Carroll's

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P.J. Carroll & Company Ltd.
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Tobacco
Founded1824;200 years ago (1824) in Dundalk
FounderPatrick James Carroll
Headquarters,
Ireland
Products Cigarettes
Parent British American Tobacco
Website pjcarroll.ie

P. J. Carroll & Company Limited, often called Carroll's, is an Irish manufacturing company of tobacco. Having been established in 1824, P.J. Carroll is the oldest tobacco manufacturer in the country, and currently a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. [1]

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Its cigarette brands were among the best selling in Ireland in the twentieth century. Its factory was for decades the largest employer in Dundalk.

History

Patrick James Carroll (b. 1803) completed his apprenticeship as a tobacconist in 1824 and opened a shop in Dundalk, later also manufacturing cigars. [2] He moved to Liverpool in England in the 1850s. [2] His son Vincent Stannus Carroll expanded the firm in the later 19th century. [2] His son James Marmion Carroll moved to a house outside Dundalk. [2] A second factory was opened, in Liverpool, in 1923. [2] The company went public in 1934. [2]

A purpose-built factory opened in 1970. Designed by Ronnie Tallon of Michael Scott and Partners, it was described by the journalist Frank McDonald as "way ahead of anything else in Ireland at the time". [3] In 1974, to mark the 150th anniversary of its founding, P.J. Carroll published an illustrated booklet by the writer James Plunkett: P. J. Carroll & Co. Ltd, Dublin & Dundalk - A Retrospect, outlining the development of the company in its historical context.

Carroll's was acquired by Rothmans in 1990; Rothmans was acquired by British American Tobacco Plc in 1998. The company's share of the Irish tobacco market is around 17%. In 2002, the Dundalk site was sold for €16.4m [4] to the Department of Education and repurposed for the campus of Dundalk Institute of Technology. [2] [3] Carroll's rented back a small section for its remaining factory operations, until finally ceasing its Dundalk operations in 2008. Carrolls remains an Irish company with deep connections to hundreds of retirees and nearly 40 staff based in their Dublin offices.[ citation needed ]

In 2013, [5] some lawmakers suggested PJ Carroll should be prohibited from speaking with lawmakers on the basis of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). PJ Carroll comes under the definition of [6] Tobacco Industry as set out by the FCTC, but the FCTC does not prohibit engagement between tobacco companies and public representatives, but puts in place strict rules relating to transparency.

Brands

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Carrolls Number 1 cigarettes
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Major cigarettes

Of international brands, Carroll's manufactured Rothmans and Dunhill and distributed Winfield, and Lucky Strike [ citation needed ]

Sponsorship

Carroll's was a major sponsor of sport in Ireland until restrictions were imposed on tobacco advertising. The company had naming rights over the GAA All Stars Awards (1971–78); [7] and Irish showjumping horses of the 1970s and 80s, such as "Carroll's Boomerang". [8]

In golf, Carroll's was the sponsor of several professional tournaments including the Carroll's International (1963 to 1974), the Carroll's Number 1 Tournament (1965 to 1968), the Carroll's Irish Match Play Championship (1969 to 1982), [9] and most notably the revived Irish Open from 1975 to 1993.[ citation needed ]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Bellew, Seamus (26 November 2008). "Carroll's Factory: The Carroll and Burns associations". Dundalk Democrat. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  3. 1 2 McDonald, Frank (22 February 2011). "Dundalk relights fire in former factory". The Irish Times . Archived from the original on 24 February 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Carroll's cigarettes – a burnt out case?". Business and Finance. Ireland. 6 May 2004. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011.
  5. O'Halloran, Marie; O'Regan, Michael (19 December 2013). "Bill to outlaw tobacco lobbying defeated in Seanad". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
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  7. Mc Donnell, Fidelma (23 July 2004). "Riches of Clare: Rewarding the Cream of the Crop". Clare Champion. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  8. Parkes, Louise (5 January 2005). "Show jumping mourns Paul Darragh". Irish Independent. Retrieved 20 February 2010. by the mid-1970s [Paul Darragh] had joined Eddie Macken to compete under the banner of the tobacco company PJ Carroll in a sponsorship deal that ran for 12 long and very successful years.
  9. "P. J. Carrolls sponsor £2,000 match-play" . Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal. Leinster, Republic of Ireland. 21 February 1969. p. 3. Retrieved 2 June 2020 via British Newspaper Archive.