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{{Short description, Former British tobacco company Yenidje Tobacco Company Limited was a British tobacco company founded in 1913 by
Louis Rothman Louis Rothman (1869–1926) was the founder of Rothmans International, one of the United Kingdom's largest tobacco businesses. Career Apprenticed at the age of fourteen to an uncle's tobacco factory near Kiev in Ukraine, Louis Rothman emigrated to ...
and Markus Weinberg. The company was named for the town of Yenidje,
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(modern
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, Greece), a leading producer of high-quality
Oriental tobacco Turkish tobacco, or Oriental tobacco, is a highly aromatic, small-leafed variety of tobacco which is sun-cured. Turkish tobacco plants usually have a greater number and smaller size leaves. These differences can be attributed to climate, soil, cu ...
s for cigarettes. A dispute over business strategy lead to the dissolution of the company by the Court of Appeal's decision '' In re Yenidje Tobacco Co Ltd''
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2 Ch 426, which remains a leading authority on the dissolution of partnerships.


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Rothmans UK Holdings Limited, Company History
Tobacco companies of the United Kingdom Manufacturing companies established in 1913 Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1916 1913 establishments in England 1916 disestablishments in England British companies disestablished in 1916 British companies established in 1913