.
No indication it was one off for SPC. It's indicated Peterson limited pipe.
This was a small-run US-exclusive--pipes went to about twenty different retailers, but all in the US--which is why they're not on Peterson.ie. Similarly, if Peterson makes an exclusive series for the German market (or wherever), those are similarly not available on Peterson.ie.
This is for a couple of reasons: 1) when Peterson does a market-exclusive, it can't offer them out of market, so we can't sell them through Peterson.ie, 2) Peterson.ie is really global and often market-exclusives exist because they make sense for a specific market (like when you name a pipe series for an obscure signer of the Declaration of Independence).
As for Youtube and Instagram for Smokingpipes, it's the kind of thing SP would talk about on those platforms regardless of brand. And since Josh happens to be in the US right now, he and I did the video together for SP. In this case, it was particularly convenient since the two of us were really the primary architects for the Carroll of Carrollton project (which would surprise exactly no one who knows us).
If it's helpful, the company staff list on our corporate site helps things to make sense. There's a tab for US-based staff and a tab for Ireland-based staff. The only really continentally ambiguous person there is Josh, who is on the Irish tab because he's Managing Director of Kapp & Peterson, but again resides in the US (and whose bi-continental work plan was foiled by Covid) following a couple of years in Dublin. Here's the link to that:
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