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Swedish Match North America Inc company history timeline

1987

In 1987 it acquired Britain's second-largest match manufacturer, Wilkinson Sword.

1988

1988: Swedish Match is acquired by Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB.

1989

In 1989, Procodia was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

1990

Stora's parentage was short-lived, however, as Swedish Match was sold to Volvo in 1990.

1994

In 1994, they were joined into one group under the company name Swedish Match.

1996

Volvo eventually spun Swedish Match off to its shareholders in 1996, in a deal worth SKr 10.1 billion.

1998

With the ascension of Lennart Sunden as CEO in 1998, the company began to change the way it presented snuff.

1999

In 1999, the company sold its cigarette manufacturing to Austria Tabak but is still active as a distributor of cigarettes on the Swedish market.

Consequently in 1999 the company made one significant divestiture and a major acquisition.

Swedish Match re-launched its Swan brand in 1999, aiming it more at younger smokers.

2000

In 2000 the company made another major purchase in the North American market, paying $165 million for the chewing tobacco brands of National Tobacco Company.

2010

In 2010, Swedish Match and Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) formed a new company specialized in cigars.

2011

As of December 31, 2011, the Company had 20 directly held subsidiaries, including the wholly owned Swedish Match North Europe AB, Swedish Match Distribution AB, Swedish Match Cigars Holding AB, Svenskt Snus AB and GC Sweden AB, among others.”

2021

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