Apparently struck by the economic crisis in Europe, revenues of Habanos S.A. dropped 10.3 percent in 2011, despite a 4-percent rise in sales of Cuban luxury cigars outside the European Union last year, Imperial Tobacco Ltd. said in its 2011 annual report.
The company had reported a 2-percent rise of Cuban luxury cigar sales for the six months ended March 31, 2011.
Even so, the Corporación Habanos S.A. joint venture, of which UK-based Imperial Tobacco holds half, doubled its after-tax profits last year.
With the Saints now heartbreakingly out of the playoffs, The Rev, like all New Orleanians, is turning his attention to the great mind eraser known as Carnival Time. The Mardi Gras Season, probably New Orleans' most famous celebration, is technically the time between the Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, culminating in Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday"), where we all prepare for the Lenten Season of abstinence and penance by sinfully partying like rock stars to get the last taste of our vices.
The Mardi Gras Season is also famous locally for the 
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