History of Qingdao Cigarette Factory Company

From 65438 to 0890 (the 16th year of Guangxu), the American businessman "Old Jinlong" began to sell cigarettes to China, which was gradually accepted by our people. Since then, American and British tobacco companies have exported cigarettes to China, from which they have made huge profits.

1902, six tobacco companies, including Britain and America, formed the Far East Tobacco Trust-British American Tobacco Co., Ltd., with an organization in Hong Kong and a branch in Shanghai-Shanghai Head Office. Later, the Shanghai head office sent American tobacco technician Denver Wensti and China Xia Mingzhai to try planting tobacco leaves in Mengjiazhuang, Weihai, Shandong. However, because the area is located on the seashore, the tobacco leaves can't stand the sea breeze, and the trial planting failed.

19 13, American tobacco technicians Yi Gregory, Pi Cui, Al Gregory, Wei et al. Translators Zhang Guitang, Dong Bonian, Xia Mingzhai, China comprador Liang Xizhou and Huang Qinghai were sent, and Liu Futing was transferred from Wuhan to Weifang for the second trial planting. After success, it was planted locally and the area gradually expanded.

19 19, British Tobacco Company (later renamed British American Tobacco Co., Ltd.) set up a Qingdao office opposite Dagang Station on Shanghe Road in Qingdao to undertake the task of transporting tobacco leaves by sea and land.

1923, the office purchased five acres of land in the original site, built temporary houses, and shipped 13 cigarette making machines from Australia, recruited 300 workers and started to produce cigarettes. At that time, the daily output was about 50 boxes, and the main products were "old Dao" and "Pinhai". At the end of the same year, about 130 mu of land was leased in Mengzhuang Road, Xiawa Road and Chengkou Road in Qingdao to build a new factory.

1924, the project is completed and the Shanghe Road is relocated. Named "Qingdao Branch of Daying Tobacco Co., Ltd.", it has a tobacco department, a cigarette department and a printing department, and employs about 800 workers. The boss is an American, Savage.

193465438+February, based on the "September 18th Incident", the domestic anti-imperialist wave surged, and the boycott of foreign goods was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The national capitalist cigarette industry was established and developed accordingly, which directly affected the product sales of British American Tobacco Company. In order to ease ethnic conflicts, the Qingdao branch of British Tobacco Company Limited was renamed as "British Commercial Zhong Yi Tobacco Company Limited".

1April, 935, it was renamed as "Zhong Yi Tobacco Co., Ltd." again, which absorbed some Chinese businessmen. Due to the business determination of British businessmen, the company's production is developing day by day. From 1936 to 1938, the company reached its peak.

1941February, when the Pacific War broke out, the company was taken over by the Japanese Management Committee and renamed as "Qingdao Office of Zhong Yi Tobacco Company under Japanese Management". At that time, the cigarettes produced were military materials, and the printing department not only printed trademarks, but also printed counterfeit banknotes.

1In August, 945, after Japan announced its surrender, it resumed the name of "Qingdao Branch of Zhong Yi Tobacco Co., Ltd." and started production in February of that year. But at that time, American military cigarettes entered the market with high quality and low price, and there was no tariff, which impacted the market sales of Zhong Yi company.

1June 2, 949, Qingdao was liberated. British businessmen hold a wait-and-see attitude and have no intention of operating. They shipped the inventory data to Shanghai, Tianjin and other places for sale to maintain employees' wages and expenses. The people's government of our country once gave help to the supply of tobacco leaves, but it still failed to reverse the stop-and-go situation.

1952 65438+1October 13 The Chinese people's government accepted the application of the manager of the company, Bowman, and paid off all the debts with all the company's property, including the factory buildings, equipment and goods. The government pays for tobacco leaves, land rent, taxes, etc. ). The people's government sent takeover personnel headed by Song Dushuge and Bai Xiaoyi to the factory and renamed it "State-owned Qingdao Tobacco Company".

1953 1 changed to state-owned Qingdao cigarette factory, which was under the Ministry of Light Industry (first the Food Industry Department, then the Tobacco and Alcohol Industry Administration).

1958 1 month, the factory was placed under the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry, and in September of the same year, it was the leader of Qingdao Light Industry Bureau.

1959 was renamed as "Qingdao No.1 Cigarette Factory" and merged with No.2 Cigarette Factory in the same year 165438+ 10.

1April, 960, No.1 factory and No.2 factory were separated.

1 962165438+1October1,Qingdao No.2 cigarette factory was cancelled, and the personnel and equipment were moved to the No.1 cigarette factory, which was named "Shandong Qingdao cigarette factory" (there were 74 cigarette factories at that time).

