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Swisher International Group, with executive offices located in Darien, Connecticut, and operational headquarters located in Jacksonville, Florida, is the world's largest cigar company as measured by units sold〔(Business Wire: December 9, 1998-Swisher International Group Inc. Announces Agreement to Go Private and Purchase Shares At $9.50 Per Share )〕 and is America’s largest cigar exporter, shipping to nearly 90 countries. Brands include Swisher Sweets, King Edward, and Optimo.〔(APPX Software News: April, 2007-Customer Focus: Swisher International )〕 ==History== *1861 David Swisher, a merchant out of Newark Ohio, received a small cigar business as part of a debt settlement. *1870 Hundreds of cigars are rolled by hand every day in a one room ''Manufactury'' *1888 David sells the company to his sons, Harry and John H. Swisher. The two rename the company Swisher Brothers. *1895 Swisher Brothers grows to three factories, employing over 1,000 people, and producing as many as 300,000 cigars daily. *1913 John buys out his brother Harry's half of the company and brings on his own son Carl. Jno. H. Swisher & Son is established. *1924 After an exhaustive search, Carl selects Jacksonville FL, as the new site of the headquarters. The country's first "fresh work" rolling machines turn on at the Jacksonville headquarters, mass-producing cigars that are superior in uniformity, appearance, and quality. Swisher then became the first to wrap individual cigars in cellophane, and the first to come up with a simple device for removing the cellophane by pulling the cigar band. *1927 The Jacksonville plant is so productive that the Ohio facilities are closed and consolidated into the Florida plant. *1930 During the darkest days of the depression, at a time when most companies are letting people go, Swisher hired hundreds. Swisher's hiring record earned the company Forbes magazines certificate of merit for having had "the vision, courage, and faith in America's future to make large investments in the face of depression problems." *1939 Swisher builds the nation's first industrial children's nursery on the top floor of the Jacksonville headquarters. The King Edward Nursery won nationwide acclaim, with professionally trained nurses and attendants on staff around the clock. *1940 Swisher's King Edward becomes the world's bestselling cigar. *1941 The Jacksonville plant is now the largest cigar factory in the world under one roof. *1942 Swisher expands by opening numerous other facilities in the nearby tobacco-growing areas for handling, processing, storing, and shipping the huge quantities of tobacco needed. *1958 Jno. H Swisher & Sons introduces the Swisher Sweets brand cigar. *1964 The company makes a total of four million cigars per day and ships to all fifty states and forty seven countries. *1964 Jno. H Swisher & Sons is acquired by American Maize Products, a corn processor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Directors of American Maize and Cigar Firm Agree on Merger Terms )〕 *1985 Swisher Sweets Little Cigars begin to land on store shelves. Swisher products are now sold in more than sixty countries around the world. *1986 Swisher grew through several acquisitions including the purchase of Helme Tobacco Company, manufacturers of smokeless tobacco products. *1992 Swisher changes its name from Jno. H. Swisher & Sons, to Swisher International, Inc. With Swishers quality cigars making their way around the globe to more than seventy different countries, the name seemed like a perfect fit. *1995 American Maize Products is acquired by Eridania Béghin-Say, a French company; Swisher is sold to William Ziegler III, former CEO of American Maize〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Bittersweet Harvest For American Maize )〕 *2014 Swisher International acquired Miami-based Drew Estate Tobacco Company. Drew Estate's Co-Founders are Jonathan Drew and Marvin Samel, and President Michael Cellucci – and will be a subsidiary of Swisher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Swisher International - Public Relations )〕 *2015 Swisher has announced that they will lay off 450 employees in their Jacksonville, FL office and will outsource them to the Dominican Republic instead of just reducing personnel in the U.S. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swisher International Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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