Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Catalan wine merchant, was born in Sitges, Catalonia, ( Spain ) in 1814, and emigrated to Cuba in 1830.

Emilio Bacardí, Don Facundo's eldest son, was repeatedly imprisoned and was exiled from Cuba for having fought in the rebel army against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence.

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

In his account he described how “ on one side there was a wooden stage with two streamers – Hatuey beer and Bacardí rum – on each end and a Cuban flag in the middle.

Next to the stage was a bar, at which people crowded, ordering daiquiris and beer, all free .” A sign at the event read: Bacardí rum welcomes the author of The Old Man and the Sea.

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.

In September 1953, his relatively prosperous family ( he was the son of a Bacardí executive ) sent him to study business management at Columbia University in New York, to take him away from the political turmoil of the time.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

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 ).

In 1899 US General Leonard Wood appointed Emilio Bacardí Mayor of Santiago de Cuba.

The Bacardí family ( and hence the company ) maintained a fierce opposition to Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba in the 1960s.

Bacardi Limited is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda and has a 16-member board of directors led by the original founder's great-great grandson, Facundo L. Bacardí.

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.

In its 150 year history, Bacardí rum has won upwards of 400 awards for quality and product profile making it the world ’ s most awarded rum.

In his article The Old Man and the Daiquiri, Wayne Curtis tells us how Hemingway ’ s “ home bar also held a bottle of Bacardí rum .” Hemingway wrote in Islands in the Stream “… this frozen daiquirí, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots .”

* May 9 – Facundo Bacardí, Cuban rum manufacturer ( b. 1814 )

In Santiago, his brother Facundo M. Bacardí continued to manage the company along with Schueg, who began the company's international expansion by opening new bottling plants in Barcelona ( 1910 ) and New York City ( 1915 ).

Portuondo and other Bacardí family members initially supported the Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro and the broader M-26-7 movement: Bosch personally donated tens of thousands of dollars to the movement, and acted as an intermediary between the revolutionaries and the CIA to assuage the latter's concerns.

Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.

Emblems of gold medals and the Spanish Coat of Arms awarded during the formative years of the business appear on every bottle of Bacardí Rum.

Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

Bacardí Gold, Bacardí 8, and Bacardí Reserva Limitada were also awarded International High Quality Trophy awards at the 2010 Monde Selection ’ s World Quality Selections.

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