Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S to acquire Mac Baren Tobacco Company A/S
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For Europe, this is already irrelevant. With the 2030 agenda, we will have to hurry to smoke all the tobacco in storage.
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This makes me nervous about quality going down.
Guess I'd better stock up on HH blends before the inevitable qualitative discrepancies kick in.
Lick me crazy, but the same thing will happen with wine, whiskey and many other distillates. Quality will go down, and this industry will be museum history. I hope I am wrong.
Damn, I was afraid of this happening before long
Considering that pipe smoking is kind of a niche thing anymore, I was really surprised that there are as many different manufacturers as there are. I wouldn't have thought there were enough pipe smokers to support them.
The acquisition will have to pass muster with Danish, EU and US antitrust regulators, but yeah: bad news all around.
There aren’t that many. There are just a half dozen companies who make all the different pipe blends under different names. Losing Mac Baren presumably means now STG will also make the Sutliff blends, the Newminster line, Presbyterian, Capstan, etc. It’s just more homogenization in our little hobby.
If it's good for milk, it must be great for pipe tobacco!
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I was wondering about this so that's good to know.
Well that's a little sad, but historically from what I recall when STG has acquired other companies they usually just let the company keep doing what they're doing producing the same blends on the same machinery; the only difference being a minor change of text on the label. This does add some more context to Per Georg Jensen's recent departure from Mac Baren though, and if there does happen to be any change in the quality of their blends over the coming years that would be the reason I'd be more likely to point to.
I didn’t realize they allowed production on the original sites for blends they acquire. I was envisioning huge corporate vats of generic Virginia, Burley, etc. going into everything they make.
Hoping STG keeps Sutliff operations in Richmond as is, but sadly changes are very likely.
Please give some examples?
As far as I know, STG has closed the facilities of most every company that they have bought, with the exception of CI, which serves as their US distributor.
Lane, for instance. And Stanwell.....
The joys of the 'Corporate State' in action. Little or no competition, minimal choice but a fat healthy profit for those at the top. The same product in different tins. Reminds me of an old time Soviet Peoples Tobacco Collective No: 7 forced labor blend!
Nonsense! Everything they bought up in the US, they took back to Denmark. Once a Viking, always a Viking...
To paraphrase Henry Ford:
"Any blend you want, as long as it's Capt. Black"
"Any blend you want, as long as it's Capt. Black"