Murray, Sons and Company - Belfast - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

"A building once familiar to many generations of railway passengers arriving at Gt Victoria Street station. The offices, dating from 1900, were built to a design by Watt and Tulloch. There was a much later factory extension which backed onto the railway and station. The business closed in 2005. The extension was demolished and the offices extensively renovated and restored. The office building is of considerable architectural significance. Now called “Murray’s Exchange”."

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"Murray, Sons and Company Ltd began trading in Belfast in 1810, and became a limited company in 1884. By 1921, it shared most of the Belfast manufacture of tobacco, cigarettes and snuff with Gallaher Limited, who had moved to Belfast in 1867. Dunlop McCosh Cunningham took over the running of the works in the mid-1920s from his uncle. The firm produced Erinmore and Yachtsman Navy Cut brands, though the cigarettes were not the superior quality that the pipe tobacco proved to be. The firm produced high quality popular pipe tobacco. For a time in the 1970s the Managing Director was Belfast man Mr Gleghorne and his personal assistant was Mrs Elizabeth Iris McDowell (née Hillock)

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In 1953, Murray, Sons and Company Ltd was acquired from Dunlop McCosh Cunningham by London-based Carreras Tobacco, which following the sale of shares in 1958 by the Baron family, merged with Rothman's of Pall Mall to become Carreras Rothmans Limited. Carreras Rothmans became known as Rothmans International in 1972.

In June 1999, Rothmans International was acquired by British American Tobacco."

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