{{Short description|Former Macedonian cigarette brand}} {{infobox brand | name= Partner | logo= | image= Partner Filter King Size (Full flavour).jpg | caption= An old Macedonian pack of Partner cigarettes. | type= Cigarette | currentowner= Makedonija Tabak | producedby= Makedonija Tabak | origin= Macedonia | introduced= | discontinued= | related= | markets= See ''Markets'' | previousowners= | trademarkregistrations= | ambassadors=Amar lagbe | tagline= | website= | footnotes = Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1 }}
'''Partner''' was a Macedonian brand of cigarettes that was owned and manufactured by ''Makedonija Tabak''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegram.hr/zivot/mali-nostalgican-pregled-nekih-od-najpopularnijih-cigareta-iz-bivse-jugoslavije/|title=Mali (nostalgičan) pregled nekih od najpoznatijih cigareta u Jugoslaviji|date=15 December 2015|website=Telegram.hr|accessdate=4 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=329670941|title=Makedonija Tabak AD: Private Company Information - Bloomberg|website=Bloomberg.com|accessdate=4 June 2018}}</ref>
==History== The brand was founded after the end of World War II and was manufactured by the company "Makedonija Tabak", in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. It was one of the few Yugoslavian brands sold outside of Yugoslavia, in the Soviet Union, Poland, Finland and Japan.<ref name="cigarettespedia.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.cigarettespedia.com/index.php/BrandPartner|title=BrandPartner - Cigarettes Pedia|website=Cigarettespedia.com|accessdate=4 June 2018}}</ref> While Partner wasn't as known or popular as Drina, Jadran or Lovćen, it still sold well within socialist Macedonia and, to a lesser extent, socialist Serbia. However, during the breakup of Yugoslavia, the company suffered and eventually the brand ceased to exist, several years after Macedonia became its own country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1058043|title=Kako smo popušili domaće cigarete|website=Vreme.com|date=14 June 2012 |accessdate=4 June 2018}}</ref> Due to the fact that this brand looked and sounded foreign compared to similar brands sold in Yugoslavia, it was always seen as the "odd" and "foreign" brand on the market.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bktvnews.com/magazin/zanimljivosti/najgore-cigare-koje-su-bile-hit-u-jugi-na-njihov-pomen-pusaci-se-i-danas-zakaslju/36110|title=Samo ako imate preko 40 godina SETIĆETE SE OVIH CIGARETA, ali sigurno na loš način (FOTO) - BKTVNews|date=26 June 2016|website=Bktvnews.com|accessdate=4 June 2018|archive-date=18 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618180359/http://www.bktvnews.com/magazin/zanimljivosti/najgore-cigare-koje-su-bile-hit-u-jugi-na-njihov-pomen-pusaci-se-i-danas-zakaslju/36110|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Packaging== The pack has a white-blue pattern, with two horses holding a coat of arms with two flower-like symbols. Underneath, the words ''"Partner Filter"'' is written in white, surrounded with a red banner. Above and underneath it, the words "king size" and "20 cigarettes" are written in white letters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zigsam.at/C_Macedonia.htm|title=Macedonia|website=Zigsam.at|accessdate=4 June 2018}}</ref>
==Markets== Partner was mainly sold in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, but also throughout Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (and after the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was sold for several years in Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia), as well as in Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia.<ref name="cigarettespedia.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zigsam.at/B_Partner.htm|title=Partner|website=Zigsam.at|accessdate=4 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cigarety.by/brand.php?n=10&l=15&w=PARTNER&p=0|title=Brands|website=Cigarety.by|accessdate=4 June 2018|archive-date=26 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126123037/http://www.cigarety.by/brand.php?n=10&l=15&p=0&w=PARTNER|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== * Tobacco smoking * Drina (cigarette) * Elita (cigarette) * Filter 57 (cigarette) * Jadran (cigarette) * Laika (cigarette) * Lovćen (cigarette) * Morava (cigarette) * Smart (cigarette) * Time (cigarette) * Sobranie * Jin Ling * LD (cigarette) * Walter Wolf (cigarette)
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Cigarette brands
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