With the COVID-19 Coronavirus putting fear into the U.S. market more than any other disease many of us have seen in our lifetime, we have started to see everyday life and business affected. Events are getting cancelled, restrictions are emerging on business travel, and even toilet paper shortages have emerged. In the middle of all […]
Earlier this month came a proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2021 by U.S. President Donald Trump. In that budget was a proposal where oversight of tobacco and alternative tobacco products would be moving out of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) into its own agency still under the U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
The bad news – I won’t be filing a Day Three Post-Game report from ProCigar 2020. Due to other commitments, I had to leave ProCigar a day early. This was planned in advance, and I couldn’t be more disappointed. My intent is usually to cover an event from start to finish. In the case of […]
As I mentioned in my pre game report, ProCigar is a festival and not a trade show, Cigar Coop has covered trade shows for the past decade and focused on product coverage. ProCigar is a festival and I knew coming in it would be different. About 12 hours into my stay in the Dominican Republic, […]
For the first time in our near ten years of existence, Cigar Coop is attending ProCigar 2020! Actually, this author is attending a portion of the event and for the most part coming in somewhere in the middle of this.. ProCigar is an organization of cigar manufacturers based in the Dominican Republic. Each year they […]
The Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) 2020 Trade Show took place in Las Vegas Nevada from January 29 to January 31 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Las Vegas Convention Center. TPE has positioned itself as the first major tobacco/vape/alternative Trade Show of the calendar year. Many folks are familiar with the Premium Cigar Association (PCA)’s […]
If you’re waiting for a detailed analysis of Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) 20, I’ll address that in a full “Post Game Report” in the upcoming days. For day three, my focus was primarily on one thing – foot traffic on the premium cigar side of the house. I’m defining foot traffic as people who were […]
As I completed day two of the Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) 2020, there are two words that came to mind – “everybody’s happy”. Speaking from the premium cigar side, there was a positive energy that I saw from all facets of the trade show – manufacturers, brand owners, retailers, and medias. There was almost no […]
If there were questions on whether or not Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) 2020 could put on a competitive trade show for the premium cigar industry, they were answered rather quickly. The doubts that I had were quickly put to rest within the first hour. No doubt, TPE 2020 is the start of something good for […]
This week Cigar Coop will be bringing you coverage from the Tobacco Plus Expo in Las Vegas. It’s the first trade show of 2020 for the premium cigar industry. This will be Cigar Coop’s first year covering TPE. We’ll break down what to expect and ponder some questions going into the show. General Information What […]
