SAIS oil and grease works
The Oel- und Fettwerke SAIS were a Swiss food manufacturer based in Horn in the canton of Thurgau , which existed from 1916 to 2001. The Sais brand for edible oil and fat still exists.
history
In 1916 a group of entrepreneurs founded the SAIS oil and grease works in Horn in Thurgau. The Italian abbreviation stood for Società anonima italo-svizzera per la produione degli olii vegetali , in German "Italian-Swiss stock corporation for the production of vegetable oils". The original purpose of the company was to import vegetable oils and fats , which were missing in Switzerland during the First World War , from Italy . Approx. 60% of the share capital was raised by the Shift Group based in Aussig (today Ústí nad Labem ) in Bohemia , the Italian Oleifici nazionali and the entrepreneur Jakob Schmidheiny . In 1917, SAIS began pressing linseed in a production facility on the shores of Lake Constance , and in 1921 they relocated the company headquarters to Zurich .
The shift group joined the Dutch margarine Unie NV in 1928 , from which the Unilever group emerged in 1929 . There were always agreements between SAIS and Astra Fett- und Oelwerke in Steffisburg, which also belongs to Unilever : In 1963, among other things, the sales departments were merged and production was rationalized, with SAIS producing the brands Dorina , Planta and, from 1987, Linea . In 1976, Astra became the property of SAIS. In 1993 the merger to Lipton-SAIS took place. The merger to Unilever Bestfoods in 2001 resulted in the closure of the plant in Horn. In 2003 the company Oleifici Sabo , based in Lugano, acquired parts of the Horner plant from Unilever and has been producing margarine there since then .
Today the Sais brand belongs to Upfield Schweiz GmbH, which it describes as “a brand of Rama ”.
Web links
- Erich Trösch: Sais. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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