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Emma Beatrice Tenayuca (December 21, 1916 – July 23, 1999) was an American labor leader, union organizer, civil rights activist, and educator. She is best known for her work organizing Mexican workers in Texas during the 1930s, particularly for leading the 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike.
1. Habanos S.A.; 2. General Cigar Co. Dueling Cuban and non-Cuban brands; non-Cuban made in the Dominican Republic. Bongani. Bongani Cigars; distributed by Boutique Stogies Ltd in the USA. The first fully-African cigar brand, made in Mozambique using African tobacco. "Bongani" means "Be Grateful" in the Zulu language .
Added to NRHP. March 15, 2000. The General Cigar Company building at Evansville, Indiana was built in 1902, and expanded in 1929. It is a three-story, L-shaped red brick building with Arts and Crafts style design elements. [9] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Niels Frederiksen ( CEO) Products. Cigars, pipe tobacco. Number of employees. approx. 8,100. Website. www.st-group.com. Scandinavian Tobacco Group is a manufacturer of cigars and traditional pipe tobacco. [1] [2] [3] The city company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is a publicly listed Company on Nasdaq Copenhagen.
The Finck family is a German family and banking dynasty which became prominent in Germany and Europe during the 19th and 20th century. Members of the family were involved with various companies, as early as 1790, when Burckhard Finck founded Finck & Schäfer in Bad Vilbel , a wholesale and retailer for liquor , oil, soap and colonial goods .
Frank Anthony Llaneza (March 9, 1920 – March 18, 2010) was a tobacco blender and former executive of Villazon & Co. who is regarded as a pioneer in the resurgence of the premium cigar industry at the end of the 20th Century. Llaneza is best known for the creation and manufacture of a number of popular cigar brands in the years after the 1962 ...
Cuban cigars are cigars manufactured in Cuba from tobacco grown within that island nation. Historically regarded as among the world's “finest”, they are synonymous with the island's culture and contribute over one quarter of the value of all exports from the country. The filler, binder, and wrapper may come from different areas of the ...
J.C. Newman Cigar Company was established in 1895 and is the oldest family-owned premium cigar maker in the United States. [1] It was founded in Cleveland, Ohio by Julius Caeser Newman, a Hungarian immigrant. The business relocated to a historic 1910 cigar factory ( Regensburg cigar factory) in the Cigar City of Ybor City, Florida in 1954.