Dutch Masters (cigar)

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Dutch Masters
Dutch masters cigars logo.png
Rembrandt - De Staalmeesters- het college van staalmeesters (waardijns) van het Amsterdamse lakenbereidersgilde - Google Art Project.jpg
Syndics of the Drapers' Guild painting by Rembrandt, featured on DM packages
Product type Cigar
Owner Imperial Brands
Produced by ITG Brands
Introduced1912;113 years ago (1912)
MarketsUnited States
Website dutchmasters.com
Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1
1928 ad for the brand Dutch Masters cigar ad 1928.jpg
1928 ad for the brand

Dutch Masters is an American brand of natural wrapped cigars that has been sold since 1912. Its distinctive packaging features Rembrandt's 1662 painting Syndics of the Drapers' Guild . Dutch Masters cigars are currently[ when? ] manufactured and sold by Imperial Brands. They are machine-rolled cigars and come in two varieties: standard cigars and smaller cigarillos. [1] [2]

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History

G.H. Johnson Cigar Company was the original producer of the Dutch Masters cigar brand. The brand became a mainstay of the Consolidated Cigar Corporation, which merged the G.H. Johnson Cigar Company and six others in 1921. The Consolidated Cigar Corp. later became part of Altadis, formed in 1999 by a merger of the French and Spanish state tobacco monopolies. [3] Through its history the Dutch Masters cigar brand has become one of the most popular and profitable cigar brands in America.[ citation needed ]

Dutch Masters became well-known in the late 1950s and early 1960s for its sponsorship of television comedian Ernie Kovacs. He was appreciative of Dutch Masters' allowing him nearly complete creative freedom in the production of their sponsored shows and commercials. (Kovacs, a well known cigar smoker, never smoked Dutch Masters off camera, sticking almost exclusively to Havana cigars.) [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Only available in the US "Altadis Buys Control of JR Cigars" by David Savona, October 10, 2003 Archived April 10, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Merger To Create World's Largest Cigar Company" by David Savona, October 6, 1999 [ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Altadis S.A.," FundingUniverse.com/ Retrieved February 19, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Dutch Masters". Tobacco Stock. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
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