196465438+1October, renamed as "State-owned Qingdao Cigarette Factory".

Historically, Zhong Yi Company has produced famous cigarette brands such as Red Tin Bag, Yellow Tin Bag, Old Knife, Three Batteries, Hademen and Daqianmen, all of which are best-selling products in China cigarette market. From the 1950s to the early 1980s, Qingdao Cigarette Factory has made further development, with wide product coverage and high popularity, and all economic and technical indicators rank among the top in the same industry. Qingdao cigarette factory, together with Shanghai and Tianjin cigarette factories, is called the "top, youth and sky" of cigarette industry. Since then, in the development history of Qingdao cigarette factory, after three large-scale technical transformations, the equipment, technology and technology of Qingdao cigarette factory have reached a higher development level in the national tobacco industry.

1992 confirmed the competitive concept of "forming market power with brand strategy", set up a new product development leading group and a trademark review group, and invested a lot of people, money and materials to study old brand names and develop new products. On September 1 1 that year, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the famous historical brand "Hadmen" was vigorously launched and reappeared in front of the world, and then the whirlwind of "Hadmen" swept across the country, creating the famous Hadmen myth. Later, we successively developed time-honored brands such as Hongxibao, Lao Dao, Taishan, Huangxibao, Jinhong and Yiben. It can be said that it is the successful comeback and strong development momentum of historical brands such as "Hadmen" and "Hongxibao" that opened a new era in the history of Zhong Yi's development and led Zhong Yi Company into an unprecedented glorious development period.

1994 65438+ 10. With the support of the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and the higher authorities, Qingdao Tobacco Branch and Qingdao Cigarette Factory reorganized their assets according to market rules, and established Qingdao Tobacco Group Company in conjunction with Yantai Tobacco Branch and Yantai Cigarette Factory.

1In May, 1994, Shandong Tobacco Monopoly Bureau (the company) agreed that Weihai Branch of Shandong Tobacco Company and Rizhao Branch of Shandong Tobacco Company would join Qingdao Tobacco Group.

1In April, 1995, Shandong Tobacco Company agreed that Qingdao Tobacco Group Company would accept Heze Branch (Cigarette Factory) of Shandong Tobacco Company as a member unit.

1June, 1995, according to the provisions of the Company Law, the Group implemented the reform of modern enterprise system and re-launched the time-honored brand with the standardized name of "Zhong Yi Tobacco (Group) Co., Ltd.".

1July, 996 17, the unveiling ceremony was held, and Zhong Yi Group began to enter the standardized operation track.

1998 65438+ 10, Lunan tobacco group joined Zhong Yi company, and its tobacco enterprises in Zaozhuang and Jining officially became members of Zhong Yi group, and the strength of the group was further enhanced.

On August 8th, 1998, Shandong tobacco system carried out comprehensive reform in the national tobacco system. According to the principle of specialization and intensification, Zhong Yi Group was reorganized and integrated into a cigarette industry group company, and the commercial member units of the group were designated accordingly. In recent years, with the reform and development of the tobacco industry, Zhong Yi Group has adjusted its organizational structure: in 2000, it carried out "two divisions and two adjustments" to separate its main business from diversified operations; In 2003, the group company and Qingdao cigarette factory were razed, and Yantai and Heze cigarette factories were shut down; In 2004, Tengzhou Cigarette Factory realized the "four unifications". So far, Zhong Yi Group has three cigarette factories in Qingdao, Qingzhou and Tengzhou, as well as holding and shareholding enterprises such as Qingdao Zhong Yi Investment Development Co., Ltd. and Shandong Huifeng Tobacco Reheat Co., Ltd.

Since the industrial and commercial separation of Shandong Tobacco in 2004, Zhong Yi Group has conscientiously implemented the development strategy of "big market, big enterprise and big brand" of the State Administration and Shandong China Tobacco Industry Corporation, concentrated effective resources to enlarge and strengthen key brands such as "Taishan", "Yibian" and "Hademen", and accelerated the pace of brand integration. The main brand series cigarette products represented by key brands have a broad domestic market, and some of them are sold overseas.

In 2006, with the reform of the management system of China Tobacco in Shandong Province, the orientation of Qingdao Cigarette Factory changed, and it became a factory directly under Shandong China Tobacco Industry Company, mainly engaged in cigarette manufacturing and processing. In the same year, Qingdao cigarette factory was transformed and moved from Shibei District to Laoshan District.