1828

Foundation of the playing card factory by Colonel Bernhard Zundel
(1791 - 1863) in the house „Zum Korallenbaum“ on the Herrenacker in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

1829

Johannes Muller from Gachlingen (1813 - 1873) enters into four-year apprenticeship at Zundel’s workshop.

1831

Zundel sells his enterprise to Johann Georg Rauch (1789 - 1851). Rauch transfers the production to Diessenhofen.

1838

Johannes Muller, having become a works foreman, purchases Rauch’s playing card factory for 1750 guilders, paying by installments.

1850

Muller takes up the production of railway tickets to meet the demand of the many new railways lines being built.

1858

With new self-developed and self-made machinery, Muller gradually turns playing card production from hand to machine made.

1863

Johann David Hurter (1807 - 1885) sells his playing card business to Muller, who continues to work in Diessenhofen, but now also operates in Schaffhausen.

1865

Johannes Muller jnr. marries J.D. Hurter’s daughter Margaretha and the merger of the two companies becomes final.

1876

The two production sites are transferred into one at the „Zum wilden Mann“ building in the Neustadt, Schaffhausen.

1889

A competitor in Hasle/Burgdorf is bought in the „interest of maintaining a better price level“.

1890

Muller invents a ticket cabinet for Edmondon’s tickets, this cabinet also has many outlets abroad.

1894

Inclusion of the production of loom controlling paper for Jaquard looms.

1898

Shortage of space leads to the construction of a new plant at today’s location in Neuhausen near the Rhinefalls.

1901

Heinrich Julius Muller (1875 - 1948) takes over the management after the death of his father, Johannes Muller-Hurter.

1904

Through new inventions and machinery, H.J. Muller continues to develop the business, and he also starts to build up contacts abroad.

1954

Construction of a new office building. The old plant is enlarged and renovated.

1960

Transformation of the business into a family stock corporation. Production of shank machine paper is introduced.

1982

The Muller family, after having been the proprietor of AGM for 5 generations, decides to sell the company to Biella Neher, the number one Swiss manufacturer of office supplies.

1986

The production of tickets is sold as it became obsolete because of the new, automatic ticketing machines used by the railways. Staff and production capacity can be maintained.

1988

Foundation of URANIA Verlags AG, publisher of esoteric literature, based in Neuhausen.

1991

Construction of a new, additonal production plant and warehouse.

1997

Management buy-out of the textile division by the then managing director. AGM, under new management of Biella, concentrates on the production of playing cards.

1999

Biella sells AGM to Carta Mundi, Turnhout. URANIA becomes a daughter company of Biella and signs a cooperation agreement with AGM.