subject: Smoking Kills And Harms Your Conditioning. But The Story Does Not Modify. Brand Name Davidoff Cigare [print this page] His parents were either cigar merchants or cigarette manufacturers in Kiev. Fleeing the political turmoil, his parents left some of their family behind and emigrated to Geneva, Switzerland in 1911 for a better life, where they opened their own tobacconist shop in 1912. Finishing school in 1924, Zino went to Latin America to learn about the tobacco trade, spending time in such places as Argentina, Brazil and finally Cuba where he spent two years working on a plantation and first encountered Cuban cigars. Returning to Switzerland around 1930, he took over his parents' shop. What had originally been a modest tobacco shop grew into a rich business during and after World War II. Neutral Switzerland was spared much of the havoc wreaked elsewhere in Europe and became a haven for wealthy tobacco customers.
Zino was particularly successful in marketing the Hoyo de Monterrey Chteaux Series of Cuban cigars created for Zurich cigar distributor A Drr Co. in the 1940s and named after great Bordeaux wines. Around this time, Zino is also credited by many as having invented the first desktop cigar humidor, in order to preserve cigars at the same conditions of humidity and temperature under which they were rolled in Havana. Davidoff also had success writing several books on cigar smoking and Cuban cigar brands.
In 1970, Zino sold his small but highly successful tobacco shop in Geneva to the Max Oettinger Company. Buy Cheap Davidoff Cigarettes Online. Zino stayed on as Davidoffs ambassador until his death in 1994 at the age of 87. He was survived by his wife, a daughter and his three siblings. The Max Oettiger Company, which took over Davidoff, was founded in 1875 and was one of the first importers of Havana cigars to Europe, selling its wares in France, Germany and Switzerland.[1] Headed by the Swiss-born Ernst Schneider, Oettiger paid in excess of $1 million for the Davidoff shop, considered by many at the time to be an exorbitant price. In 1967, Davidoff was approached by Cubatabaco, Cuba's state tobacco monopoly after the Revolution, about creating a personal brand of cigars for his stores.
The cigars were rolled in the newly-established El Laguito factory in Havana, which had been established to roll Cuban President Fidel Castro's own private cigars, Cohba. In 1968, the first productions of Davidoff cigars were released, which included the No. 1, the No. 2, and Ambassadrice (which all shared the same sizes as the early Cohiba line) and the Chteaux Series (now no longer under the Hoyo de Monterrey label, but exclusively made for the Davidoff marque). In the 1970s, the Mille Series, a milder blend than the rest of the line, and the Dom Prignon, named for the famous champagne, were released on the market.
In 1986, a special limited release of 80 Anniversarios cigars were made to celebrate Zino's 80th birthday. In 1982, the Chteau Yquem cigar produced by Davidoff was discontinued after the owner of Chteau d'Yquem wine protested their unauthorized use of the trade name. The Chteau Mouton Rothschild came out shortly after, though with a different blend and slightly different size to its predecessor. In August 2006, Imperial Tobacco acquired the worldwide Davidoff cigarette trademark from its owners, Tchibo Holding AG for 368 million (540 million).
Imperial Tobacco Group had been the licensee of the worldwide Davidoff cigarette trademark since its acquisition of Reemtsma in 2002. The cigarette range includes the Magnum, Supreme, Classic, Mild, Lights, Magnum Lights, Slims, Super Slims, Ultra lights, Menthol, Menthol Lights, One and Gold.
