HVA Timeline
1878
Establishment of HVA
1879
HVA begins trading
1880
HVA has the largest sugar production capacity in the world
1914
The Panama Canal is completed
1917
Treaty of Versailles
1920
HVA in the top 10 of agricultural producers and traders in the world
1928
Penicillin is discovered
1939
Start of WWII
1940
HVA headquarters moved from Amsterdam to Surabaya
1941
Pearl Harbour attack (7/12/1941)
Acquisition of Njoenjoer coffee company
1942
HVA staff inprisoned in Indonesia by invaders (149 of them perished)
1945
End of the 2nd world war – and rehabilitation of the farms and factories
1951
Start of the sugar sector in Ethiopia by HVA
1953
Advent of color television
1957
End of HVA’s 78 years activities in Indonesia
1958
Establishment of the United HVA companies Ltd. (VHVAM)
1959
Sputnik is launched by the USSR
1960
Setup of the Kilombero sugar factory in Tanzania
1963
US President John F. Kennedy assasinated
1965
Third HVA sugar factory in Ethiopia: Metahara
1969
Capacity expansion works on the Indonesian Djatitoro and Semboro sugar factories
Building of “Victoria” – Palmoil farm and factory in Surinam
1970
Establishment of the Brazilian Palmoil project “Denpasa”
1971
Rehabilitation of the Sidamanik Tea farm in Sumatra-Indonesia
1975
Transfer of HVA – Ethiopia shares to the Ethiopian army
1976
Opening of Palmoil factory in Amazonas – Brazil
1977
Setup of Sennar sugar factory in Sudan
1980
Large scale integrated poultry projects in a.o. Saudi Arabia, Lybia and Sudan
1982
HVA sets up WAMCO IDL the largest dairy in Africa
1989
Creation of the Internet/ World Wide Web
1991
Fall of the Berlin wall
