Talk:Tabacalera

History and bullshit

tabacalera.com.ph appears to be an unrelated cigar factory. https://tabacalera.com.ph/pages/our-history

SEITA and Tabacalera merged in 1999 https://money.cnn.com/1999/10/06/europe/seita/

but then the brand was somehow revived and it claims its roots date back to 1636 https://tabacaleragroup.com/en/historia/

So is this article about a defunct former monopoly that existed between ~1636 (not sure what evidence they have for that claim) and 1999?

I thought that after the merger it was renamed Altadis and Tabacalera no longer existed.

Or is this article about the tabacaleragroup which claims to have existed for a very long time?

The history page says: After acquiring Altadis in 2008, the Imperial Tobacco Group revived the name Tabacalera for its premium cigar division in 2013. It sounds they started a new company using an old name.

1636

It looks like the Spanish monarchy issued a royal decree in 1636 that created a tobacco monopoly.

While the tobacco monopoly was enacted in 1637, some private activities were maintained. In 1731, however, the state took full control of the industry, concentrating manufacturing in the factory of Seville and creating a special department (Steering Agency at the Treasury Ministry, SATM) to manage it. [1]

And then in 1887 the state leased the publicly owned and state-run monopoly to a private-sector company.[2]

The creation in 1636 of the Estanco del Tabaco (State tobacco monopoly) for the production and sale of tobacco to increase the king's income through the tax on tobacco consumption was strengthened with the assumption of Direct Administration or Universal Administration by the Crown in 1731. Previously, the management of the monopoly was delegated to individuals. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03090728.2020.1725286

In 1887, the state monopoly identified the need to transform the Spanish tobacco factories due to their shortcomings for modern production. Not being able to assume the costs and management of the works, the state transferred the lease of the tobacco monopoly to the CAT. This renovation process would continue gradually through the first decades of the 20th century and accelerated during the era of desarrollismo (developmentalism) with the impulse from Tabacalera, the new leasing company in 1945. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03090728.2020.1725286

In 1887 Compañía Arrendataria de Tabacos (CAT) was founded to manage the state tobacco monopoly. In 1945 CAT was replaced with Tabacalera, a limited company in which the state was the majority shareholder.[3]

So in reality they started not in 1636 but in 1945 under Franco's dictatorship. And Carlos Rein was the vice president. Hm.

Polygnotus (talk) 15:47, 16 October 2024 (UTC)