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sold his remaining shares to
Cifuentes the following year. Cifuentes took over management of Partagás with José Fernández López and was joined in 1916 by the Galician vegas owner and leaf wholesaler, Francisco Pego Pita, who in turn sold the company to Cifuentes, Fernández y Cía in 1900. In 1916, Don José Fernández left the firm and Ramón Cifuentes Llano joined with
168:, 1816 - Vuelta abajo, Cuba, 1868) was the son of Jaume Partagás (tailor) and Teresa Ravell. He migrated to Cuba in 1831 and worked for Lloret de Mar businessman, Joan Conill in Havana. Establishing his own factory, La Flor de Tabacas de Partagás in 1845, at 1 Cristina St. in Havana (later relocated to Calle Industria), Don Jaime owned many plantations in the
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annual releases, Partagás has produced a special size almost every year: the Pirámide in 2000, the Serie D No. 3 in 2001, the Serie D No. 2 in 2003, the Serie D No. 1 in 2004, a reissue of the Serie D No. 3 in 2006, and the Serie D No. 5 in 2008. In 2005, Partagás introduced a pyramid, the Serie P
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and encountered Ramón
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Don Jaime was murdered on one of his plantations in 1868 and his son José Partagás took over the business. Later the factory and brand were sold to banker José A. Bances. In 1899, Bances invited Ramón
Cifuentes Llano (1854-1938), a tabaquero from Ribadesella Spain – to join him as partner. Bances
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Cifuentes Llano died in 1938 and Pego in 1940, leaving his three sons in charge of Partagas. Ramón Cifuentes Toriello and his two brothers continued to build the increasingly prestigious factory and brand, and renamed the company Cifuentes y Cía. In 1954, the Cifuentes family acquired the
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tobacco-growing region of Cuba. Don Jaime's ability to choose from among the finest tobaccos on the island, and an instinct for blending and fermenting tobaccos made the brand incredibly successful. Don Jaime is also legendarily credited with hiring one of the first
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Cifuentes family's patriarch, Ramón Cifuentes Toriello, was initially offered the job of heading Cuba's new state-owned tobacco monopoly, but refused and instead emigrated from the country, moving to the United States.
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The following list of vitolas de salida (commercial vitolas) within the Partagás marque lists their size and ring gauge in
Imperial (and Metric), their vitolas de galera (factory vitolas), and their English translation.
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within a brand, and eliminating many low-selling cigars. Many of Partagás lesser-known handmade and all machine-made cigars were cut from production. Today, all Cuban Partagás cigar vitolas are hand-made.
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In 1995 the 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m) Santiago facility employed approximately 600 workers, who produced cigars bearing both the
Partagas and
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labels. Approximately 8 million Partagás cigars were produced by General Cigar Dominicana in that year.
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scheme, save with the word "Habana" replaced by the date "1845" on the packaging.
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vacationing in Cuba. The move to the new factory took place on January 2, 2012.
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Serie C No. 3 (2012) - 5.5" x 48 (140 x 48), Hermoso No. 3, a grand corona
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Serie D Especial (2010) - 5.6" x 50 (141 x 50), Gordito, a robusto extra
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396:" × 49 (194 × 19.45 mm), Prominente, a double corona
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604:" × 52 (156 × 20.64 mm), Pirámide, a pyramid
344:" × 40 (117 × 15.88 mm), Coronita, a petit corona
516:" × 50 (124 × 19.84 mm), Robusto, a robusto
490:" × 38 (165 × 15.08 mm), Parejo, a panetela
357:" × 42 (133 × 16.67 mm), Eminente, a corona
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461:" × 47 (159 × 18.65 mm), Taco, a perfecto
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370:" × 39 (146 × 15.48 mm), Culebras, a culebra
448:" × 42 (133 × 16.67 mm), Eminente, a corona
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422:" × 43 (171 × 17.07 mm), Dalia, a lonsdale
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