Chocolat Tobler
Chocolat Tobler AG was a Swiss chocolate manufacturer in Bern . In 1868, Jean Tobler, born in 1830 as Johann Jakob Tobler in Lutzenberg in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden , opened his first confectionery shop in Bern. In 1899, he and his sons founded the Fabrique de Chocolat Berne, Tobler & Cie., In 1912 it became the Chocolat Tobler AG stock corporation .
In 1908 Theodor Tobler and his cousin Emil Baumann developed the Toblerone , the company's most successful and best-known product and the only one that is still in production today.
In 1970 the company merged with Chocolat Suchard SA to form Interfood . In 1982 Klaus J. Jacobs acquired Interfood and formed it with his coffee group into Jacobs Suchard SA. In 1990 he sold this to the tobacco company Philip Morris , which had recently taken over Kraft Foods ; In 2007, Philip Morris split off the food business.
In 1985 the factory in the Länggass district of Bern was shut down and production relocated to Bern-Brünnen . The former factory building was rebuilt and has housed parts of the University of Bern , called Unitobler , since 1993 .
literature
- Christian Lüthi : Chocolat Tobler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Chocolat Tobler. On the history of chocolate and a factory in Bern . Publication accompanying the exhibition “Chocolat Tobler - A Triangle Story. From 1899 to today »in the Kornhaus Bern, May 12th to July 1st. In: Yvonne Leimgruber, Albert Pfiffner, Annerose Menninger (ed.): Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde . Vol 63, no. 1 . Bernisches Historisches Museum, 2001, ISSN 0005-9420 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-247038 .
Web links
- Sealing stamps from Tobler in the holdings of the collection for planned languages of the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aktiensammler 02/06, p. 20, ISSN 1611-8006
- ↑ Mondelēz: short biographies on some of our founders (Theodor Tobler)