The company's actual beverage portfolio includes a minority stake in Cervecería Nacional Dominicana, owner of Presidente beer, one of the top sellers in the Caribbean, in partnership with Anheuser-Busch InBev.

His father, Antonio Gavino León González (1848-1914), had purchased tobacco lands in Guazumal from the Hernández and Polanco families of Tamboril at the end of the XIX century.

Trujillo's assassination in 1961 created more civil unrest, but it did provide an opportunity for E. León Jimenes, C. por A., including La Aurora cigar factory, to expand.

As soon as Trujillo was assassinated, the directives of the company began to subscribe new contracts, generate new relationships and build its first cigarette factory in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.

From the rural community of Don Pedro, Guazumal, in 1903, with around five workers and a production of 600 cigars per day, the enterprise consolidated its prestige based on its excellent confection, and a superior quality that was evidenced in its texture, smell and flavor, which later allowed it to compete with other brands more known and powerful in the country.

Its cigars’ brand offer grew, new marketing and distribution strategies were applied, practices of good citizenship and remuneration to staff were systematized, and the subscribed capital was increased, incorporating new shareholders to the company.

By April 1963 was inaugurated its cigarette factory, and by 1969, six years later, E. León Jimenes, C. por A. forged a relationship with the multinational Philip Morris International, the biggest fabricator – worldwide – of cigars, by means of the subscription of an association contract.

As a result of the new partnership with Philip Morris, the company initiated production and commercialization of internationally recognized brands like Marlboro, launched in the Dominican Republic in October 1969.

Afterwards, in January 1986, a very important year for the company, E. León Jimenes, C. por A. was able to buy out its largest competitor, Cervecería Nacional Dominicana, S.A., known by its king brand Presidente, allowing it to control nearly 98 percent of the market.

The marketing magazine Mercado published the results of many surveys conducted by Read & Asociados in which E. León Jimenes, S.A. was ranked as "the most admired company"[1] in the Dominican Republic for multiple years.

On 16 April 2012, Anheuser-Busch InBev's Brazilian unit AmBev agreed to buy a controlling stake in the brewer Cervecería Nacional Dominicana, S.A. from E. León Jimenes, S.A. for over US$1.2 billion, forming the biggest beverage company in the Caribbean.