Does British American Tobacco actually do the manufacturing for Fiedler & Lundgren's Mocca line?
I was watching a video from BAT's website showing snus production, and couldn't help but notice that the tins they were filling looked remarkably like tins of Mocca mint snus. The video is online at:
http://www.bat.com/group/sites/uk__3...nt&SKN=1&TMP=1
The first thing I noticed upon opening a tin of Mocca pomegranate was that the mini portions were perfect in terms of presentation. Plump, tight little portions instead of the off-center-square-in-a-sack I get from Swedish Match minis, or the random-wad-of-snus-in-a-bag feel of Skruf/Knox minis. The only other time I've seen mini portions that uniform were in Lucky Strike Mini.. which is what got me headed to the BAT website.
So if BAT makes Mocca, do they also make the rest of F&L's line (i.e. Diplomat)? I tried using their Contact Us page on flsnus.se to ask, but couldn't get it to submit the comment.
It does raise the question, though, of exactly which snus makers are really making snus, and how many are simply paying other companies to produce it. This is very common in the US with bourbon whiskey products.. a handful of distilleries actually produce the whiskey for dozens and dozens of different labels.
Of course, it may also just be another purple product of BAT's, or may be a case where BAT owns the portion-filling machines and F&L is just paying them to stuff & package the product.
- Jeff
I was watching a video from BAT's website showing snus production, and couldn't help but notice that the tins they were filling looked remarkably like tins of Mocca mint snus. The video is online at:
http://www.bat.com/group/sites/uk__3...nt&SKN=1&TMP=1
The first thing I noticed upon opening a tin of Mocca pomegranate was that the mini portions were perfect in terms of presentation. Plump, tight little portions instead of the off-center-square-in-a-sack I get from Swedish Match minis, or the random-wad-of-snus-in-a-bag feel of Skruf/Knox minis. The only other time I've seen mini portions that uniform were in Lucky Strike Mini.. which is what got me headed to the BAT website.
So if BAT makes Mocca, do they also make the rest of F&L's line (i.e. Diplomat)? I tried using their Contact Us page on flsnus.se to ask, but couldn't get it to submit the comment.
It does raise the question, though, of exactly which snus makers are really making snus, and how many are simply paying other companies to produce it. This is very common in the US with bourbon whiskey products.. a handful of distilleries actually produce the whiskey for dozens and dozens of different labels.
Of course, it may also just be another purple product of BAT's, or may be a case where BAT owns the portion-filling machines and F&L is just paying them to stuff & package the product.
- Jeff
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