Plasencia

As early as 1865, Nestor Plasencia's great-grandfather, Don Eduardo Plasencia, immigrated from the Canary Islands to the Vuelta Abajo region of Cuba to start growing tobacco. The family has been in the business for three generations until they moved to Nicaragua in 1965. After five generations of hard work, they have become one of the most well-known and high-quality premium cigar brands in the world, producing cigars for 30 different brands. They own four cigar factories (two in Nicaragua and two in Honduras), with a total of 6,000 employees, producing 40 million cigars annually. They are also the largest producer of premium cigar wrappers and tobacco suppliers in the world.