Sala

A brief history:
1845 A. Sala launched company, an (fine) art publishers in Berlin
1855 A. Sala launched another company ‘Lithographische Kunst und Prägeanstalt’
During following years quite a lot of new or renamed companies are launched
1882 Very first time the term ‘Spiel’ becomes part of a company’s name
‘…, Fabrik Fröbelscher Lehrmittel und Spiele’; belonging to Fortunato Sala (next Generation); positioning of the company was clearly high price/high quality
1908 additional (new) company was launched:
A. Sala, Lithogr. Anstalt, Buchbinderei, Spezialität Gesellschafts- und Beschäftigungsspiele
(Owners: Fortunato & Adolf Saga) – logo changes:
Previously an entangled AS with a crown on top -
from now on a red seal with the letters AS inside, later on the logo ‘SALA’ inside
Slightly changed it remains the company’s logo until early 1990s, often flanked by the label 'Rotsiegel': Verlag der Rotsiegelspiele

After WWI until WWII an economic crash led to less quality & less edition of copies,
and, as seen in other German companies, to ‘Nazi game themes’.

After WWII Outsourcing of production: Schwertle & Schanz, Berlin
Early 1990: Company Sala was sold to Schwertle & Schanz, Berlin
1992 Renaming Sala to Salagames; previous game progam of Hexagames (I) was taken over
1993 distribution of Salagames by Fun Connection
1994 logo Salagames disappears from the market
1995 Acquisition of Fun Connection by Schwertle & Schanz, Berlin
(1998 Schwertle & Schanz, Berlin are sold to Gundlach group)

Data obtained from a publication of Rudolf Rühle/for more information see Spielbox 5/2003 pages 40-41