La Corona
A large Havana rolling house in the Cerro district, converted from a cigarette plant around 2000 and carrying a pre-revolutionary factory name.
The current La Corona is a modern conversion rather than a nineteenth-century survival. The building on Avenida 20 de Mayo in Cerro was a cigarette factory and was rebuilt around 2000 to take handmade cigar production, inheriting a name that had belonged to one of Havana's largest pre-revolutionary houses. Officially it carries the name Miguel Fernandez Roig. The name has therefore been transferred rather than continuously held.
It is among the biggest of the Havana operations, reported to employ around seven hundred and fifty people including roughly three hundred rollers. The brands assigned to it are substantial: Hoyo de Monterrey, Punch, San Cristobal de la Habana, Por Larranaga, Cuaba and Flor de Cano, along with modules of Montecristo and a steady share of regional editions. That makes it one of the highest-volume rolling operations in Havana.
Because Cuban brand production is allocated by the state rather than owned by the brands, assignments shift, and La Corona has absorbed work from houses taken out of service. For readers tracking box codes, it is one of the few Havana factories whose modern layout was purpose-designed rather than adapted from a colonial building. Its output covers several of the marcas most widely available in European markets.