My Wednesday of Procigar 2016 was supposed to begin with a trip to General Cigar Dominicana. It’s not because I wanted to go back to General, it’s because I wanted to go to General. Last year, I woke up ill on Wednesday imorning and spent almost 24 hours in the hotel being sick while the rest of Procigar did their thing. It wasn’t fun under any accord, but it also meant that I knew I was going to get to General this year. Turns out, I probably need to go again. We left on time and made it to General relatively on time. General is located in the free-trade zone, albeit not the newer one. It’s an almost hodgepodge of factories connected by various hallways including two different premium cigar rolling operations and a machine made business, along with tobacco processing, executive offices and packaging. Our morning started with coffee, cigars and a brief presentation about General Cigar Dominicana and its parent company, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG). Much of it sounded familiar from other factories, three things stood out. STG employees just under 4,000 full-time employees between its operations in the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. It also claims to ...
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