1814 | Martin Burrus founds BURRUS |
1821 | Christian Schönholzer founds SCHÖNHOLZER Samuel Schürch founds SCHÜRCH |
1828 | Foundation of LA CIVETTE François-Joseph Burrus changes the name of BURRUS to F.J. BURRUS |
1832 | Foundation of VAUTIER FRÈRES |
1847 | Foundation of BRISSAGO |
1848 | Foundation of LACAZE |
1850 | Introduction of new Swiss Franc equal to 1 French Franc |
1852 | Louis Ormond founds ORMOND by buying LACAZE |
1880 | Foundation of C. GERBER & CIE |
1882 | VAUTIER FRÈRES is the first Swiss company starting cigarette production |
1886 | F.J. BURRUS starts cigarette production |
1888 | Jean Villiger founds VILLIGER |
1903 | Louis Rinsoz founds RINSOZ German METROPOLE opens a branch at Biel |
1913 | ED. LAURENS opens a branch at Geneve |
1920 | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO opens a branch at Geneve which becomes later
it's international headquarter Foundation of TURMAC |
192? | NESTOR GIANACLIS opens a branch at Geneve |
1924 | RINSOZ aquires the rights from French tobacco monopoly to produce and sell their brands at Switzerland |
1925 | Foundation of FABRIQUES DE TABAC RÉUNIES by merger of several companies including SCHÖNHOLZER and SCHÜRCH |
1926 | ÖSTERREICHISCHE TABAK-REGIE opens a branch at Dübendorf F.J. BURRUS becomes owner of TURMAC |
1928 | C. GERBER & CIE moves from Höngg to Arlesheim and acquires MADEHN |
1930 | Foundation of RINSOZ & ORMOND by merger of RINSOZ and ORMOND |
1931 | Richard Greiling founds MAHALLA at Zürich RINSOZ & ORMOND aquires the rights from Turkish tobacco monopoly to produce and sell their brands at Switzerland |
1933 | ED. LAURENS produces the first Swiss filter cigarette called FILTRA |
1939 | FABRIQUES DE TABAC RÉUNIES acquires A. BATSCHARI and J. ATHANASIOU |
1941 | Swiss branch of ÖSTERREICHISCHE TABAK-REGIE gets renamed to CIGARETTENFABRIK MEMPHIS |
1957 | CIGARETTENFABRIK MEMPHIS (which is at that time already owned by F.J. BURRUS) starts to produce cigarettes like MARLBORO and MURATTI for PHILIP MORRIS |
1959 | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO becomes owner of VAUTIER FRÈRES |
1963 | PHILIP MORRIS acquires FABRIQUES DE TABACS RÉUNIES -
it's first European branch Closure of CIGARETTENFABRIK MEMPHIS which belongs at this time to FABRIQUES DE TABACS RÉUNIES |
1967 | VAUTIER FRÈRES gets integrated into BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO |
1968 | ED. LAURENS acquires MAHALLA |
1969 | Foundation of IVAN SCHOLER (MANUFACTURE DE CIGARETTES DE LUXE) |
1971 | TURMAC gets integrated into F.J. BURRUS |
1978 | October, 18th - Introduction of health warnings at side |
1983 | Closure of WIDMER & CIE |
1984 | F.J. BURRUS becomes owner of swiss branch of ED. LAURENS |
1993 | F.J. BURRUS acquires RINSOZ & ORMOND |
1995 | ED. LAURENS gets integrated into F.J. BURRUS |
1996 | F.J. BURRUS acquires SULLANA ROTHMANS merges with F.J. BURRUS to build ROTHMANS-FJB Introduction of health warnings at front |
1999 | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO merges with ROTHMANS JAPAN TOBACCO founds at Geneve it's international headquarter called JT INTERNATIONAL after the acquisition of RJR NABISCO |
2002 | PHILIP MORRIS moves it's international headquarter from the USA to
Switzerland R.J. REYNOLDS and GALLAHER found a joint-venture called REYNOLDS-GALLAHER INTERNATIONAL |
2006 | Introduction of big health warnings at front |
2009 | Introduction of big pictured warnings at back |
2013 | Closure of IVAN SCHOLER (MANUFACTURE DE CIGARETTES DE LUXE) |