A French resident in Alexandria, Edouard Laurens has been manufacturing cigarettes there for the French market since at least 1888 under a Belgian-registered company: Le Khédive. In 1912, this company was partially sold to the English firm Ed. Laurens Ltd.

Cigarettes manufactured at the Liège tobacco factory (Belgium)

La première manufacture de tabac Matossian a été créée au Caire en 1885.

Cigarettes manufactured by an Egyptian company.

Ed. Laurens Xanthia Cigarettes

Cigarettes produced by the Compañia General de Tabacos. The name of this cigarette was given in honor of the general and president of Argentina Bartolomé Mitre (1821 - 1906).