Product type | Cigar |
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Owner | Imperial Brands |
Produced by | Altadis USA |
Country | United States |
Introduced | 1840s |
Markets | United States |
Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1 |
Henry Clay is an American brand of cigars named after the early American politician Henry Clay.[1] The cigars are currently manufactured in the Dominican Republic.[2] The brand is currently owned by the Spanish company Altadis, a subsidiary of Imperial Brands.
Henry Clay was founded in the 1840s by a Spanish immigrant to Cuba, Julián Álvarez Granda.[3] The brand was nationalized by Fidel Castro's government following the Cuban Revolution, and manufacturing was severely reduced throughout the 1960s.[4]
The cigar's American Trademark was owned by the Henry Clay and Bock & Co. Ltd. located in Trenton, New Jersey. Henry Clay and Bock & Co. Ltd. became a component of the Tobacco Trust that, along with other trusts, was an object of the antitrust legislation of the United States.[5]
By 1986, Henry Clay's American trademark was owned by Consolidated Cigar Corpation, which started producing non-Cuban Henry Clays. The Consolidated Cigar Corporation was eventually purchased by Altadis.[6]