Lubinski Ltd.

Lubinski Ltd. is a family company, founded in Fermo in Italy's Marche region, known for the trade in pipes and pipe accessories. In the pipe world its name is usually associated not with a workshop but with a distribution network: alongside offering accessories under its own brand, the company has for decades held the Italian representation of numerous European pipe brands.

Founding and Family

The company's founder was Wojciech Lubinski, born in 1921 in the Polish town of Turek. According to the company's own chronology, Lubinski left his homeland during the war years, served as an officer in Polish units on the Allied side in Italy, and settled permanently in Fermo in 1958. Four years later, in 1962, he started his own wholesale business dealing in tobacco-smoking implements.

His son Mario Lubinski took over the business in 1975. Under him, the company grew from a small regional distributor into a nationally known operation, and its field of activity broadened along with the export of Italian handmade products abroad. Today's description is close to that of the founding day: wholesale trade in pipes, cigars, tobacco implements, and men's gift items. By the company's own figures, its catalogue holds more than six thousand items. With the founding of its subsidiary Cigars & Tobacco Italy in 1998, cigar and pipe tobacco distribution was moved into a separate structure.