Burger sons
| Burger Sons Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1864 |
| Seat | Castle , Switzerland |
| management | Beat Burger ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Branch | Tobacco industry |
The Burger Söhne Holding AG , headquartered in Canton Aargau Castle is an internationally active Swiss Tobacco Group .
production
The family company, which was founded in 1864 and is now in its fifth generation, exclusively produces and sells cherubs , cigars and cigarillos. These include the brands Rössli, Dannemann, Al Capone, Weekend, Meccarillos, Ormond, Fivaz, Churchill, Huifkar, Blauband, Brissago, Bündner, Monopol, Pedroni, Nazionale, Toscanelli and Garibaldi. Burger Söhne is the market leader in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where the company has a market share of 60 percent.
history
The company was founded by the farmer and timber merchant Rudolf Burger , who teamed up with the cigar manufacturer Rudolf Eichenberger. After Rudolf Burger's sons Rudolf and Robert joined the company under the name Burger Sons , which is still valid today . The launch of the “Rössli” stump in 1933 gave the company its first strong growth spurt with the expansion of production to five locations by the end of the 1930s. As a result, Burger Söhne developed into the largest cigar producer in Switzerland. In 1965 the company and its subsidiaries had around 4,000 employees, 850 of them in Switzerland.
With the takeover of Dannemann GmbH in Lübbecke , Germany, in 1988 , the company rose to become the world's third largest cigar producer. In 1999, the Ticino Fabbrica Tabacchi Brissago SA was added. The brands Meccarillos, Ormond and Fivaz, among others, were also taken over from the now dissolved Rinsoz & Ormond Tabac SA . In 2010 Burger Söhne took over the company Kägi Söhne AG in Lichtensteig, which is known as the manufacturer of the Kägi fret .
Web links
- Andreas Steigmeier : Burger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Anton Wohler: Burger, Rudolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Entry of Burger Söhne Holding AG in the commercial register of the Canton of Aargau
- Dannemann's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Association of Swiss Cigar Manufacturers (VSZ) ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreas Rohner, Netweave: industrial culture .
- ↑ Cigar Clan, German-language edition No. 5/2008
- ↑ Flexify: Our Story . October 29, 2018.
