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Real Estate Developer Buys Cigar Factory, Starts Brand
Posted: Friday, January 19, 2007
By Gregory Mottola
The newest Dominican cigar brand is the result of a
personal quest gone large.
After decades of being a prolific cigar smoker, real-estate
developer Gene Arganese hoped to commission a
Dominican factory to produce private-label cigars exclusively
for his personal use. He toured several factories in
the Dominican Republic, but was dissatisfied with the limited
control he would have had over the blending process,
so he decided to buy an entire factory instead and devote
the operation solely to the production of his cigars.
The factory, Tabacalera Don Rogue, is located in the cigarmaking
down of Tamboril, Dominican Republic. Arganese
acquired the factory in February 2005 and promptly
renamed it Arganese Dominicana S.A. Over the past year he
has staffed the factory with blenders and rollers.
For more on this story, see the January 9 issue of Cigar Insider.
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