E. Nobel

The company was founded when Christian Kastrup opened a tobacco factory at Vestergade 11 (formerly No.

[1] E. F. Nobel's new venture in Copenhagen grew rapidly and he soon expanded it with a large, new cigar factory at Smallegade in Frederiksberg (now Porcelænshaven) and a chewing tobacco factory at Prinsessegade 60 (formerly 50) in Christianshavn.

Bruun Sr. died shortly thereafter and the firm was the following year split in two when Nobel's son kept the cigar and smoking tobacco activities while Braun's two sons continued the chewing tobacco activities under the name Brødr.

H. Baagøe died in 1900 and the company was then continued by Emil Nobel alone until his death in 1906.

Augustinus Fabrikker and Horwitz & Kattentid under the name De Danske Cigar- & Tobaksfabrikker in 1919.

The cigar factory in Nykøbing Falster was taken over by Scandinavian Tobacco Group in 1991.

Danish businessman and politician Emilius Ferdinand Nobel (1810-1892).
Emilius Ferdinand Nobel by Harald Frederik Jensen
E. Nobel : Its building at Vestergade 11 is seen in the middle.
Vestergade 11
Vestergade 11