| 1805 |
Peter Abraham Bock inserts an ad in the Danish daily Kiøbenhavnske Tidender for his tobacco spinning works when he takes it over, following the death of this father. This is the official year of the founding of A/S Hermann Krüger's Eftf. - House of Oliver Twist A/S. |
| 1810 |
Bock dies of ague in November. Tobacco spinner Hans Henrich Groth is granted a trade license in July and buys the company the same year. |
| 1828 |
Ownership of the company is transferred to Nicolai Frederik Bonnesen, who has worked for Groth since he was 13. The Tobacco Spinners' Guild grants him a trade license as a tobacco spinner. |
| 1873 |
Nicolai Jacob Bonnesen carries on the business of running the factory. |
| 1877 |
Merchant and businessman Hermann Krüger takes over the Copenhagen enterprise founded by tobacco manufacturer Bock in 1805. |
| 1897 |
Johannes Christian Hansen joins the company as co-owner. |
| 1904 |
Hansen becomes the sole owner of Hermann Krüger's Tobaksfabrik. (N.F. Bonnesens Eftf.) |
| 1916 |
Hermann Krüger (N.F. Bonnesens Eftf.) is reorganized into a joint-stock company, with Erik Peter Stokkebye as the director. He already runs a tobacco factory in Odense. |
| 1927 |
Stokkebye and Krüger move into A.Jensens Damp Tobak- og Cigarfabrik, Overgade 20, founded in 1841. Manufacturing activities in Frederiksberg are phased out. |
| 1968 |
The British Gallaher Group buys out Stokkebye to gain a foothold on the Danish pipes and tobacco market. Peter Stokkebye continues as the director. The tobacco-spinning works survive. |
| 1974 |
The Gallaher Group stops the manufacture of pipe and chewing-tobacco in Denmark. The chewing-tobacco division is sold off by Stokkebye in a management buy-out to directors Børge Drest Nielsen and Erling Thobo-Carlsen who now own Hermann Krüger's Eftf. ApS, founded in 1805, and specializing in a brand of smokeless tobacco named Oliver Twist. The company's share of Denmark's chewing-tobacco production is 13%. |
| 1980 |
On March 3 the company is reorganized into a joint stock company (A/S) with a share capital of DKK 300,000. |
| 1987 |
Michael Drest Nielsen, son of the owner, is engaged by the company as a food technologist. |
| 1988 |
House of Oliver Twist A/Snow manufactures 35% of the total Danish production of chewing-tobacco. |
| 1991 |
Børge Drest Nielsen buys out Thobo-Carlsen, making Drest Nielsen the exclusive owner. |
| 1992 |
The name "House of Oliver Twist A/S" is registreted as a trade name, after which it alone is used in all communication with the surrounding world. "Hermann Krüger's Eftf. AS/" is still the registered name of the company in the Danish Register of Companies. |
| 1993 |
The production volume rounds 700 km of spun tobacco. This equals about 70 million tobacco pellets, which have helped Oliver Twist consumers to avoid smoking approximately 185 million cigarettes. |
| 1999 |
Michael Drest Nielsen joins the company's executive management. |
| 2002 |
Børge Drest Nielsen retires from the executive management, and Michael Drest Nielsen takes over the position of managing director. At the same time, Børge Drest Nielsen assumes the post of chairman of the board for the company. |
| 2005 |
The financial aspects of the generational change are finalized so Michael Drest Nielsen ends up owning the majority interest in the company's share capital. It is estimated that sales of Oliver Twist tobacco pellets will replace the smoking of 310 million cigarettes by our consumers. |
| 2009 |
Peer Dyhr takes over the position as managing director and joins Michael Drest Nielsen in the company's executive management. |
| 2011 |
Jørn Frøhlich, attorney-at-law, assumes the post of chariman of the board for the company. Børge Drest Nielsen continues as member of the board. |
| 2012 |
Today, the company is a leader on the world market for twisted smokeless tobacco. |
