1873 - Prilep sees the construction of the first warehouse for the purchase and processing of tobacco. This year saw the birth of today's Tobacco Company.

 1949 - A Resolution issued by the Government of Former Yugoslavia established the state-run trading company for tobacco purchase and processing - Prilep.

 1955 - The production of cigarettes began, thereby turning the company into a manufacturing plant for tobacco and cigarettes.

 1958 - The first factory for the artifical fermentation of tobacco , was built.

 1966 - A dam was constructed on an reservoar and a irrigation system enabling irrigation of the tobacco fields in periods of extreme drought.

 1969 - A new modern factory was built exclusively for the production of cigarettes.

 1971 - Plantation production of Virginia tobacco was introduced and corresponding curing facilities constructed.

 1973 - A factory started up manufacturing acetate filter rods.

 1978 - The cigarette factory was rebulit and expanded.

 1988 - Through a joint investment agreement with a foreign firm all stages of the technological chain in the cigarette factory were modernised.

 1990 - The process of privatisation of the Company starts.

 

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