Tobacco companies
Tobacco has been cultivated and used at least 3000 years, but the industrial revolution, created a great number of tobacco companies, large and small.
The oldest evidence of Tobacco plantations have been found in Mexico, and are from before 1000 BC.
Denmark
C W Obel
E. Nobel
FDB Cigar- og Tobaksfabrikker
N. Tørring
Nordisk Tobaks Kompagni
P. Wulff
Scandinavian Tobacco Company
Vilhelm Lange
Aage Lichtinger
England
Black Butler Company
The original company behind Pall Mall
British-American Tobacco Company
Carreras Tobacco Company
Godfrey Phillips Limited
Established in London in 1844
Imperial Tobacco Company
A part of British-American Tobacco Company since 1902.
John Player & Sons
Founded in 1877
Lampert & Butler
Established in 1834
Rothmans International
Founded in London in 1890
Sobraine of London
Founded in 1879
W.D. & H.O Wills
Founded in 1786
Japan
Sri Lanka
Japan Tobacco
Started in 1898 as a government monopoly
Ceylon Tobacco Company
Founded in 1906
United States of America
American Tobacco Company
A part of British-American Tobacco Company since 1902.
Larus & Bro.Co.
Richmond, Virginia.
Lorillard Tobacco Company
Founded in 1760
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
1875-2004 (Merged with British American Tobacco)
The maker of Camel Cigarettes and Prince Albert smoking tobacco.