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+In the early 1980s db was taken over by the Dr. Manfred Obermann Company from Berlin and afterwards administrated by PLANTA Tabak-Manufaktur, one of Germany's biggest tobacco companies. The name was changed to '''Pfeifenstudio db - Design Berlin'''. Planta's international business contacts helped a lot to increase exports to England and the United States. Switzerland and Austria are also important customers and recently db is selling well in many East European countries.
+saw another major step in db's history: Planta / db took over the former '''VEB Pfeifen und Holzerzeugnisse Bad Liebenstein''' (shortly "Howal" for "Holzwaren Liebenstein") that had been closed down in 1990 after the consolidation of the two German states. Howal had been the sole producer of tobacco pipes in the late GDR. The company had been founded by Carl Sebastian Reich in Schweina in 1887 and by it's 50th jubilee in 1937 '''C.S. Reich''' was the biggest pipe factory in Germany.
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-Export to England and the United States is the most important. Gradually the factory developed into a brand for series work. The selection runs up to about 45 different series of pipes, mainly in modern shapes that are especially popular among the younger pipe smokers.
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+..., to add new techniques and new skilled workmen to the staff, increasing the level of quality production. The annual production is around 30.000 pipes.
+Gradually the factory developed into a brand for series work. The selection runs up to about 45 different series of pipes, mainly in modern shapes that are especially popular among the younger pipe smokers.
-In 1992 a factory from Thüringen is taken over, to add new techniques and new skilled workmen to the staff, increasing the level of quality production. The annual production is around 30.000 pipes.
+'''Rudolph Apelt''', today on his own as "Baiano", or young and talented '''Martin Schmalz'''.
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+Image:DB_Sa01.jpg|The Manta
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+Image:DB_Sa02.jpg|
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+Image:DB_Sa03.jpg|
+Image:DB_Sa04.jpg|Kolibri
+Image:DB_Inspiration03.jpg|Inspiration 03 (2005)
+Image:DB_Apelt01.jpg|db by Rudolph Apelt
+Image:DB_Schmalz01.jpg|db by Martin Schmalz
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