Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas
The Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas, SA ( General Tobacco Company of the Philippines , abbreviated as CdF ), also known as Compañía Española de Tabacos de Filipinas , is the first private tobacco company in the Philippines. It was founded by Antonio López y López in Barcelona in 1881, the company headquarters are in Manila . In Spain the company is known as "Tabacos de Filipinas" and in the Philippines as "La Tabacalera".
Although the company now specializes in the tobacco trade, it used to be active in other areas as well. Among other things, she had a shipping line and founded companies for the cultivation, purchase, production and sale of Filipino tobacco and tobacco products.
The company shrank on a large scale between 1950 and 2000. During this time, all other activities except for the tobacco trade were sold. In 2007, the merger with the Dutch tobacco trading company Lippoel Leaf created the CdF International Group, and in 2011 CdF merged with the American tobacco trading company Hail & Cotton, with Tabacos de Filipinas continuing to exist as a Filipino subsidiary.
activities
- Sourcing, processing and selling tobacco, both as a finished product and as a raw material
- Shipping company for importing, processing and trading goods
- From 1892 she also ran a large forestry
- From 1893 the trade in sugar and alcohol was added
- Trade in copra (dried coconut kernels), from which a fat was obtained, which was used in the production of soap
- Trade in Abacà - also called Manila or banana hemp (looks similar to the banana) was added. A very elastic fiber was obtained from this, which became more resistant than hemp after moistening with salt water
- Another product was the " Maguey " (agave) - used practically the same as the "Abacà"
In addition, there were also other activities:
- A power grid for the city of Manila or the tram line in the same city
Markets
The company operated in the following markets:
- On the Spanish Peninsula
- In Europe: trade with Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal
- The Philippine market, Asia and Oceania
further reading
- Emili Giralt i Raventós, La Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas 1881–1981. Barcelona. 1981.
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- ESTUDIO ECONÓMICO Y CONTABLE DE LA COMPAÑÍA GENERAL DE TABACOS DE FILIPINAS: 1881-1922
- El Pais - Una historia colonial en La Rambla; La vieja sede de Tabacos de Filipinas se transforma en hotel con el evocador nombre de 1898 The former Tabacos de Filipinas company headquarters became a hotel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alex Witula: Le Più Belle Azioni D'Epoca, p. 291; ISBN 978-88-95848-10-5
- ↑ Company overview of the Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas, SA in English . Bloomberg LP . Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ↑ El ayuntamiento barcelonés ofreció anoche una cena al señor Macapagal ya su esposa (Spanish) . In: ABC , July 5, 1962, p. 35.
- ↑ Tabacos de Filipinas
- ^ Sison, Norman: Tabacalera: 130 years of cigars and Philippine history . In: The Philippine Star , PhilStar Daily, Inc., December 5, 2011. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ↑ Vida Marítima - Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas
- ^ Hail & Cotton History . Hail & Cotton, International Group. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ Tabacos de Filipinas SA . Hail & Cotton, International Group. Archived from the original on January 22, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
