
HVA Timeline

1878
1878

Establishment of HVA
1879
1879

HVA begins trading
1880
1880

HVA has the largest sugar production capacity in the world
1914
1917
1917

Treaty of Versailles
1920
1920

HVA in the top 10 of agricultural producers and traders in the world
1928
1939
1940
1940

HVA headquarters moved from Amsterdam to Surabaya
1941
1941

Pearl Harbour attack (7/12/1941)
1941

Acquisition of Njoenjoer coffee company
1942
1942

HVA staff inprisoned in Indonesia by invaders (149 of them perished)
1945
1951
1951

Start of the sugar sector in Ethiopia by HVA
1953
1953

Advent of color television
1957
1957

End of HVA’s 78 years activities in Indonesia
1958
1958

Establishment of the United HVA companies Ltd. (VHVAM)
1959
1959

Sputnik is launched by the USSR
1960
1960

Setup of the Kilombero sugar factory in Tanzania
1963
1965
1965

Third HVA sugar factory in Ethiopia: Metahara
1969
1969

Building of “Victoria” – Palmoil farm and factory in Surinam
1969

Capacity expansion works on the Indonesian Djatitoro and Semboro sugar factories
1970
1970

Establishment of the Brazilian Palmoil project “Denpasa”
1971
1971

Rehabilitation of the Sidamanik Tea farm in Sumatra-Indonesia
1975
1975

Transfer of HVA – Ethiopia shares to the Ethiopian army
1976
1976

Opening of Palmoil factory in Amazonas – Brazil
1977
1977

Setup of Sennar sugar factory in Sudan
1980
1980

Large scale integrated poultry projects in a.o. Saudi Arabia, Lybia and Sudan
1982
1982

HVA sets up WAMCO IDL the largest dairy in Africa
1989
1989

Creation of the Internet/ World Wide Web
1991