House of Prince A/S, is a

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manufacturer. As Denmark's only cigarette manufacturer,The Group
on company website (archived, 24 Nov 2005) it was an independent

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of Scandinavian Tobacco Company until its sale to

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in 2008. In 2005, House of Prince posted sales of DKK 12.66 billion ($2.15 billion).

History

The history of House of Prince dates to 1990 during reconstruction of ''Scandinavian Tobacco Company'', and now houses all cigarette tobacco manufacturing of that company. The factory was built in 1951 and is located in Søborg, Denmark and produced approximately 60 million cigarettes daily. The ''Prince'' cigarette was launched in 1957. The company produces about 12 million cigarettes by year.House of Prince A/S on Reference for Business The factory closed in 2011.British American Tobacco The company supplies 95% of the Danish market and 37% of the Scandinavian market. The brand

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has a

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of 34% of the Danish market and 42% of the

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market.

Subsidiary companies

* House of Prince AB (Sweden) * Scandinavian Tobacco S.A. (Poland) * Scandinavian Tobacco Eesti AS (Estonia) * UAB House of Prince Lithuania (Lithuania) * Scandinavian Tobacco S.R.O. (Czech) * Scandinavian Tobacco Company Hellas S.A. (Greece) * Scandinavien Tobacco Hungary kft. (Hungary)

Cigarette brands by House of Prince

* Ava * Bravo * Caines * Cecil * Cristal * Christian of Denmark * Corner - Now known as Pall Mall * Danton * Dark * Delight * Grom * Grot * King's * LA - Los Angeles * Look * Meskie * Mistral * Nevada * Newmore * North State *

* Queen's * Reven * Rockets * Rocky Mountains * Savoy * Scotsman * Slim Agenda * Slim Camelia * Viking * Walet * Wall Street

References

External links

Official site
(archived, 7 Feb 2006) {{Authority control Tobacco companies of Denmark Danish companies established in 1990 British American Tobacco