Erik Stokkebye Pipe Tobacco

The Stokkebye family is already at home in the tobacco world in the 4th generation:

In 1855, Erik Peter Stokkebye first entered the world of tobacco trading. His journey started with a retail store and eventually led him to manufacturing various tobacco products such as snuff, pipe tobacco and some cigars. In 1882, he officially founded the Stokkebye tobacco shop and obtained the original business license as a "tobacco maker" for an investment of 16 Danish kroner, which was approximately $3.00. This happened on September 27, 1882.

In 1897, Erik Paul Stokkebye was born in 1920. He began his tobacco career by working for his father and was eventually posted to Sumatra as a cigar tobacco manager. In the early 1920s he sailed to the Far East. After an exciting five years in Sumatra, they returned to Denmark and took over management of the factory.

1931 marks the birth year of Peter Stokkebye. He also started in the family business, but in the early 1950s he had a desire to go to America and learn more about tobacco leaves. Although he developed strong ties to the United States, business in Denmark demanded his presence, so he returned there in the mid-1950s. Years later, after developing tobacco blends for the US market, he decided to return to the US and he gained US citizenship in the 1980s.

Erik Stokkebye was born in 1957. As a child, he helped his grandfather in the factory on Saturdays. He later also spent a year in the tobacco fields and warehouses in the southern tobacco states learning the classification of tobacco leaves. In the late 1980s he was excited to rejoin the family business and worked hard to develop new tobacco blends for the Stokkebye brands.