2018 was both an impressive IPCPR Trade Show and year for Royal Agio Cigars. In 2017, Royal Agio Cigars had launched its U.S. distribution company with the intent on expanding its handmade premium cigar business. The 2018 Trade Show was quite impressive for Royal Agio Cigars. They came out with five excellent premium handmade blends, […]
IndianHead Cigars, the company owned by Jochy Blanco and makers of the La Galera brand of cigars, showcased their fourth cigar in 2019. For the past two years, the company has focused mostly on line extensions. This year, Blanco would bring his first major release in three years with the La Galera. La Galera is […]
While this was the 10th IPCPR Trade Show for Cigar Coop, it was also the 10th IPCPR Trade Show for Bill Paley and La Palina Cigars since he resurrected his family’s brand name. It’s been interesting to watch La Palina’s evolution over these past ten years. Last year I noted that when La Palina launched […]
NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone returned to the IPCPR for the second year in a row. Malone had been at the 2018 IPCPR announcing his cigar and company, Barrel Aged by Karl Malone. However there were delays in delivering the cigar to market, and going into the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show it still had […]
2019 was the third IPCPR for Kevin Schweitzer and Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group. Last year the company was a part of American Caribbean Cigars booth, but this year Schweitzer was back in his own booth. Since Schweitzer acquired Vintage Rockefeller Cigar Group in 2017, he has focused on the company’s Nicaraguan blends. While the Nicaraguan blends were still […]
The year 2019 is a big one for La Flor Dominicana. It marks 25 years since Litto and Ines Gomez first entered the cigar business. When Litto and Ines entered the industry, they originally founded a company called Los Libertadores. That company would eventually become La Flor Dominicana. As a result, this year the theme […]
The year 2019 marked the fourth IPCPR Trade Show for Bryan Mussard and Cattle Baron Cigars. Mussard is a well-known figure in the cattle industry who served as the President of the Montana Stockgrowers Association. Back in 2016, he decided to venture into the cigar business with his own line of cigars. To produce his […]
2019 would mark the return to the IPCPR Trade Show for Sebastien Decoppet and Cavalier Genève Cigars. After exhibiting at the IPCPR Trade Show the previous two years, Cavalier Genève took 2018 off. At the time, Decoppet was reorganizing his U.S. distribution forming a new company Cavalier Premium Cigars USA LLC. It’s known in the […]
For the fifth year in a row, we are providing a full “Post-Game Report” assessing the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Convention and Trade Show. In this report, we talk more about the show itself and give our thoughts on the impacts to the cigar industry. This year we once again did four daily […]
For the past few years, Reiner Lorenzo and HVC Cigars had been one of the best-kept secrets in the cigar industry. However, following the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, the secret seemed to get out and HVC began to make much more of a national presence. Coming into the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Lorenzo and HVC […]
