SIG Sauer
2010s
In April 2019 Cohen and two other executives were convicted of breaking export laws. Cohen was given an 18-month suspended sentence and fined $675,000. SIG Sauer GmbH was fined $12 million by the court.
SIG Sauer
SIG Sauer is, since the 1970s, a combined brand name of several firearms manufacturing companies, with SIG referring to Swiss Industry Group originally founded 1853, while the latter part comes from Sauer & Sohn, founded in 1751 in Germany and still active there. With Switzerland limiting the export of weapons, the partnership started with the SIG Sauer P220 in 1975.
SIG Sauer
Several sister companies design and manufacture firearms using the trade name SIG Sauer [ɛs iː ɡeː ˈzaʊ̯ɐ] and it is also a registered brand name. The original company, Schweizerische Waggonfabrik (SWF), later Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG), went through several selloffs, leaving the SIG Sauer brand spread over several companies. The original SIG is now known as SIG Group and no longer has any firearms business.
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