The Bacardi Building ( Havana ) | Bacardi Building in Havana, Cuba.

In 1930 Schueg opened the art deco Bacardi building in Havana and the third generation of the Bacardí family was entering the business.

Havana Club was not a Bacardi brand, though Bacardi later bought the brand from the original owners, the Arechabala family, who had it seized from them by the Revolutionary Government without compensation.

Bacardi continues to fight a war in the courts attempting to legalize their own Havana Club trademark outside of the United States.

The Bacardi legacy lives on in Santiago and Havana through its grand buildings and its historic significance.

The Bacardi Building in Old Havana is regarded as one of the finest art deco buildings in Latin America.

Bacardi Bowl was a college football bowl game played seven times in Havana, Cuba at La Tropical Stadium.

The Tigers ' first bowl appearance was in 1937 in the sixth Bacardi Bowl played in Havana, Cuba.

It was the first bowl appearance for Kentucky and the second for Villanova, which in 1936 tied Auburn 7-7 in the Bacardi Bowl in Havana, Cuba.

In Europe and Canada, alcopops tend to be pre-mixed spirits, including vodka ( e. g. Smirnoff Ice ) or rum ( e. g. Bacardi Breezer ).

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

Its brand portfolio comprises more than 200 brands and labels, including the eponymous Bacardi rum.

Don Facundo began attempting to " tame " rum by isolating a proprietary strain of yeast still used in Bacardi production today.

This yeast gives Bacardi rum its unique flavor profile.

After the Cuban War of Independence and the US occupation of Cuba, " The Original Cuba Libre " and the Daiquiri were both born with Bacardi rum.

Facundito Bacardí was known to have invited US-Americans ( still subject to Prohibition ) to " Come to Cuba and bathe in Bacardi rum.

Bacardi's transition into an international brand was due mostly to Schueg's " business genius "; Schueg " branded Cuba as the home of rum, and Bacardi as the king of rums " and expanded overseas, first to Mexico ( 1931 ), then to Puerto Rico ( 1936 ), under the brand name Ron Bacardi.

Bacardi has faced criticism and legal problems for supposedly attempting to falsely convince consumers they were purchasing rum made in Cuba rather than just marking its heritage.

Bacardi adverts in Spain, since 1966, had described a popular combination of rum and Coke as " rum and coke ".

Bacardi Limited has made several acquisitions to diversify away from the eponymous Bacardí rum brand.

Sergio Danguillecourt, a member of the board of directors of Bacardi Ltd and a great-great-grandson of the rum company's founder Don Facund Bacardí i Massó, and his wife Jacqueline Kriz Danguillecourt were on board.

Fausto Rodriguez, a young messenger, later recalled that Captain Russell came in and ordered Bacardi ( Gold ) rum and Coca-Cola on ice with a wedge of lime.

The Bacardi rum and Coke was an instant hit.

The earliest known reference to a drink specifically called a piña colada is from TRAVEL magazine, December 1922: " But best of all is a piña colada, the juice of a perfectly ripe pineapple — a delicious drink in itself — rapidly shaken up with ice, sugar, lime and Bacardi rum in delicate proportions.

In 1814 Facundo Bacardí, founder of the international rum brand Bacardi, was born in Sitges before emigrating to Cuba where he set up his company.

* Cataño: the site where Bacardi has the world's largest rum distillery

The Bacardi Distillery also offers tours of its facilities to visitors that want to see and learn about the rum manufacturing industry in the island and the Caribbean.

Bacardi, one of the largest rum manufacturers of the world, has a distillery in Cataño.

In recent years, Cruzan Rum, along with Bacardi from Puerto Rico and Gosling's from Bermuda, has contributed to the resurgence of " single barrel ," super-premium rum.

She doesn't realize that the drink contains Bacardi rum, and she innocently drinks multiple glasses, becoming progressively tipsier.

Two or three ounces of Bacardi rum completed the mixture.

Founded on 4 February 1862, and family-owned for the past seven generations, Bacardi now employs nearly 6, 000 people, manufactures its brands at 27 facilities in 16 markets on four continents, with sales in more than 150 countries.

In 1912 Emilio Bacardi travelled to Egypt where he purchased a mummy for the future Emilio Bacardí Moreau Municipal Museum in Santiago de Cuba ,( mummy still on display ).

Ospina describes how the Bacardi family and Company left Cuba after the Castro regime confiscated the Company ’ s Cuban assets on 15 October 1960 ; in particular, in nationalizing and banning all private property on the island as well as all bank accounts.

Embittered Bacardi helmsman José Pepín Bosch bought a surplus B-26 bomber with the hopes of bombing Cuban oil refineries ( the bold plan was foiled when a picture of the bomber appeared on the front page of The New York Times ).

In 1999 Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardi, drafted section 211 of the 1999 Omnibus appropriations act, a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act.

The Bacardi building in Midtown Miami on Biscayne Boulevard served as the USA headquarters of Bacardi.

Bacardi vacated its former headquarter buildings on Biscayne Boulevard in Midtown Miami.

Bacardi had offered to give the township $ 5, 000 for recreation projects in exchange for a sign placed on U. S. Route 40 commemorating the new name.

However, on 27 September 2006 the firm said it had received a takeover offer from Bacardi Ltd at 77 cents per share, valuing the company at NZ $ 138 million.

Bacardi at the Park is open from 11 AM on days when the Sox have home games.

In Billy Connolly's " Casual Vomit " Sketch, found on The Best Comedy Album Ever, he suggests Bacardi and Tizer as the ingredients for an unpleasant drink

While on the Bacardi Express tour in Australia, Findlay said it will be called Black Light and " is going to be the darker side of Groove Armada, which is finally coming out after 12 years.

However, Bacardi 151 has multiple warnings on the label of the bottle stating that it should not be ignited or exposed to an open flame.

In 2003, Star Industries sued Bacardi and Anheuser-Busch over the use of a circular " O " on Bacardi's " Bacardi O " alcopop.