Pipe/Tobacco Industry Relations

[woodsroad]

STG owns both Stanwell and P&C.
It’s a good thing that STG didn’t get Peterson, or they might be closing the factory and farming out the work to Italian subcontractors, as they did with Stanwell. I wonder if keeping the Peterson plant open was a condition of sale?

 

[mso489]

Thanks woods'. Can't tell the players without a program.

 

[woodsroad]

Oh, and Unilever owns everyone. Or was that Kaft-Heinz? Mondelez?

 

[brian64]

I'm pretty sure it's Goldman Sachs that owns everyone.

 

[woodsroad]

Goldman-Sachs used to own my sock drawer, but I was able to obtain majority interest with a stock swap on a case of canned salmon several years ago.

 

[brian64]

^ It's a relief to know that. I'd hate to think of them repackaging your old socks and pawning them off to the unsuspecting on the open market.

 

[sablebrush52]

So the K&K Dunhill clones are actually being made? Are they for sale anywhere yet - US or abroad?

They're in distribution in Germany. I don't know where else. Will they make it to the US? If K&K decides to register them with the FDA for either the SE or Deeming process, then yes. If not, then probably no.

 

[sablebrush52]

K&K also make Fribourg & Treyer, as I understand it.

That's correct.

 

[daveinlax]

Where does Planta fit in? Do they make the fancy tins with the sealed plastic and or Mylar bags inside? Is Dan still made in house or outsourced to K&K? 8O

 

[swilford]

Got all that? Makes me dizzy. Did Laudisi start Smoking Pipes or buy it?

Laudisi started Smokingpipes. Or, rather, I started both at the same time. I wanted to start Smokingpipes, but I wanted an innocuous company name that wasn't tied to Smokingpipes.com or to my name, hence Laudisi Enterprises.
I won't answer for the whole industry here (mostly in the interest of not writing paragraphs and paragraphs), but here's quick Laudisi timeline:
2000: Registered Smokingpipes; incorporated Laudisi Enterprises, Inc. Smokingpipes sold its first pipes and pipe tobacco.
early 2005: Opened Low Country Pipe & Cigar in Little River, SC
late 2012: Created LDG to distribute Savinelli pipes, pipe tobacco (which, as pointed out, is made primarily by Mac Baren and Kohlhase these days) and accessories.
early 2014: Purchased Cornell & Diehl from the Tarlers
mid 2017: Incorporated Laudisi Ireland, Ltd. as holding company for Smokingpipes Europe
mid 2018: Purchased Kapp & Peterson, Ltd., which includes everything except for the Peterson tobacco brand (so, the pipe brand, factory, the shop on Nassau St and the distribution business in Ireland).
For a semi-complete list of what LDG distributes in the US, go to www.laudisi.com. Peterson stuff isn't there yet, but will be in about a week (a certain storm system named Florence has a little behind on some site updates there).
For a company overview, history and staff list for the US company (we'll add the staff in Dublin when we get a few other things sorted out), go to corporate.laudisi.com.
I hope that clarifies our little corner of all of this, at least.
Sykes

 

[swilford]

Where does Planta fit in? Do they make the fancy tins with the sealed plastic and or Mylar bags inside? Is Dan still made in house or outsourced to K&K? 8O

Both Dan and Planta are both independent German manufacturers.

 

[uncleblackie]

So, business is good :puffpipe: