[3] After receiving a commercial education in Geneva and Venice, Tobler entered his father's business in 1894.
[5] In 1908, Tobler and his cousin Emil Baumann, the company's production manager, created the Toblerone chocolate bar,[3] naming the product as a portmanteau combining Tobler's surname and torrone, the Italian word for honey and almond nougat.
[6] The brand was trademarked the same year at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, becoming the first patented milk chocolate made with almonds and honey.
[6] Tobler left the company in 1933 and bought the Klameth confectionery firm in Bern in 1934.
[3] In 1937, he founded the enterprise Typon AG, in Burgdorf, which produced films for the graphic industry.