Red & White Cigarettes

Red & White Cigarettes is a cigarette brand made by Philip Morris. The history of what is now a global tobacco company can be traced back to Philip Morris's 1847 opening of a single cigarette shop on London's Bond Street, selling tobacco and ready-made cigarettes. On Mr Morris's death, the business was taken over by his wife Margaret and his brother Leopold. In 1881 the company went public, Leopold Morris joining Joseph Grunebaum to establish Philip Morris & Company and Grunebaum, Ltd. This partnership was dissolved in 1885 and the tobacco company became known as Philip Morris & Co., Ltd. The tobacco company finally left the founding family's control in 1894, when it was taken over by William Curtis Thomson and his family. Under Thomson, the tobacco company was appointed tobacconist to King Edward VII and, in 1902, was incorporated in New York, by Gustav Eckmeyer. Ownership was split 50-50 between the British parent and American partners. Eckmeyer had been sole agent for Philip Morris in the US since 1872, importing and selling English-made Cigarettes. 1919 was a crucial year for the company. It saw the introduction of the Philip Morris coronet logo, the acquisition of the Philip Morris Company in the US by a new firm owned by American stockholders, and it's incorporation in Virginia under the name of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc. By the end of the next decade, the tobacco company had begun to manufacture cigarettes in it's factory in Richmond, Virginia; in 1924, what was to become it's most famous cigarette brand, Marlboro cigarette, was introduced. By the mid-1950s the tobacco company had become a part of American culture and soon after launched Philip Morris International to manufacture and market its products around the world.