In 2018, Joya de Nicaragua will celebrate 50 years in business. While the company was has not announced specific plans around how they will commemorate that milestone, this year Joya still showcased a new product, a new packaging design, and a new sampler. Joya de Nicaraguan’s signature release was the Joya de Nicaragua Antaño Gran Reserva. Keep […]
White Hat Cigars is a distribution company headed up by industry veteran Spencer Drake. The company handles the distribution of the HR line of cigars. When Hiroshi Robaina and the La Corona factory parted way with Cubanacan Cigars, both Robaina and La Corona needed a distribution arm to keep the HR brand going. Drake had built a relationship with […]
One year ago at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, Altadis U.S.A. launched a special, limited edition cigar known as the Montecristo Artisan Series Batch 1. Given the name, it was safe to assume there would be a Batch 2. At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Altadis U.S.A delivered the follow-up with the Montcristo Artisan Series […]
While he retired from a day-to-day role at General Cigar Company over three years ago, Benji Menendez is still very much a part of the General Cigar family. At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, General Cigar Company held a private reception to honor Menendez for his 60+ years of service in the cigar industry. “Our […]
Whether it’s a classic motion picture or music album, many will say the follow-up or sequel has a tough act to follow after the original. However, when it comes to the follow-up to the follow-up (or sequel to the sequel), it is even a bigger hurdle to top the previous two installments. Not the case at Steve Saka’s Dunbarton Tobacco […]
Since last year’s IPCPR Trade Show, Grenada Nicaragua-based Mombacho Cigars SA has continued to make moves to strengthen itself in the market. This has included hiring Rob Rasmussen as its brand manager and naming Mo Maali, National Sales Manager. Maali is doing double-duty as he also serves as brand owner of Patina Cigars, who happens to produce […]
2017 has been a busy year for Santana Diaz at Pure Aroma Cigars, maker of the D’Crossier brand. Earlier this year, Diaz switched his distribution from Espinosa to handling it himself. He also has launched a series of new products, including shifting some of D’Crossier’s production from Costa Rica to the ABAM factory in the Dominican Republic. One of […]
As it has for the past seven trade shows, Camacho was a part of the Davidoff IPCPR booth. Camacho has been one of the big success stories under the Davidoff over the past four years. It’s a brand that has not only prided itself on the monikers “the bold standard” and “live loud”, but has also been one of innovation. 2017 […]
Ventura Cigar Company is the premium cigar division of Kretak International. Kretak has a huge distribution arm with its Phillips and King subsidiary, and has even made a statement in the cigar media landscape with its Tobacco Business publication. While it’s one piece in a larger puzzle, Ventura has done an excellent job bringing high-quality […]
At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Akhil Kapacee and Regius Cigars showcased the Regius Sun Grown. It’s a cigar that features a dark higher priming Sun Grown wrapper that is meant to be a fuller offering in the line. The Regius Sun Grown is a puro. Nicaraguan tobaccos for the binder and filler. The cigar is […]
