The chronicle of Eger Tobacco Factory
The cigar factory
1904 was the year that Román Boltizár left. He became director of the Szomolnok factory from where he retired in 1913. Just as the walls of the factory building had held firm for 100 years on the strong foundations laid by István Staud’s men, so the operations of the factory rested solid on the foundations laid by Román Boltizár. He was succeeded by Lózer Henrik, who was transferred from Szomolnok, arrived and took *up residence in the five-room apartment in the director’s wing of the building - and almost seemed to disappear. It was as if he really needn’t have come, so untroubled and calm were the years of his directorship. For six years, until 1910, the factory chronicles have nothing out of the ordinary to relate. These were years of quiet and steady development. The Eger factory was one of several Hungarian Crown factories. Whereas in 1894 17 such factories were in operation, by 1910 their number had risen to 22. In 1895 the Zengg tobacco factory came into being, in 1897 the factory at Sepsiszentgyörgy, and a year later the factories at Munkács and Szepesbéla. In 1910 the Pécs factory was fitted out along the same lines as its contemporary, the Budapest-Lágymányos factory, and Quality cigars Average quality cigars Number of employees 1910 1895 Year 781 31.836.548 pieces 2.039.500 pieces
