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Golfers from around the World Attended the Montecristo Cup in Varadero

The fourth edition of the Montecristo Golf Cup, held April 19-21, 2012 at the Varadero Golf Club in Cuba’s Varadero, was no doubt a moment to feast eyes on.

This year the Montecristo Golf Cup gathered a hundred players from different countries and doled out prizes in a number of categories, in which the Montecristo Cup, by far the most coveted prize up for grabs, went to Canada’s Jim Howars.

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Habanos s.a. announces the dates of the 15th Habanos Festival to be held in 2013

Habanos s.a. is pleased to announce that the 15^th edition of the Habanos Festival will take place from February 26^th to March 2^th 2013.

Exceptionally, the Festival will be celebrated form Tuesday to Saturday. In this next occasion the Welcoming Night will be Tuesday February 26^th, and the Gala Night will take place in Saturday March 2^th.

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Three-Habano Pouch with Wide Churchills, the New Romeo y Julieta’s Churchill, Unveiled

A pouch containing three Wide Churchills, the much-acclaimed new vitola rolled out by the Romeo y Julieta brand, is now available for smokers in the Casa del Habano network around the world.

Its special sizes –unique for this vitola- make the Wide Churchills a particularly luring habano for those smokers who love puffing on thick ring gauge cigars boasting a well-balanced and aromatic blend.

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Habanos S.A. Launches New Quintero Brand’s Favoritos Vitola

Favoritos (Ring gauge 50 x 115 mm long) is the name handpicked for this new vitola that joins the vitola stock of this historic mild taste brand.

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Master Blender, a historic architect

Supplying the workshops with the adequate amounts of leaves depending on each and every brand, acting like a guardian of quality and the characteristics of each Habano based on its taste, scent and strength, is the main task of the Master Blender, a similarly historic architect of the recipes, proportions and mixtures that single out each reference within all of the company’s specific vitola stocks or just when it comes to making new products.

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Habanos (D.O.P.)–Vinhos do Porto (D.O.C. Oporto) Alliance

Centuries-old histories, denominations of origins, land and tradition as backdrop are some of the common things shared by these products that met at the 14^th Habano Festival to close a promising alliance and serve as another expression of the exchanges that began in the wake of that faraway encounter –still unfinished- between Europeans and Cuba’s tobacco 520 year ago.

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THE FIRST RESERVE OF ROMEO Y JULIETA CLOSES THE XIV HABANOS FESTIVAL

The Romeo y Julieta Petit Churchills was also presented. It has one of the most requested formats today thanks to its reduced size, Petit Robusto
The annual Auction of Humidors has received more than 963,000 dollars which will be donated to the Cuban Public Health System

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Blind Tasting: Challenging All Senses and the Passion for Habanos

The blind tasting, an event carried out this year for the second time at the recently concluded 15^th Habano Festival proved to be a competition that challenges the senses of the most passionate and knowledgeable habano lovers.

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Habano 2011 Awards: Recognizing a Lifetime Linked to Habanos

Since 1995, when Habanos S.A. started acknowledging those who have contributed to improving the product, fostering its distribution and spreading the knowledge about it, many have been the personalities who have been awarded the Habano Award.

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First Habano Specialists in Denmark

On March 13 and 14, Habanos Nordic executives granted the status of Habanos Specialist to three stores in Denmark, one of the Scandinavian countries, located to the south of the region.

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Habanos Excels in Panama’s Expocomer Fair

As part of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce delegation, Habanos S.A. attended the Expocomer 2012 multi sector fair that took place March 21-24 at the Atlapa Convention Center, in Panama City.

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Habanos Academy: The Space for Habanos Masters

Conceived as a training system in three levels –Master, Senior and Junior- with the main goal of standardizing the information about Cuban habanos (D.O.P.), the initiative also seeks to reinforce communication regarding such an exclusive product among the staff of Habanos S.A. Exclusive Distributors S.A. throughout the world, and through them, among retailers and the staff of the different sale points and even with the ultimate costumers.