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 […]
The Decade of 2010-19 was certainly a dynamic one for the cigar industry. Outside the world of tobacco, the industry’s battle in the U.S. against the federal government on regulations was front and center. It would have been easy to pick that as the story of the decade, but in terms of a selection here, […]
The Cigar of the Year Countdown is a quantitative analysis of the best cigars of 2019. The Countdown is built strictly on merit and does not factor in price. A few years ago, I started to take a closer look and see how this list would look if price were to be factored in. The […]
The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. It is meant to serve as a barometer in terms of how the cigars were assessed. Today we slice this data by cigar brand, a category we have ranked since 2012. This […]
The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. It is meant to serve as a barometer in terms of how the cigars were assessed. Today we slice this data by Vitola – a new category introduced for 2015. This is […]
The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. It is meant to serve as a barometer in terms of how the cigars were assessed. Today we slice this data by Country of Origin – a category introduced for 2015. This […]
