The 2014 IPCPR Trade Show is now history. Once again, we have brought you unprecedented coverage pre-show, at the show, and post show. Throughout that coverage you will see product-centric coverage of what to expect from the manufacturers. In this month’s column, I briefly reflect a little more on the show itself. First off, […]
We are now full steam ahead with our IPCPR coverage leading up to this year’s trade show in Las Vegas being held from July 19 – 23. Last month we outlined our approach that consists of Pre-Show Coverage, Show Floor Coverage, and Post Show Coverage. In reality, for us, this is more like IPCPR Season. […]
As many know, the FDA has moved forward and has made proposed regulations to the premium cigar industry in their Deeming Document. The FDA is now soliciting public comment to these regulations. This past month, both the Cigar Rights of America (CRA) and International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) has provided guidance on […]
As the Cigar Coop – Stogie Geeks partnership begins to evolve, one comment I often hear is “there are too many cigar review sites.” Whether that is true or not I feel is a subjective answer, but it got me thinking in terms of what the CCSG value proposition is and what do we bring […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had several conversations with various retailers in the cigar industry. The topic revolved around the effort it takes to put on our IPCPR Trade Show coverage. With over 200 articles last year, nobody delivered product coverage from the IPCPR like we did. It was a large amount of resources […]
Over the past several months, I’ve attended my share of cigar events. At each event, there is one question that is asked…. “are you going to blog about this event?” I’ll give the answer up-front, and then explain the reasons. Taking our sponsors out of the equation, 90 percent of the time the answer is “No”. […]
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Another Cigar of the Year countdown is the annuls of Cigar Coop, and now Stogie Geeks history. We are planning to do some more discussion as well as release our Stogie Geeks staff picks on our January 9th show. . As we said with our vision, the goal of the Epic Encounters 2013 Cigar of the Year […]
As is the case, we kick off our cigar year with a month long retrospective of the best cigars smoked of the year. This is what has been termed “Epic Encounters”. It is part of our extensive year in review coverage. First up, we have merged with Stogie Geeks, but this is my personal list. […]
On Tuesday October 30th, a piece of anti-tobacco legislation was passed by the New York City Council. It is now heading to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s desk where he has indicated he will sign this legislation into law. This included raising the age to purchase tobacco products to 21 and the elimination of coupons and promotional […]
