Brand Profile

In the cigar world, Partagas is one of the oldest and well-known of all Cuban cigar brands.  It is named for it's founder, Don Jaime Partagas, who In 1845, opened up the cigar factory at 520 Industria Street in Havana, Cuba.  After his death, the Partagas cigar brand passed to Ramon Cifuentes in 1889 and was owned by Cifuentes y Cia prior to nationalization of the Cuban cigar industry, earning a mention by name in English novelist Evelyn Waugh's 1945 work, Brideshead Revisited.  Partagas cigars also won gold medals in at least three international expositions between 1867 and 1884.

Since the nationalization of the cigar industry in Cuba, the Partagas cigar line has been produced in 11 different cigar factories, including the iconic Partagas cigar factory, renamed Fernando Perez after the nationalization.