verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message koninklijke theodorus niemeyer bv type subsidiary of british american tobacco industry tobacco founded 25 march 1819 headquarters groningen netherlands key people simon welford chairman products cigarettes shag cigars website official website koninklijke theodorus niemeyer bv royal theodorus niemeyer ltd. is a dutch tobacco company . the company is currently part of the multinational british american tobacco bat . contents 1 history 1.1 tobacco museum 2 products and brands 3 references 4 external links history edit factory in 2004 theodorus niemeyer 1822 1910 koninklijke theodorus niemeyer bv has been a family run business for a long period with origins from the trade in products from the dutch colonies . meindert niemeyer started the trading business on 25 march 1819 . the company sold products from the colonies among which tobacco brandname wapen van rotterdam arms of rotterdam . when son theodorus niemeyer took over the business they started producing and selling different brands both under their own name but also supplying other companies such as de bijenkorf . the company then also started selling other goods from the colonies such as tea and coffee 1 in the 20th century they company grew by acquiring other tobacco companies in the city of groningen and they also started looking to overseas markets 2 when the company celebrated its 150th birthday they received the title royal koninklijk . until 1990 the company was completely independent but in that year the company became part of rothmans international . in 1999 the rothmans merged with british american tobacco . koninklijke theodorus niemeyer bv is currently a subsidiary of bat . the factory however is still located in the city of groningen . tobacco museum edit until 1 january 2011 the city housed the niemeyer tobacco museum as part of the noordelijk scheepvaartmuseum the northern shipping museum . in 2010 it was decided to close the tobacco museum as niemeyer withdrew their funding for it as it didn t fit in bat s policies for the future of the company and without their funding it wasn t feasible to keep it open . the collection of the museum would be split up articles that the museum had received as a gift or were on loan from people would be as much as possible returned . other important pieces would become part of the own collection of the shipping museum or go to other musea . most of the then remaining items would be sold at an auction at christie s in amsterdam . the few articles that would remain are kept in the archives of the shipping museum for safe keeping . 3 4 products and brands edit koninklijke theodorus niemeyer bv produces or produced in the past a wide range of different brands . these include 5 cigares schimmelpenninck corps diplomatique westpoint javai don pablo dunhill pipe tobacco sail troost neptune voortrekker clan art enjoy dunhill royal mixture indian summer schippers captain black stanwell erinmore edgeworth danske club blanke baai rode ster flying dutchman niemeyer shag samson pall mall export javaanse jongens schwarzer krauser black cross jakobs caballero mild twin canuma gruno hoboken 50 miles american star dragon special sterling el rey mild goldstar gauloises bizon cutters choice references edit nederland s patriciaat 66 archives of groningen raise and fall of the tobacco industry in groningen regional tv station rtv noord news tabaksmuseum geeft pijp aan maarten august 2010 . watched 1 july 2012 historiek.net collection tobacco museum goes to auction 18 june 2011 . visited 1 july 2012 brandlist based on historic website of the company website version of february 2003 . retrieved 1 july 2012 via the internet archive external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to niemeyer tobacco . official website retrieved from https 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