BUSINESS NEWS RELEASE July 22, 2011
Fuente Fuente Opus X Double Corona wins Cigar Oscar in Las Vegas
Fuente Fuente Opus X Double Corona has just been awarded Cigar Journal's Best Dominican Cigar of the Year award, at the International Premium Pipe and Cigar Retailers Association 79th annual convention and trade show in Las Vegas.
'I'm absolutely delighted that Fuente has received this well-deserved major commendation,' said Mitchell Orchant, managing director, C.Gars Ltd, who attended the awards ceremony.
'I have long thought that the Fuente Dominican brand is the best of the best,' said Orchant, whose company recently signed its first exclusive UK cigar brand distribution – for Arturo Fuente's entire range, 'and this huge award confirms it.'
The trophy itself was redesigned for 2011 to resemble a crystal chaveta, the symbol of the cigar-maker’s art and stands dramatically at an angle on an oval base.
Among the award presentation's audience in LAVO's Italian restaurant nightclub, one of the city's latest hotspots, were many of the tobacco industry’s leading cigar makers, Grammy winner Arturo Sandoval, Hollywood producers, and cigar retailers from around the world.
The ceremony was presented by Cigar Journal’s chief editors, Reinhold Widmayer, and Colin Ganley. Guest presenters included Jorge Armenteros of Tobacconist University, Jose Blanco from the Dominican Republic, and Glynn Loope from Cigar Rights of America.
Seventeen of Cigar Journal's annual awards were announced in Las Vegas, with more to follow at the Inter-tabac in Dortmund, Germany, in September 2011.
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
C.Gars Ltd was launched in 1997 and is now one of the world's largest specialist cigar merchants. It sells premium cigars and related goods from its website, 24/7, every day of the year and runs ten specialist tobacco shops in the UK and Germany, and has an associate company, Decent Cigar Emporium, in Ireland.
The Arturo Fuente cigar brand was established in 1912 in Ybor City, in Tampa, Florida. Until the 1960s, Fuente cigars were made with Cuban tobacco and switched to Dominican tobacco after the U.S. Cuban Embargo.
In 1980, after briefly producing cigars in Tampa, Florida, Fuente's production moved to the Dominican Republic which today remains the centre of the family's tobacco production. The company employs 2,000 staff, owns six factories, and four plantations.
The Fuente Opus X, introduced in 1995, is the Fuente family's renowned flagship cigar. Known for its quality control, Fuente pack every box of cigars with an advanced humidification device to help ensure the stability and freshness of the end product.
For further information please contact the C.Gars Ltd Press Office on 0207 372 1865 (+44 1 207 372 1865) or email:
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