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Little Havanas Historic El Credito Cigar Factory Closes
1100 Southwest 8th Street in Miamis Little Havana will never be the same again.
The famed El Crédito Cigar Factory closed yesterday, although the legendary space will not go to waste: in the coming weeks it will be reinvented as a cigar lounge and retail shoppe. Rising to prominence as the home to the La Gloria Cubana line of cigars and the Perez-Carrillo family, this location has an interesting history filled with its fair share of ups and downs.
Having purchased the business in 1928 while the Perez-Carrillo family was still in Cuba, they subsequently lost it to the Cuban Revolution. Ernesto Sr. decided to emigrate to Miami and later brought his wife and son, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, Jr., who is an icon in todays cigar business. Having started anew as a roller in Miami, Ernesto Sr. once again built an El Crédito in 1969 and slowly but surely he and his son created what became a million-dollar business in the heart of Little Havana on Calle Ocho. During the cigar boom of the early-to-mid 1990s the La Gloria Cubana brand took off and a subsequent factory in the Dominican Republic was built to handle the demand. In 1999 Ernesto Jr sold the business to General Cigar which has owned it ever since.
The new emphasis on smoking enjoyment in the upcoming lounge will allow for fewer than the 10 remaining rollers who create the specialty Artesanos de Miami line to be housed. Created two years ago in limited batches of 250,000, this five-size line will now be made in an even more limited quantity. In turn, the LGC brand will be introducing a new limited edition cigar in three sizes to be made by a team of 18 rollers in their Dominican Republic factory which will be known as the La Gloria Cubana Artesanos de Tabaqueros.
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1100 Southwest 8th Street in Miamis Little Havana will never be the same again.
The famed El Crédito Cigar Factory closed yesterday, although the legendary space will not go to waste: in the coming weeks it will be reinvented as a cigar lounge and retail shoppe. Rising to prominence as the home to the La Gloria Cubana line of cigars and the Perez-Carrillo family, this location has an interesting history filled with its fair share of ups and downs.
Having purchased the business in 1928 while the Perez-Carrillo family was still in Cuba, they subsequently lost it to the Cuban Revolution. Ernesto Sr. decided to emigrate to Miami and later brought his wife and son, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, Jr., who is an icon in todays cigar business. Having started anew as a roller in Miami, Ernesto Sr. once again built an El Crédito in 1969 and slowly but surely he and his son created what became a million-dollar business in the heart of Little Havana on Calle Ocho. During the cigar boom of the early-to-mid 1990s the La Gloria Cubana brand took off and a subsequent factory in the Dominican Republic was built to handle the demand. In 1999 Ernesto Jr sold the business to General Cigar which has owned it ever since.
The new emphasis on smoking enjoyment in the upcoming lounge will allow for fewer than the 10 remaining rollers who create the specialty Artesanos de Miami line to be housed. Created two years ago in limited batches of 250,000, this five-size line will now be made in an even more limited quantity. In turn, the LGC brand will be introducing a new limited edition cigar in three sizes to be made by a team of 18 rollers in their Dominican Republic factory which will be known as the La Gloria Cubana Artesanos de Tabaqueros.
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