1898
Henri Vincent-Genod builds a house (chemin de la Combe du Marais Saint Claude) with a pipemaker workshop on the ground floor.
1909
Léon Vincent-Genod, son of Henri, enlarges the workshop and in 1912 he builds a tobacco humidor factory in the workshop's continuation.
1920
Jules, son of Léon, develops the business by acquisition of the Camelin tobacco humidor factory.
1923
Jules takes over the Verguet-Buffet pipe factory.