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Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft
Extracted from the Wikipedia article SIG Group.
Originally founded 1853 as a railway car producer named Schweizerische Waggonfabrik ("Swiss Wagon Factory"), it was renamed SIG (Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft, German for Swiss Industrial Company; in French, as Société Industrielle Suisse; and, in Italian, as Società Industriale Svizzera) a decade later, after it had won a contract for the production of firearms by the Swiss government.