Product type | Cigars |
---|---|
Owner | Altadis |
Country | United States |
Introduced | 1912 |
Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1 |
Muriel Cigars is a brand of machine-rolled cigars, most recently owned by Altadis, a subsidiary of Imperial Brands.
The Muriel Cigars brand was established in 1912 by Lorillard Tobacco Company [1] in Jersey City, New Jersey. [2] Muriel Cigars was acquired by Consolidated Cigar Holdings, Inc. in 1956, [3] which in turn merged with Havatampa in 2000 to form Altadis USA. [4]
The first Muriel cover girl, long considered a mystery, was an adult imagining of a child, Muriel Berry, granddaughter of Dr. Carl Moehle, owner of the lithographic firm that produced the original label. [1] The brand chose a new model in the 1970s in an attempt to maintain relevance in changing times. [5]
Muriel's popularity peaked in the 1950s, [6] but Consolidated continued to market the brand extensively in America throughout the 1960s and 1970s, [2] and the brand did $40m in annual sales by 1973, [5] spending as much as $2.5m per year on marketing in the 1970s. [7] Muriel Cigars ran television advertisements in the first Super Bowl in 1966. [8] Actress Edie Adams notably worked as a pitch-lady for Muriel Cigars, appearing in multiple commercials throughout the 1960s. [9]
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