Royal Agio Cigars

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Royal Agio Cigars is a cigar producer based in Duizel (municipality of Eersel ) in the Netherlands .

history

The company was founded in 1904 by Jacques Wintermans as A. Wintermans & Zonen . Between 1913 and 1928 further branches, including one in Reusel , were opened. In 1950 the Agio brand was introduced. Much of the production was relocated to Malta in 1972 . In 1983 the Panter and Balmoral brands were taken over from Douwe Egberts . A plantation was opened in Sri Lanka in 1985 and a company in the Dominican Republic in 1990. With the opening of a new production facility and office building in 2007 in Westerlo with 30,000 m², Agio is the largest cigar factory in Europe.

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The company is still held and managed by the Wintermans family. The products are sold in over 100 countries. The brands of Royal Agio Cigars are: Balmoral , Mehari’s , Panter , Agio, De Huifkar and San Pedro de Macoris . Today (2019) Agio employs over 2500 people who produce 770 million cigars annually.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.qad.com/Public/Documents/CS07_Agio_Cigars.pdf
  2. ↑ About Agio Cigars. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .