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The Commerce Department was set up towards the end of 2000, on the recommendation of the Operations Review carried out in the Ministry for Economic Services.

In 1969 Malta ratified the Universal Copyright Convention and in 1977 joined the World Intellectual Property Organisation. In 1994 Malta became a founder member of the World Trade Organisation and was thus bound by the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights as from 2000. That very same year the century old laws governing copyright, patents and trademarks were repealed and replaced by new legislation. In 2002 new legislation concerning design was also introduced.

Vincenzo Marich, born circa 1813, registered the business, known today as V. Marich and Co., in 1838. Vinenzo was marrier to Natalizia Lo Re (Lore) and had no children of their own. By 1862, the business received its first appointment by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales in 1862, where permission to affix "By appointment to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales" over the door of their establishment was granted. Vincenzo probably retired from the business around 1864, handing over the business to Lawrence Rizzo Marich.

Lawrence Rizzo Marich, who was the first cousin, once removed of Vincenzo Marich, was first involved in the business as an apprentice to help in the daily running of the business. By the time the business was handed over to Lawrence, the company had taken the new established name V. Marich and Co. since the first mention of this company was in the mid-1860s.

Joseph Rizzo Marich was born in Valletta in July, 1867. Joseph was involved in the running of the business V. Marich and Co. along with his brother, Alfred Rizzo Marich (1860-1897). Both brothers took over the business from their father, Lawrence Rizzo Marich (1828-1887), however, his brother died at the young age of 36, leaving the business in his hands until his brother's children were old enough to run the business.

During Joseph's running of the business, V. Marich and Co. entered into an agreement with A. G. Cousis and Co. to manufacture Marich cigarettes. Adverts in foreign newspapers indicate that the selling of and exporting of cigarettes started around 1905 onwards.