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Villiger: brands it owns and its ownership tree

Villiger is a privately held company headquartered in Pfeffikon, Switzerland that owns 7 consumer brands.[1]

Villiger is a family-owned Swiss cigar and cigarillo group. Its own history page says Jean Villiger founded the cigar factory in 1888 in his home in Pfeffikon, and the company is run today by the fourth and fifth generations of the family. It makes machine-made cigars in Switzerland, Germany and Indonesia, and hand-made cigars through affiliated and subsidiary factories in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Not to be confused with the unrelated Swiss waste-systems firm Villiger Entsorgungssysteme AG.

Company facts

Legal name
Villiger Söhne Holding AG (also Villiger Söhne AG, Villiger Group)
Type
privately held company · see all privately held company owners
Headquarters
🇨🇭 Pfeffikon, Switzerland
Founded
1888
Website
www.villigercigars.com
Last verified
· 1 sources

Villiger in numbers

Everything Villiger owns

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Everything Villiger owns Tree of 7 brands under Villiger. Villiger Constellation Villiger 1492 Villiger 1888 Nicaragua Villiger Cortos Villiger Kiel Villiger Original-Krumme Villiger Shots

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Frequently asked questions

What brands does Villiger own?

Villiger owns 7 consumer brands tracked here, including Villiger Kiel, Villiger Cortos, Villiger Original-Krumme, Constellation, Villiger 1492 and Villiger Shots.

Is Villiger a Swiss company?

Yes. Villiger is headquartered in Pfeffikon, Switzerland and was founded in 1888.

Who owns Villiger?

Villiger is privately held. Villiger is a family-owned Swiss cigar and cigarillo group.

Sources (1) & corrections

Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.

  1. [1] VILLIGER — History and VILLIGER today — Villiger Söhne AG, Official document; retrieved 4 October 2026.

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