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Cigar Paradise in Nicaragua!

Cigar Weekly Contributng Editor (and District Sales Manager at Intel Corporation) Neil Noffsinger recently went on a tour of Perdomo’s facilities in Esteli, Nicaragua. He’s written a wonderful account of it on Cigar Weekly, which I encourage everyone to read in full.

Neil at the Perdomo Factory, Esteli, Nicaragua

Here’s some snippets:

“Nick Perdomo, Jr. decided many years ago that he wanted to be in control of his own company’s destiny, and the process of becoming vertically integrated therefore evolved as a core strategy of his plan. There is not enough space in this article to describe the specific details. Simply stated, from growing all of their own tobacco, to processing it all themselves, to having their own salesforce, to manufacturing their own boxes, the Perdomos truly are in command of their business. Believe it or not, they even make their own cellophane for the completed cigars! In Nick’s opinion this is the only way they can be absolutely certain about guaranteeing  quality and maintaining their unbelievable attention to detail – it truly is amazing.”

“Production material is actually traced down to the individual leaf! At the start of each day, the teams are given enough filler, binder and wrapper leaves to roll 300 cigars, and that is the maximum number that they are allowed to produce. Again, this is a quality control decision – it is felt that if the teams produce more than this amount, their attention to detail and quality might be compromised. It is a conscious effort not to sacrifice quality for quantity, and this attentiveness is certainly evident in the finished product.”

“We then met Emilio, who supervises the rollers. Emilio demonstrated the duties of the bunchers and the rollers, explaining the exact details of each step. The completed cigars are then draw tested to ensure they meet specifications, and thus do not exhibit either too loose or too tight of a draw. Let me repeat… Every individual stick is draw tested! Perdomo shipped over 12 million cigars in 2010, so just imagine the scope of that effort! At every single phase of the entire process, there are specific checks for quality and assurance that everything is being done as prescribed. In fact, at some points, there are multiple checks, and several supervisors and managers must ‘sign off’ before the product continues on to the next station.”

Related posts:

  1. Perdomo Factory Tour, Esteli Nicaragua – Day Two!
  2. Nick Perdomo in Esteli Nicaragua
  3. Quality Control at the Perdomo Factory
  4. Perdomo Factory Tour, Esteli Nicaragua – Day One!
  5. PerdomoVision Ep7 – The Making of a Perdomo Cigar (part one)

Posted on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 10:52 am. Filed under: Blog, Perdomo Esteli RSS 2.0 feed.

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