Nakhla
Nakhla Tobacco ( Arabic نخلة, DMG Naḫla 'Palme') is an Egyptian tobacco manufacturer that produces flavored tobacco for shishas (water pipes) as well as shishas and other tobacco products.
Company history
In 1913 Saleh Mohammed El Ibiary founded a factory for the processing and production of the so-called "Mu'assal" (a strong, unflavored, black tobacco - today available under the name "Zaghloul") in his place of birth Shebin El-Kom (Egypt) . He managed the factory until 1955, after which his son Adel Ahmed Saleh El Ibiary took over the factory. This brought new types of tobacco onto the market, which nevertheless had the "typical Egyptian" taste. The first product from this new range was Muassel El-Zaghloul and quickly became popular. After the success, El Ibiary began to sell its products worldwide. Today Nakhla Tobacco is one of the most successful shisha tobacco producers in the world. According to a report by the shisha trade magazine hookahMag , 55–60 percent of the tobacco production volume is intended for export. The rest is exclusively for the Egyptian market. According to Atef El Ibiary, the company's export manager, the export share to Germany was around one percent of the production volume in 2006.
The Aladin company from Wiesbaden is the general importer of the Nakhla company in Germany and sells the entire product line as a wholesaler.
Nakhla Tobacco had a worldwide sales volume of tobacco products of 24,000 tons in 2011 and was taken over by the international tobacco, food and pharmaceutical company Japan Tobacco in March 2013 .
Products
Product groups
The Nakhla products are divided into four different product groups, A, B, C and D. There are also three new product groups called Sheherazade, Mizo & Nakhla Mix, which are not yet assigned to any of the current groups. Due to the Tobacco Ordinance , tobaccos in Germany are only available in a moisture-reduced form.
- Group A
In product group A you will find the typical Arabic shisha tobacco, which is not flavored. This is mostly only smoked in the Arab world. The varieties are called "Zaghloul", "Zaghloul Light", "Kass", "Bata" and "Khan El Khalili".
- Group B
Group B contains flavored tobaccos that taste like fruits: apple, strawberry, mint, apricot, multifruit, peach, banana and coconut.
- Group C
Group C also includes flavored tobacco. Among them is the El-Basha series from Nakhla, from which the Silverapple tobacco is particularly popular. There are also varieties such as double apple , liquorice , ascandarani apple , cherry , honeydew melon, jasmine, rose, strawberry, caramel, grape and cappuccino.
- Group D
Group D includes the following tobaccos: lemon, orange, mango, Arabic coffee, sweets, cola, vanilla, pistachio, apple, rose and tangerine.
- Sheherazade
Sheherazade is another line of tobacco from Nakhla. It costs only marginally more and is in the 200 g packaging units, except for Tropicana, whose packaging is black and contains a picture of a palm tree, in a box with a 3D chrome effect. In this group there are the following flavors: “Tropicana”, “Cardamom”, “Chocomint” (chocolate mint), “Earl Gray”, “Marguerita” and “Cinnamon”.
- Mizo
Mizo is the name of a range of products from Nakhla that was released in 2008. Available in the flavors of peach, apple, mint, white grape, guava , watermelon, cherry, raspberry, orange, lime, lychee and blueberry, Mizo is said to be a better smoking tobacco with a longer-lasting and more intense taste. The new production series has also been available in Germany since May 2008.
- Mix
Mix is the name of a range of products from Nakhla that was released in 2011. With this range of products, Nakhla did not necessarily follow the standard taste. The tobacco is available in the flavors “Brandy”, “Cosmopolitan”, “Flames” (cinnamon tequila), “Ice Apple”, “Ice Grape Mint”, “Ice Lemon Mint”, “Ice Raspberry Mint”, “Ice Watermelon Mint” ”,“ Orange Peach ”and“ Shisha on the Beach ”available. The packaging sizes are 50 g and 200 g.
ingredients
- nicotine
- Tar (only when burned)
- dried tobacco leaves
- Flavors
- Glycerin
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ "HookahMag - specialist magazine for oriental water pipes", 4/2007, p. 40 ( Memento from March 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Web link
- Nakhla Tobacco (Eng.)