The Arnold André company - The Cigar Company was founded in 1817 and is now Germany's biggest producer of cigars and second biggest producer of cigarillos.

Smokers would now find it impossible to imagine life without brands like Handelsgold, Tropenschatz and Vasco da Gama.

A successful combination of tradition and innovation can be seen particularly in the classic Clubmaster cigarillo range and the fashionable Independence brand, with which the Arnold André company has given the German cigar and cigarillo market a new lease of life in recent years.