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{{short description|Spanish tobacco monopoly whose origins date back to 1636}}
{{for|the joint-stock multinational company|Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas}}
{{Other uses|Tabacalera (disambiguation)}}
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| name             = Tabacalera, S.A.
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| type             = [[S.A. (corporation)|Sociedad Anónima]]
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| fate             = Merged with [[SEITA]]
| predecessor      = {{ubl|Institución del Estanco de Tabaco|Compañía Arrendataria de Tabacos}}
| successor        = [[Altadis]]
| foundation       = {{Start date|1945|03}}
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| location_country = [[Spain]]
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'''Tabacalera''', formerly the '''Compañía Arrendataria de Tabacos''', was a Spanish [[tobacco]] [[monopoly]] whose origins date back to 1636, making it the oldest tobacco company in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History17.html |title=Tobacco Timeline: The Seventeenth Century--The Great Age of the Pipe |website=www.tobacco.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030403002207/http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History17.html |archive-date=2003-04-03}} </ref>

In 1999, the company merged with [[SEITA]] of [[France]] to form [[Altadis]], which was later purchased by [[Imperial Tobacco]]. Its [[brand]]s included [[Ducados (cigarette)|Ducados]] and [[Fortuna (cigarette)|Fortuna]].

Tabacalera owns 50% stake in Cuba's official cigar export operation Corporación Habanos. Since buying the stake 15 years ago, Tabacalera has played a key role in marketing and selling Cuban cigars in more than 150 countries around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/26197be6-110c-11e5-9bf8-00144feabdc0|title=Spain's Tabacalera set to take the cigar in US amid Cuba detente|last=Buck|first=Tobias|date=2015-06-15|website=www.ft.com|language=en-GB|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref>

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[[Category:Tobacco companies of Spain]]
[[Category:Companies based in Madrid]]
[[Category:Defunct manufacturing companies of Spain]]
[[Category:Former monopolies]]
[[Category:Companies established in 1636]]
[[Category:1636 establishments in Spain]]
[[Category:Spanish companies disestablished in 1999]]
[[Category:Imperial Brands]]


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