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.
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]
CigarClub.com has named premium cigar industry veteran Shanda Lee its new Chief Marketing Officer. Lee has over 25 years experience in marketing. She is best known for her time at J.C. Newman Cigar Company, where she was a Vice President of Marketing. Earlier this year, she had a brief stint as the Director of Marketing […]
Providencia Cigars has announced its fifth regular production line, La Misión. It’s a line that is being released in a single vitola – a 7 1/2 x 38 lancero. The blend features a dark Honduran Habano wrapper over an Indonesian binder, and a mix of Honduran and Nicaraguan tobacco. The Honduran tobaccos for the blend […]
At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, one of the revelations was the launch of Jeremy Jack Cigars. Tonight on Episode 70 of Prime Time, we welcome the founder of Jeremy Jack Cigars, Brady Hayek. We will talk about Brady’s journey in the cigar industry. In our Debonaire Ideal we will talk more about Arsenio Ramos, […]
At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, one of the revelations was the launch of Jeremy Jack Cigars. Tonight on Episode 70 of Prime Time, we welcome the founder of Jeremy Jack Cigars, Brady Hayek. We will talk about Brady’s journey in the cigar industry. In our Debonaire Ideal we will talk more about Arsenio Ramos, […]
Michael’s Tobacco will be the exclusive home to a special limited edition offering of PDR Cigars’ Flores y Rodriguez Connecticut Valley Reserve Broadleaf Maduro. The limited edition Michael’s Exclusive will be a 6 x 60 double perfecto and will be available starting on October 15th, 2018 at both the Euless and Keller Texas locations. […]
Mombacho Cigars has officially unveiled details on its long-awaited Casa Favilli line, a cigar named for the company’s factory in Grenada, Nicaragua. More importantly, it’s one that is quite unique in that it utilizes a Nicaraguan Broadleaf wrapper. On Prime Time Special Edition #24 back on February 28, 2018, company President Claudio Sgroi discussed the […]
Cigars International, the retail giant owned by Scandinavian Tobacco Group, has opened its fourth U.S. store, and its first outside the U.S. The store is located just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in the Grandscape development of the city of The Colony. “Given that the handmade cigar category was built on the kinds of personal interactions that can […]
n 2008, Tatuaje Cigars’ owner Pete Johnson introduced a cigar known as “The Frank”, the first installment of what would become one of the most iconic limited edition series the cigar industry has ever seen – the Tatuaje Monsters Series. Tonight on Special Edition, we take a look at the last decade of this series. […]
It’s a rare occasion when two growers and factory owners team up to collaborate on a cigar, but that’s exactly what AJ Fernandez and Jochy Blanco have done for the San Lotano Dominicano – a new addition under AJ Fernandez’s San Lotano line. The cigar combines Nicaraguan tobaccos grown on Fernandez’s farms and Dominican tobacco […]