(CN) - A Cuban government-owned tobacco company won its 12-year legal battle to stop a U.S. cigar producer from using the Cohiba name and trademark in the United States. A federal judge in Manhattan ...

Havana is the destination of the moment. In the past couple of months, Barack Obama, the Rolling Stones and even the Kardashians have made pilgrimages to the Cuban capital—along with Karl Lagerfeld ...

It is a warm and slightly sticky late November afternoon inside the early-20th-century mansion that houses the global headquarters of Habanos SA, the body that markets Havana cigars. Fierce sunlight ...

Cohiba cigars made in the Dominican Republic sit on display in a humidor at Swedish Match North America’s headquarters in Richmond, Va. Swedish Match owns General Cigar Co., which has sold a version ...

One of the iconic images of Cuba is that of former leader Fidel Castro – all green fatigues and thick, greying beard – puffing on his favorite cigar, a Cohiba Corona Especial. The Cuban Cohiba – along ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link China has overtaken Spain to become the world's biggest market for pricey Cuban cigars, according to Habanos, Cuba's state-owned cigar company.

The Cohiba cigar was first rolled in Cuba in 1966. The creation of the tobacco blend that would become known as Cohiba is attributed to two different men. Popular myth has it that Fidel Castro learned ...

The legal dispute dates back to 1997, when Cuba’s state-owned company attempted to register its Cohiba mark but was turned away because of General Cigar Company’s registration. The court found ...

Otto von Bismarck considered them an essential diplomatic aid and Evelyn Waugh said: "The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the fragrant smoke of a Havana ...