1900, the old eight brothers came to Harbin to do business with a large number of foreigners. Old Bado soon discovered that all foreign employees have hobbies of smoking pipes and big white cigarettes, and there are no tobacco manufacturers in the market. Seeing that the future tobacco industry is the way to make money, he bought a lot of cut tobacco and great white tobacco from Russia, and hired a China worker to walk the streets every day to sell them.
With the improvement of business, 1902, the old Bado brothers bought a small shop near the Madill Hotel in Daoli Central Street, a Russian manual paper mouth cigarette maker and an ordinary cigarette maker, and hired seven or eight China workers to shred and hand-make Russian workers' big white cigarettes and cigarettes, which quickly occupied the tobacco market in Harbin.
Take history as an example:
1in may, 904, Lao baduo set up a small factory to make Russian-style paper-mouth cigarettes by hand, named "gewanna cigarette factory". 1909, Lao Baduo added a cylinder-making machine and a cigarette filling machine, and changed the manual operation into machine-made cigarettes, thus establishing "Lao Baduo and his son tobacco company".
By the year of 19 1 1, the factory was growing in size, mainly producing two kinds of cigarettes and paper-tip cigarettes, with an annual output of about 50,000 bundles 1 bundle of 50,000 cigarettes. Since then, Lao Baduo's cigarette brand has become famous, and his two brothers have also become millionaires.
After the outbreak of World War I, the supply of cigarettes was in short supply, and Old Baden felt that the capital turnover was difficult. Therefore, he cooperated with British American Tobacco Company and reorganized in 19 14, and changed its name to "British businessman Baden & Son Tobacco Company".
Soon, British American Tobacco Company controlled 80% of the shares of the old Baduo Tobacco Factory. Seeing that the tide was gone, Bado's old brother 1930 went to Paris with huge sums of money.