William Cooper is a Owner of Indian Trail Media LLC, and the founder of the Cigar Coop brand, the cigar industry's true 365 a year periodical. He is also the host of the Cigar Coop Prime Time Show, Cigar Coop Prime Time Special Edition, and Prime Time Jukebox.
“I got this package in the mail from (insert company or person here)” – this might be the only time you ever see these words start out an article on this web-site. On many online cigar media sites that review cigars, for some reason there is this need to put in these words or some […]
Over the past week, a new limited edition cigar set has been showing up at retailers by General Cigar’s La Gloria Cubana brand called Tres Puros. La Gloria Cubana Tres Puros is a set of 36 cigars made from the major manufacturing countries outside of Cuba – Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. General Cigar […]
The Cigar Industry Report is a one stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop and Stogie Geeks. It is a combination of our news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. We will also recap what happened on our Stogie Geeks show. Finally, each week we […]
Davidoff of Geneva – since 1911 Tampa Store (Artist Rendering) Image Credit: Oettinger Davidoff AG Davidoff of Geneva USA will open a flagship store in its home metropolitan area. Today the company announced it will a “Davidoff of Geneva – since 1911” store in the City of Tampa by the end of 2015. The store […]
Current Camacho Factory (Photo Credit Oettinger Davidoff / Camacho Cigars) Oettinger Davidoff AG made several big announcements today in terms of its operations in Central America. The comany has announced it will build a new factory in Honduras that will be used for its Camacho and other Honduran brand production. The company also announced the […]
Assessment Updates will be posted on this web-site to: 1) Assess “pre-review” cigars that were not given a rating or score (typically pre-release cigars); 2) Provide numeric ratings to cigars previously assessed prior to the implementation of the numeric scoring system; 3) Provide a re-assessment and re-score of a previously assessed/score cigars. Today, we re-assess […]
Smoking in the State of Nebraska’s Cigar Bars has been restored. Newly elected Governor Pete Ricketts signed into law Legislative Bill 118. Introduced by State Senator Tyson Larson, this piece of legislation continues to allow cigar bars to allow smoking under an exemption of the statewide indoor smoking ban. This bill was a response to […]
Assessment Updates will be posted on this web-site to: 1) Assess “pre-review” cigars that were not given a rating or score (typically pre-release cigars); 2) Provide numeric ratings to cigars previously assessed prior to the implementation of the numeric scoring system; 3) Provide a re-assessment and re-score of a previously assessed/score cigars. Today, we provide […]
Ortega Premium Cigars and El Primer Mundo Cigars have announced the list of retailers that will carry their collaborative project called Larceny. A list of 42 retailers have been selected and are being referred as “The Larcenists”. Two weeks ago, the Larceny project was announced. The concept behind this project is that each brand owner […]
Recently, the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) has posted their schedule for the 83rd Annual Trade Show and Convention being held in New Orleans, Louisiana from July 17-21, 2015. As a part of the agenda, an event called “IPCPR Cigar Bash” has been listed on the final evening of the convention. While details […]