Imperial Brands PLC has announced it is selling its worldwide premium cigar business. The move comes almost one year since the company first announced plans for divestiture opportunities. Imperial Brands premium cigar business includes brands of Tabacalera Premium Cigars, Altadis U.S.A., JR Cigars, Casa de Montecristo retail operations, Santa Clara Cigars, and Imperial’s 50% stake […]
Jas Sum Kral (JSK) Cigars has announced it has started shipping its Tyrannical Buc Maduro release to retailers. Tyrannical Buc is being positioned as a bolder offering in the JSK portfolio. The name “Buc” is also one that brand owner Riste Ristevski has been associated with as he has been known as “Riste Buc”. The Tyrannical […]
United Cigar’s La Gianna Havana brand has received a packaging upgrade. The new packaging is coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the brand. The company says the new packaging is now shipping nationwide. La Gianna Havana was originally released in 1994. At the time, David Garofalo, owner of Two Guys Smoke Shop in New Hampshire […]
S&M Brands, the cigarette company owned by the Bailey family, has been sold. The Baileys are best known to the cigar industry as the owners of Cornelius & Anthony. While the Baileys have exited the cigarette brand business, they will remain the sole owners of Cornelius & Anthony, and will also keep their tobacco-growing and […]
Royal Agio Cigars’ San Pedro de Macorís Nicaragua and the San Pedro de Macorís Sun Grown, the third and fourth installments under its San Pedro de Macorís, are now heading to retailers. The two new additions made their debut at the 2019 Tobacco Products Expo (TPE) in Las Vegas this past February. San Pedro de Macorís Nicaragua […]
On April 27, ZT Cigars will be holding its 2019 edition of its Smoklahoma event in Oklahoma City. At the event, Crux Cigars will re-re-release its Smoklahoma Corona Gorda collection. This is a collection that made its debut at the 2017 Smoklahoma event that is a ten-count box of Crux Cigar blends in a Corona […]
Next month Alec Bradley will have a global release of the Alec Bradley Project 40 line. It’s a cigar that is not only a value-priced line, but one that is a change of pace cigar for Alec Bradley. Project 40 was conceived by Alec Bradley founder Alan Rubin. According to Alec Bradley, “Project 40 is […]
This summer, Aganorsa Leaf will debut a maduro offering under its Aganorsa Leaf Signature line. While Aganorsa Leaf has done madras before, this will mark the first time it is using one one of its Agrnorsa farm corojo leaves as a maduro wrapper for one of its releases. The Aganorsa Leaf Signature incorporates tobaccos found […]
Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina met with leaders of the premium cigar industry in his country. The agenda of the meeting was to make him aware of the concerns and challenges resulting from regulations being implemented in the United States by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting was held in the Private […]
Altadis U.S.A. has announced the next installment under its Montecristo Espada line, the Montecristo Espada Oscuro. The new release is slated to hit retail shelves in May. It was back in 2014 when the Montecristo Espada first was introduced. Produced at the Plasencia factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, it not only marked the first time a Montecristo […]
