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Post by trailboss on Oct 20, 2019 1:04:49 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 20, 2019 1:12:55 GMT -5
Nope. I wonder if the president will get involved. 50% tariffs on imported tobacco. 😩🤯☠️☠️
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Post by chasingembers on Oct 20, 2019 1:27:13 GMT -5
Saw this a couple of days ago. Just a sign of the times and more reason to fill the cellar. In ten to twenty years only the rich will be smoking, if at all. Cellar deep and wide for the bad days.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 1:50:11 GMT -5
That is bad news. I wonder how many people were employed there. Better stock up on your favorite Lane blends.
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Post by crapgame on Oct 20, 2019 2:50:38 GMT -5
holy crap!! Sutlif is still my friend!
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Post by daveinlax on Oct 20, 2019 10:17:40 GMT -5
Sadly an end of an era. Some of my favorite bulk tobaccos out of the Tucker factory that I'm stocked up on are aged 1Q, EMP and Crown Achievement. The bright spot is that I like the taste of tobacco out of the Orlik factory in Demark as well.
Long ago a buddy told me about a visit to Lane Ltd in Tucker and seeing a long line of 18 Wheeler's loaded with Green River burly waiting to be tipped into the production line.  |
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 20, 2019 11:07:05 GMT -5
As has been said, it's a sign of the times indeed.
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 20, 2019 11:41:25 GMT -5
I can see in the future that our tobacco prices will go up from this company, but I hope not.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 20, 2019 12:18:41 GMT -5
Sorry to see this happening...and mow Florida is planning/thinking about taxing internet sales...making my #'s of tobacco go to over $100.00 per pound depending on prices.
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Post by calabash on Oct 20, 2019 14:03:34 GMT -5
I guess I'll stockpile some 1-Q and BCA.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 20, 2019 15:17:15 GMT -5
I imagine that distribution isn’t stopping here in the states, just the production facility will be gone, consolidating production (it says in the release) and/or cheaper employees elsewhere.
The owner of the B&M that our pipe club meets at told us that him and Max Stokkebye were going to plan a blending seminar in November with specials and swag.... wonder if that will happen now, Max is employed by STG.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 15:46:09 GMT -5
Appreciate what we've got . . .these are the good old days.
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Post by kbareit on Oct 20, 2019 18:41:08 GMT -5
I imagine that distribution isn’t stopping here in the states, just the production facility will be gone, consolidating production (it says in the release) and/or cheaper employees elsewhere. The owner of the B&M that our pipe club meets at told us that him and Max Stokkebye were going to plan a blending seminar in November with specials and swag.... wonder if that will happen now, Max is employed by STG. I was talking with Max at the Richmond show and he said he might be taking another position in the company. I thought it funny at the time because he seems to really enjoy what he is doing now but it makes sense now. |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 20, 2019 18:51:29 GMT -5
I imagine that distribution isn’t stopping here in the states, just the production facility will be gone, consolidating production (it says in the release) and/or cheaper employees elsewhere. The owner of the B&M that our pipe club meets at told us that him and Max Stokkebye were going to plan a blending seminar in November with specials and swag.... wonder if that will happen now, Max is employed by STG. I was talking with Max at the Richmond show and he said he might be taking another position in the company. I thought it funny at the time because he seems to really enjoy what he is doing now but it makes sense now. The article stated: I did a word search on the term... I imagine that the Stokkebye name carries a lot more clout staying on than most employees. |
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Post by monbla256 on Oct 20, 2019 21:24:40 GMT -5
Wait and see, production costs will go up in Denmark and STG will move everything to China ! 
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Post by trailboss on Oct 20, 2019 21:28:01 GMT -5
Wait and see, production costs will go up in Denmark and STG will move everything to China ! I can see it now...Prestone antifreeze as a humectant. |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 20, 2019 23:26:39 GMT -5
STG started a forum over at "This Pipe Life" forum a year or two ago, I posed the question.... forum.thispipelife.com/discussion/2132/stg-pulls-out-of-the-usa#latestPappyjoe asked the hard question that resulted in a response: Glad to hear that the product will be made in Denmark instead of a third world country. And we can thank the FDA and the A$$holes that rammed it down our throats.....but in the words of some that support the political class..."I have my cellar, screw everyone else".  Them people should dump their cellars in the dump. |
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Post by chasingembers on Oct 21, 2019 4:40:26 GMT -5
Will this affect Peter Stokkebye and Captain Black availability?
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Post by rmb on Oct 21, 2019 7:46:13 GMT -5
Will this affect Peter Stokkebye and Captain Black availability? According to STG it won’t. Time will tell though. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2019 2:11:24 GMT -5
Appreciate what we've got . . .these are the good old days. I agree. Glad to hear that the product will be made in Denmark instead of a third world country. Actually, the article said that production would be moved to Denmark and the Dominican Republic. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2019 2:31:18 GMT -5
Glad to hear that the product will be made in Denmark instead of a third world country. Actually, the article said that production would be moved to Denmark and the Dominican Republic. Although maybe it's just the Lane cigar production that will move to the DR. That would make sense. And we can thank the FDA and the A$$holes that rammed it down our throats.....but in the words of some that support the political class..."I have my cellar, screw everyone else". Yep, those people are hard to take (a nice way to put it). |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 22, 2019 9:39:15 GMT -5
Thispipelife is a forum ran by STG, I had mentioned there that from what I understood, STG would no longer have a USA presence. Leonard Wortzel who is a big dog over there replied: “ trailboss you are correct from a manufacturing standpoint. However, we will still have a North American HQ (Richmond). All kinds of organizational changes of the past couple of years. In the US, STG own Lane, Cigars International and General Cigar. All of Lane personnel (except for the factory) have been reporting up through the former head of General Cigar since April of 2018.” |
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