Von Eicken turns 250
Joh. Wilh. von Eicken celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2020.
In 1770, Johann Wilhelm von Eicken founded a trading company in Germany for colonial goods. He quickly established close connections with the large trading centers in Europe. The company’s commercial activities centered on tobacco, which after a few decades led to the first tobacco factory.
Throughout the years, the company defied wars, revolutions, inflation and increasing legal restrictions. More than once the fate of the company hung in the balance, but with a combination of farsightedness, courage and luck, Von Eicken grew into a globally operating tobacco company.
Today, cigarettes, cigars, fine cut and pipe tobacco are produced in Luebeck and Dingelstaedt. Both facilities are certified in accordance with IFS Food Standard 6.1.
Von Eicken is one of the last independent German family operations manufacturing cigarettes from raw tobacco through to the finished product.
Current CEO Marc von Eicken is the eighth generation Von Eicken at the helm of the operation, which employs nearly 500 people. The company sells its brands in more than 100 countries, through its branches in France, the U.S., the United Arab Emirates and Singapore, and through long‐standing distribution partners around the world.