From paper bag to fruit punnet

Boycotted by packaging manufacturers, Migros established the Sabina Consortium in 1934. The Zurich-based packaging manufacturer, whose mandate included providing employment for people with disabilities, was later integrated into Migros’ own printing company, Limmatdruck.

Paper bags are first produced at Silhquai 189 in Zurich in 1931. Migros AG thus lays the groundwork for the Sabina Cooperative, which is founded three years later, and for the packaging sector of what later becomes Limmatdruck AG. Like many other suppliers, packaging manufacturers refuse to supply Migros in protest at this time.
Six years after its founding, the Sabina Cooperative produces its first cardboard fruit punnets. The head of Sabina at this time is Hans Sappeur, later the personnel manager of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives and Duttweiler’s companion in the LdU (Landesring der Unabhängigen). Under his management, the Sabina Cooperative also provides employment for people with hearing and other minor disabilities.
Over the decades, the company develops into a comprehensive packaging manufacturer and in 1981 is integrated into Limmatdruck AG, founded in 1945 by Duttweiler as a newspaper printing plant.