Last week, Oettinger Davidoff AG released a review for financial year 2015. as well as an outlook for its 2016 business. While the company said it expanded its global market position despite challenging marketing conditions, it reported a decline in total sales for the 2015 financial year. The report highlighted five themes: Double-digit growth thanks […]
As a part of the new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations over premium cigars is the requirement of Warning Labels on cigar packages and cigar advertisements. The requirement for Warning Labels goes into effect two years after the issuing of the regulations (August 3, 2018). While this may seem like a simple requirement, […]
For the second year in a row, we at Cigar Coop have delivered complete coverage of the annual Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series. Each year numerous manufacturers are given an opportunity to make exclusive cigars for the TAA. While some cigars are made available on a recurring basis, others have been made available as a […]
The 2015 Post Season Awards are complete on Cigar Coop. We recap the winners as well as summarize the previous year’s winners. Cigar of the Year Best Aged Cigar Person of the Year Factory of the Year (Large or Multi-Faceted) Factory of the Year (Small / Single) We also recapped our Performance Ratings based on […]
Our final performance category for 2015 is a new one. This one incorporates the viola-specific theme we adopted on Cigar Coop and Stogie Geeks (i.e. “Size Matters”). The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. This has been broken down […]
This year we introduce a new performance category – Country of Origin. The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. This has been broken down by brand for the past four years. Today we slice this data by Country of […]
Our 2015 Year in Review coverage continues with a look at how the various cigar brands did on Cigar Coop for 2014. This is a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. For 2015, a total of 247 (down from 257 in 2014) cigars were considered for this ranking. […]
Our Person of the Year Award is awarded to a person(s) in the cigar industry that has made a significant impact, for better or for worse. This could be over the course of a year, but we also reserve the right to look at this from a lifetime achievement perspective. For 2015, the recipient is […]
The 2015 Cigar Coop Factory of the Year Award for a Large/ Multi-Faceted Operation goes to Davidoff. When we setup the Factory of the Year Awards we realized it was not apples to apples when it comes to all premium hand-made factory operations. Therefore, we decided to split the award between a small / single operation and […]
For the fifth consecutive year, we provide the Cigar Coop selections for Best Aged Cigar. The purpose of this category is to look at some cigar lines that were released the previous year, and see the impacts of age on them. This is a unique category not often seen, but one we feel as important as […]
