Tobaccoland automatic machine company

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The tobaccoland machines mbH & Co. KG is a German tobacco - trading company . The company was created in 1998 by splitting off the machine division of tobaccoland Großhandelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG , before it was merged with Lekkerland GmbH & Co. KG on January 1, 1999 . The company headquarters are in Mönchengladbach .

Regional headquarters

There are four regional centers (RZ) with crossdocks (CD) throughout Germany

A total of around 860 people are employed. tobaccoland operates around 105,000 cigarette machines , from which more than 6,500 million cigarettes were sold in 2005. Another business area tobaccoland sells cell phone credit and ringtones for cell phone users from so-called e-loading machines, and since 2005 also prepaid credit for other applications such as secure online payments. The annual turnover is over € 1,000 million.

The general partner is tobaccoland Automaten-Beteiligungs-GmbH, Vienna. The limited partners are

  • Habet Handels-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG ( Gallaher Group )
  • CGL Handel GmbH & Co. and the
  • TL Süd Warenvertrieb GmbH & Co. KG.

Sale of condoms in the Reichstag building

In 2011 the company offered cigarettes as well as condoms in a machine in the Reichstag building . However, Parliament President Norbert Lammert had the condoms removed a few days later. A spokeswoman for Lammerts justified this with alleged behavior by Tobaccoland in breach of contract. This was only authorized to stock the machines exclusively with tobacco products.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lammert prevents condom sales in the Bundestag Spiegel-Online from May 10, 2011