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According to Balfour in: "Alfred Dunhill One Hundred Years And More", initially the Tobaccos were obtained from George Dobie & Sons, a manufacturer of blends located in Paisley, west of the Midland Valley in Scotland and also of some cooperatives producing Tobacco<ref name=balfour10>Balfour, Michael. (1992). Alfred Dunhill, One Hundred Years and More (p.48). London, Weidenfield and Nicolson.</ref>). Creating blends is more than just mixing sheets in different proportions. There are techniques to develop a mixture, for example, cooking, roasting, pressing, mattering, etc. and can hardly be made at the shop counter. After five years, in 1912, his youngest brother, Herbert Edward Dunhill (1884-1950), joins the business. He was an insightful merchant and is soon ahead of the company's financial issues (a function he exercises until his death in 1950), allowing Alfred to give his creativity to the development of new products. | According to Balfour in: "Alfred Dunhill One Hundred Years And More", initially the Tobaccos were obtained from George Dobie & Sons, a manufacturer of blends located in Paisley, west of the Midland Valley in Scotland and also of some cooperatives producing Tobacco<ref name=balfour10>Balfour, Michael. (1992). Alfred Dunhill, One Hundred Years and More (p.48). London, Weidenfield and Nicolson.</ref>). Creating blends is more than just mixing sheets in different proportions. There are techniques to develop a mixture, for example, cooking, roasting, pressing, mattering, etc. and can hardly be made at the shop counter. After five years, in 1912, his youngest brother, Herbert Edward Dunhill (1884-1950), joins the business<ref name=balfour11>Balfour, Michael. (1992). Alfred Dunhill, One Hundred Years and More (p.47). London, Weidenfield and Nicolson.</ref>). He was an insightful merchant and is soon ahead of the company's financial issues (a function he exercises until his death in 1950<ref name=red>The Dunhill Medical Trust. Our History. Retrieved 2 March 2020 (CST) from [https://dunhillmedical.org.uk/about/our-history/ Dunhill Medical Trust]</ref>), allowing Alfred to give his creativity to the development of new products. | ||
Alfred was restless and always wanted to hone his products, taking him (in 1912) to leave the blends tailored in the background. This was when Alfred presented his own mixtures "in-house", they were: the "Royal Yacht" (Virginia), "Cuba" (Cigar Leaf) and "Durbar" (Latakia, Oriental/Turkish, Virginia). Products acclaimed up to the present day. | Alfred was restless and always wanted to hone his products, taking him (in 1912) to leave the blends tailored in the background. This was when Alfred presented his own mixtures "in-house", they were: the "Royal Yacht" (Virginia), "Cuba" (Cigar Leaf) and "Durbar" (Latakia, Oriental/Turkish, Virginia). Products acclaimed up to the present day. | ||