Göteborgs Prima Fint
Known as one of the oldest snus brands still in production today, Goteborg's Prima Fint is a brand of premium snus with a long and storied history dating back over two hundred years. The brand can trace its origins to Gothenburg, Sweden, sometime in the Nineteenth Century when the entrepreneur Eric Mellgren started a factory producing different varieties of snus. Mellgren’s tasty creations soon became highly popular within Gothenburg, and with a little help from his son Johan, the senior Mellgren soon built his company into a powerhouse which produced over 150,000KG of snus in 1902. However, due to the outbreak of World War I, the Swedish government in 1915 voted to nationalize all forms of tobacco production, and as a result Mellgren’s enterprise fell under control of the newly formed government corporation known as Swedish Match (which would become privatized in later years). Using one of Mellgren’s recipes as a starting point, Prima Fint was formally launched in 1919 by Swedish Match under the name ‘Goteborg’s Prima Fint no. 930’ (no. 930 may refer to one of Mellgren’s recipes but was subsequently dropped from the name), and it soon became one of the company’s flagship brands known for its great tobacco taste. Available strictly in loose form, Prima Fint contains finely ground tobacco of the highest quality, and the brand has undergone very minor alterations since its introduction nearly one hundred years ago (even the can’s design has mostly remained the same!).
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