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Arturo Fuente, Sr. had originally envisioned passing the small family cigar business on to his eldest son, Arturo, Junior, but it was his younger son Carlos that spent the most time working in the firm, so it was to him that it was offered in 1958. Carlos Fuente, Sr. bought the business from his
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in the Fuente tobacco fields. The film was scheduled to shoot in July of that year, however—a time after the crop had already been harvested. To provide a setting for the film 15 acres were planted by Fuente in tobacco during what would ordinarily have been the off season. The resulting special
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in 1924, by which time A. Fuente & Co. had grown to the point that it employed 500 workers. However late in 1924 disaster struck the company and their building burned to the ground. Production of the brand was halted; it would not be until 1946, 22 years later, that production of the brand
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as a boy of 12 but was fortunate in recovering well enough to walk normally, unlike many victims of the disease. He dropped out of school before graduating high school and was married at age 18. Because the cigar business struggled during the 1940s and 1950s, Carlos, Sr. took a job as a
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crop—harvested, cured, and manufactured for first release in 2009 — was very successfully marketed as the Opus X Lost City
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American production uneconomical. In addition, the company had increasing difficulty in finding qualified cigar rollers in Florida. Efforts were made to establish the brand's production in
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to release several watches dedicated to their cigars: the Hublot King Power Arturo Fuente in 2012, and the Hublot
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Arturo Fuente cigar boxes at 2005 Tampa Cigar
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father for exactly $ 1—purchasing $ 1,161 in assets and zero debt. At the time the company made only a few thousand cigars a year.
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Fuente is also known for quality control. The Fuente family packs their cigar boxes with an advanced 2-way humidification device (
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magazine's 2005 Cigar of the Year and the
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