Partagás is a brand name of cigars that are made by two independent & competing entities, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company; (Spanish: Empresa estatal cubana de tabaco) the other, containing no Cuban tobacco, produced in the Dominican Republic for General Cigar Company, a division of Scandinavian Tobacco Group of Denmark.

The Cuban version is the original and among the oldest extant cigar brands, established in Havana in 1845.

[1] He migrated to Cuba in 1831 and worked for Lloret de Mar businessman, Joan Conill in Havana.

[1] Establishing his own factory, La Flor de Tabacas de Partagás in 1845, at 1 Cristina St.[2] in Havana (later relocated to Calle Industria), Don Jaime owned many plantations in the Vuelta Abajo tobacco-growing region of Cuba.

[1] Don Jaime is also legendarily credited with hiring one of the first lectors to entertain the cigar rollers as they worked.

[1] In 1899, Bances invited Ramón Cifuentes Llano (1854-1938), a tabaquero from Ribadesella Spain – to join him as partner.

Since the introduction of the Edición Limitada annual releases, Partagás has produced a special size almost every year: the Pirámide in 2000, the Serie D No.

Hand-Made Vitolas Edición Limitada Releases Following the Cuban Revolution and the seizure of the Partagás factory, the Cifuentes family's patriarch, Ramón Cifuentes Toriello, was initially offered the job of heading Cuba's new state-owned tobacco monopoly, but refused and instead emigrated from the country, moving to the United States.

[4] In 1995 the 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) Santiago facility employed approximately 600 workers, who produced cigars bearing both the Partagas and Macanudo labels.

[4] A similar trade dress to the Cuban product has been used by General Cigar for its competing version of the Partagás brand, employing a red-and-gold band scheme, save with the word "Habana" replaced by the date "1845" on the packaging.