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Havana Club is a brand of rum created in Cuba in 1934. Originally produced in Cárdenas, Cuba, by family-owned José Arechabala S.A. , the brand was nationalized after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. In 1993, French-owned Pernod Ricard and the government of Cuba created a state-run 50:50 joint venture called Corporación Cuba Ron.
José Arechabala S.A. launched Havana Club rum in 1934, [18] months after Prohibition ended in the United States in December 1933, and continued its production until the company was nationalized by the Cuban revolution on 31 December 1959. [1] [2] [10]
This symbol appeared on the labels of all Arechabala products (including the original Havana Club bottles) from the foundation of the distillery and adorned the barrels on the solera. From 1943, there was a change in the Havana Club image, [ 31 ] as the label became blue and the emblem a combination in two panels of the Biscay coat of arms and ...
The Havana Yacht Club was founded and funded by Joseph White-Todd in 1885. [1] The Havana Yacht Club was located near the coastline of the La Concha Beach in Marianao on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. [2] The social club organized regattas and other nautical events. [3]
The act was aimed primarily at the Havana Club brand in the US. The brand was created by the José Arechabala S.A. and nationalised without compensation in the Cuban revolution, the Arechabala family left Cuba and stopped producing rum. They, therefore, allowed the US trademark registration for "Havana Club" to lapse in 1973.
In 1911, the early foundation of the complex was established in the Miramar suburb of Playa, Havana, Cuba.. The main clubhouse of the complex was developed in the mid-to-late 1920s and established as the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club by American hotelier John Bowman. [1]
Now Sherrer and Llampalla are widening their scope with the new Social 27 Supper Club, which they call their “love letter” to the Cuba of the 1940s and 1950s, where supper clubs were all the rage.
In 1948, Alfonso Gomez-Mena of Havana's Miramar Yacht Club won the 10th annual 184-mile Miami-to-Nassau ocean race. [6]In 1949, Manuel Racso of Havana's Miramar Yacht Club set the record for the St. Petersburg-to-Havana yacht race with his Cuban schooner, Belletrix, finishing in 35 hours. [7]