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The Perdomo Company
The history of the Perdomo Company is an interesting one. It begins in the early 1930s when Silvio Perdomo was raised in Havana and went to work as an apprentice with Cuesta Y Cia. From his stay there, he went on to work for Upmann and Partagas. It would be the things that he learned that he would end up passing down to his son, Nicholas Perdomo, who would in turn provide this same training to his son, Nick Junior. This process of course, was done in the old world style of cigar making and it has proven to be the best way to produce cigars.
Since that time, the family moved from Havana to the United States, and Nick Junior found that he was able to take the things he learned through his father and grandfather and turn them into a small business. Converting his garage to a homemade business, he began what was known as Nick’s Cigar Company. During the early stages of his business venture, he focused on keeping his other job as an air traffic controller and focused on the cigar company at night with his with his wife until things started to improve for his business.
While the first year remained modest for product, he quickly found that his business started to grow and by 1997 he had to expand the company he was running to help accommodate for the spike in sales he was getting. In fact, this proved to be a big year for Nick as he sold his first 1 million cigars. Based on today’s sales, that was still pretty small but at the time it was the foreshadowing needed for the Perdomo Company to start seeing the light of day. This would of course be just one of the many milestones that the company would experience over the years as they continued to add new products to their line and expanded their reach all across the world at the same time.
By April 1999, Perdomo was commissioned to create what would eventually become Serie D. No. 4. This led to a sudden expansion of the offerings that the future Perdomo Cigars Company would offer as well and things were going to get brighter. Of course, the company that commissioned him to do the work during this time ended up not moving forward due to financial difficulties and this resulted in Perdomo having the chance to use this technique for his future cigars.
When 2001 rolled around the company had started selling 10 million cigars and had a significant number of workers in Central America. These were of course all handmade cigars that were handled according to specifications that the company had created. This in turn allowed them to create a uniform set of cigars that were known for quality and excellence, qualities that really helped his company to be set apart from many of the others. That is combined with the fact that his cigars were still hand rolled and offered his customers a product that machines couldn’t mimic.
Today, the Perdomo Company remains a very effective company that offers some of the best cigars in the world. The focus remains on handcrafted cigars that have a unique flavor and the best tobacco around combined with some of the best prices around. This is of course why they have remained strong even through the recent recession as well.
This is of course just one of many cigar manufacturers that can be found in the world. However, the start up business that turned into a million Perdomo Cigars selling corporation should show you the quality and craftsmanship that has made this company so popular over the years as well. There is no doubt that they will continue to focus on the excellence that they delivered in the past and continue to grow and expand their impact in the tobacco industry at the same time.
