Bacardí who is chairman of the board. ==History== ===Early history=== Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Spanish wine merchant, was born in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain, in 1814, and emigrated to Santiago, Cuba in 1830.
Bacardí who is chairman of the board. ==History== ===Early history=== Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Spanish wine merchant, was born in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain, in 1814, and emigrated to Santiago, Cuba in 1830.
Founded in Cuba in 1862 and family-owned for seven generations, Bacardi Limited employs more than 7,000 people with sales in approximately 170 countries.
The final product was the first clear, light-bodied and mixable "white" rum in the world. Moving from the experimental stage to a more commercial endeavour as local sales began to grow, Facundo and his brother José purchased a Santiago de Cuba distillery on February 4, 1862, which housed a still made of copper and cast iron.
The 300 employees occupy of leased office space. ==References== ==External links== Map of Distillery in Puerto Rico from Google Maps Food and drink companies established in 1862 Food and drink companies of Bermuda Distilleries Privately held companies of Bermuda Rums 1862 establishments in Cuba Food and drink companies of Cuba
This logo was pragmatic considering the high illiteracy rate in the 19th century, enabling customers to easily identify the product. The 1880s and 90s were turbulent times for Cuba and the company.
With Don Facundo's passing in 1886, Doña Amalia sought refuge by exile in Kingston, Jamaica.
In 1899, Emilio Bacardí became the first democratically elected mayor of Santiago, appointed US General Leonard Wood. During his time in public office, Emilio established schools and hospitals, completed municipal projects such as the famous Padre Pico Street and the Bacardi Dam, financed the creation of parks, and decorated the city of Santiago with monuments and sculptures.
In 1912, Emilio and his wife travelled to Egypt, where he purchased a mummy (still on display) for the future Emilio Bacardi Moreau Municipal Museum in Santiago de Cuba.
The New York plant was soon shut down due to Prohibition, yet during this time Cuba became a hotspot for US tourists, kicking off a period of rapid growth for the Bacardi company and the onset of cocktail culture in America. In 1922 the family completed the expansion and renovation of the original distillery in Santiago, increasing the sites rum production capacity.
In 1927, Bacardi ventured outside the realm of spirits for the first time, with the introduction of an authentic Cuban Malt beer: Hatuey beer. Bacardi's success in transitioning into an international brand and company was due mostly to Schueg, who branded Cuba as "The home of rum", and Bacardi as "The king of rums and the rum of Kings".
In 1930 Schueg oversaw the construction and opening of Edificio Bacardí in Havana, regarded as one of the finest Art Deco buildings in Latin America, as the third generation of the Bacardí family entered the business.
Expansion began overseas, first to Mexico in 1931 where it had architects Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela design office buildings and a bottling plant in Mexico City during the 1950s.
In 1936, Bacardi began producing rum on U.S.
In addition, both Bacardi Reserva Ocho and Bacardi Gran Reserva Diez were awarded the top honor of Grand Gold quality award. ==Hemingway connection== Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba from 1939 until shortly after the Cuban Revolution.
The company later expanded to the United States in 1944 with the opening of Bacardi Imports, Inc.
Pepin founded Bacardi Imports in New York City, and became Cuba's Minister of the Treasury in 1949. ===Cuban Revolution=== During the years of the Cuban Revolution, the Bacardí family (and hence the company) supported and aided the rebels.
Expansion began overseas, first to Mexico in 1931 where it had architects Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela design office buildings and a bottling plant in Mexico City during the 1950s.
He lived at Finca Vigía, in the small town of San Francisco de Paula, located very close to Bacardi's Modelo Brewery for Hatuey Beer in Cotorro, Havana. In 1954, Compañía Ron Bacardi S.A.
However, after the triumph of the revolutionaries, and turn to Communism, the family maintained a fierce opposition to Fidel Castro's policies in Cuba in the 1960s.
In his book Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba, Tom Gjelten describes how the Bacardí family and the company left Cuba in exile after the Cuban government illegally confiscated the company's Cuban assets without compensation on 14 October 1960, particularly nationalizing and banning all private property on the island as well as all bank accounts.
Hemingway wrote in Islands in the Stream, "...this frozen daiquirí, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots." ==Bacardi in the United States== In 1964 Bacardi opened its new US offices in Miami, Florida.
This helped the company survive after the Cuban government confiscated all Bacardí assets in the country without any compensation. In 1965, over 100 years after the company was established in Cuba, Bacardi established new roots and found a new home with global headquarters in Hamilton, Bermuda.
They therefore allowed the US trademark registration for "Havana Club" to lapse in 1973.
Outside, on both sides of the eight-story building, more than 28,000 tiles painted and fired by Brazilian artist Francisco Brennand, depicting abstract blue flowers, were placed on the walls according to the artist's exact specifications. In 1973, the Company commissioned the square building in the plaza.
Taking advantage of the lapse, the Cuban government registered the mark in the United States in 1976.
The brand was assigned by the Cuban government to Pernod Ricard in 1993. Bacardí rekindled the story of the Arechabala family and Havana Club in the United States when it launched the AMPARO Experience in 2018, an immersive play experience based in Miami, the city with the highest population of Cuban exiles.
In 1993, Bacardi merged with Martini & Rossi, the Italian producer of Martini vermouth and sparkling wines, creating the Bacardi-Martini group. In 1998, the company acquired Dewar's scotch, including Royal Brackla and Bombay Sapphire gin from Diageo for $2 billion.
In 1993, Bacardi merged with Martini & Rossi, the Italian producer of Martini vermouth and sparkling wines, creating the Bacardi-Martini group. In 1998, the company acquired Dewar's scotch, including Royal Brackla and Bombay Sapphire gin from Diageo for $2 billion.
In February 2019, Bacardi's CEO, Mahesh Madhavan, stated that Bacardí's global headquarters would remain in Bermuda for the next "500 years" and that "Bermuda is our home now." In 1999, Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardí, drafted section 211 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, FY1999 (), a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act.
The building complex was added to the tentative list of UNESCO's World Heritage Site list on 20 November 2001.
It was ruled illegal by the WTO in 2001 and 2002.
It was ruled illegal by the WTO in 2001 and 2002.
Bacardi acquired the Cazadores tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French-made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $2 billion.
Bacardi acquired the Cazadores tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French-made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $2 billion.
In 2006 Bacardi Limited purchased New Zealand vodka brand 42 Below.
Dietz. In 2006, Bacardi USA leased a 15-story headquarters complex in Coral Gables, Florida.
In 2007 Chad Oppenheim, the head of Oppenheim Architecture + Design, described the Bacardi buildings as "elegant, with a Modernist [look combined with] a local flavour." The current American headquarters is in Coral Gables, Florida.
6, 2009, when it was designated by unanimous decision by the Historic and Environmental Preservation Board.
The brand was assigned by the Cuban government to Pernod Ricard in 1993. Bacardí rekindled the story of the Arechabala family and Havana Club in the United States when it launched the AMPARO Experience in 2018, an immersive play experience based in Miami, the city with the highest population of Cuban exiles.
In February 2019, Bacardi's CEO, Mahesh Madhavan, stated that Bacardí's global headquarters would remain in Bermuda for the next "500 years" and that "Bermuda is our home now." In 1999, Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardí, drafted section 211 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, FY1999 (), a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act.
In 2020, Bacardi Superior, Bacardi Gold, Bacardi Black, Bacardi Añejo Cuatro were each awarded a gold medal by the International Quality Institute Monde Selection.
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