Cuban News Agency

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The facility’s director Abel Exposito Diaz told the press the increase in
sales by more than $300,000, compared to 2010, is the result of the joint
efforts and devotedness of the store’s staff.

Exposito Diaz said the sum is a modest contribution to the revitalization
of the Cuban economy at times when the country is striving to stimulate
hard currency income and break the economic blockade imposed by the U.S.
for more than five decades now.

Through selling the worldwide known Cuban cigars and with the celebration
twice a year of the Friends of Partagas international meeting, the Casa de
Habanos Partagas has had more than 47 million dollars in income since it
was founded in 1991.

According to Exposito Diaz, since the first Friends of Partagas reunion
down to the present, the facility has donated more than $328,000  to the
Cuban Ministry of Health, most of which has been allocated for cancer
research programs.

Situated in Old Havana, in the back of the National Capitol, the store has
been visited by personalities of the worlds of culture, politics and
business, among them: Fidel Castro, who visited the House in 2002
accompanied by U.S. film director Steven Spielberg; Jack Nicholson, Gerard
Depardieu, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas and Whoopi Goldberg, just to
mention a few.