瑞士欧廷格大卫杜夫集团宣布，已将其全部股权转让给创始人的直系后代，使这家烟草集团完全交棒至家族新一代手中。官方新闻稿称："已故创始人恩斯特·施奈德博士（Dr. Ernst Schneider）的两个女儿莉莲·沙夫纳-施奈德（Lilian Schaffner-Schneider）与克里斯汀·里赫纳-施奈德（Christine Ryhiner-Schneider），以前瞻性视野为家族企业的未来规划了发展方向。"
大卫杜夫补充说明，公司管理团队将"保持不变"，家族成员"将继续在六人董事会中占据两个席位"。董事会主席多梅尼科·斯卡拉（Domenico Scala）表示："向新一代移交所有权是公司150年历史的重要里程碑，目标是传承创始人的遗产、热忱与开拓精神。"
当《雪茄爱好者》（Cigar Aficionado ）询问股权转让前的持股情况时，大卫杜夫回应称："集团始终是完整的家族企业。"品牌历史始于1911年亨利·大卫杜夫（Henri Davidoff）在日内瓦开设的烟草店，其子季诺（Zino）将其发展为全球顶级雪茄殿堂，不仅首创恒温储存技术，更将品鉴雪茄提升至收藏级体验。
1970年，拥有百年历史的欧廷格集团（Oettinger A.G.）收购大卫杜夫，在施奈德博士的执掌下构建起全球商业版图。施奈德曾向本刊阐述三大成功准则："品质与价格须匹配，理念体系须完善，分销系统须独特，三者兼备方能成就奢侈品牌。"
如今大卫杜夫在多米尼加、洪都拉斯和尼加拉瓜拥有生产基地，旗下涵盖白标签名系列、黑标尼加拉瓜系列、温斯顿·丘吉尔系列等核心产品线，全球网络涵盖65家旗舰店及遍布130余国的特约经销商体系。
Swiss corporation Oettinger Davidoff announced today that it has transferred all of its capital shares to the direct descendants of the company founder, placing the tobacco group completely in the hands of the next family generation.
“The daughters of late company founder Dr. Ernst Schneider, Lilian Schaffner-Schneider and Christine Ryhiner-Schneider have set the course for the future of the family business with foresight,” says the official press release.
Davidoff adds that the leadership team will “remain unchanged” and the family members “will continue to hold two of the six seats of the board of directors.”
Domenico Scala, chairman of the board of directors of Oettinger Davidoff, remarks: “The handover of the ownership of Oettinger Davidoff to the next generation is an important milestone in the company’s 150-year-history. The goal is to preserve, continue and further drive the legacy, passion and pioneering spirit of the company’s founders, above all Dr. Ernst Schneider and Zino Davidoff, and to ensure the company’s continued success.”
When Cigar Aficionado asked who owned the balance of the shares before the transfer, Davidoff responded: “Oettinger Davidoff has always been and remains a fully family-owned company.”
The history of the Davidoff brand started with a single shop that grew into an international powerhouse and symbol of luxury products. In 1911, Henri Davidoff opened a tobacconist in Switzerland after fleeing his native Kiev for political reasons. The business was taken over by his son, Zino, who traveled the world and immersed himself in tobacco culture. The shop became one of the world’s leading cigar destinations, as it not only had one of the few climate-controlled storage environments, but elevated smoking to a high-end experience akin to collecting fine wines and Champagnes. By the late 1960s, Davidoff created his own brand of cigars, which were made in Cuba at the time. They bore the elegantly understated Davidoff white band that we still see today.
In 1970, Davidoff was purchased by an even older tobacco company, Oettinger A.G., which was owned by Dr. Ernst Schneider, who passed away in 2009. Oettinger A.G. was started in 1875, hence Davidoff tying its 150th anniversary to Oettinger’s beginnings. The formation of Oettinger Davidoff and its international reach was based on the vision of Schneider.
“I always used three important points as a means to success,” Schneider said in an interview with Cigar Aficionado editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken. “The first point is that quality and price have to be in order. The second point is the concept has to be in order, and the third point is that you have to make a special distribution system. With all of these together, you will have a successful luxury brand.”
Today, Davidoff has a suite of brands produced in the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. The portfolio includes the Davidoff Signature series (white label), Davidoff Nicaragua (black label), Davidoff Winston Churchill, Avo, Camacho and Zino Platinum. It also has a global network of 65 flagship stores and hundreds of appointed merchants in more than 130 countries.
