Rinsoz & Ormond
| Rinsoz & Ormond Tabac SA (Rinsoz & Ormond Holding SA) |
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|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1852 |
| resolution | 2004 |
| Seat | Vevey , Switzerland |
| Branch | Tobacco industry |
The Rinsoz & Ormond Tabac SA was a Swiss cigars - and tobacco manufacturers based in Vevey .
history
The company was founded in 1852 by Louis Ormond as Manufacture de cigares Ormond & Cie . At that time he took over a tobacco factory in Vevey from Bernard Lacaze and made cigars from Kentucky tobacco, which were also exported to England and Australia under the name Veveysans . The company is also considered to be the inventor of the pillar . Ormond also had the tobacco monopoly in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . In 1903, another Swiss entrepreneur, Louis Rinsoz, entered cigar production. Under the Meccarillos brand , he sold a type of cigar that is still internationally known today.
In 1930 the two companies merged to form Rinsoz & Ormond . Over the decades this has developed into one of the most renowned Swiss producers and distributors of cigars. At the same time, the business activities were expanded to other areas through various acquisitions, as a result of which the company developed into a diversified group with activities in the distribution of gastronomic products for the hotel and catering industry.
Splitting up
In 1990 Rinsoz & Ormond Holding SA decided to realign itself and to withdraw completely from the tobacco business, which at that time made up 60 percent. As part of the strategic realignment of the food industry which was Rinsoz & Ormond Holding SA in Orior Holding SA renamed. This subsequently developed into a major food company.
The tobacco business combined in Rinsoz & Ormond Tabac SA was taken over by the then French tobacco monopoly SEITA. Rinsoz & Ormond Tabac SA later became the property of the Swiss cigar manufacturer Burger Söhne and was finally dissolved by resolution of the Extraordinary General Meeting on December 17, 2003. The brands Meccarillos, Ormond and Fivaz are produced and sold today by Burger Söhne AG.
Web links
- History of Rinsoz & Ormond on the Orior AG website
- Gilbert Marion: Ormond, Louis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brunnschweiler: The stump. In: NZZ Folio . 3/1999.
- ^ Tobacco International , December 15, 1990.
- ↑ Entry by Rinsoz & Ormond Tabac SA ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. in the commercial register of the canton of Vaud.
