Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Company came into the IPCPR with several new releases – and these releases continued to show company owner Oscar Valladares as a rising star in the cigar industry. One thing that Valladares has been expanding is his farming operation – which has grown considerably. With his own distribution warehouse, sales and […]
IPCPR 2019 Post Game Report: Day Four
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Imagine a world of professional football where the Super Bowl® has had declining attendance and an announcement was made that next year, the name of the game was being changed to “Professional Football League Championship.” Basically, that is what Day Four of the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show felt like. Based on the foot traffic I […]
IPCPR 2019 Post Game Report: Day Three
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There is no way to sugar coat this. The decision to hold IPCPR Trade Show a few days before July 4th was nothing short of a disaster. There was a time when I didn’t think it was worth discussing attendance numbers, but attendance has emerged as a huge story. Day Three of the IPCPR Trade […]
Feature Story: Tales from a Decade of IPCPR – 2012
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For the tenth consecutive year, the Cigar Coop brand will be providing coverage of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Association Trade Show and Convention. We are proud to be a part of a very small group of media to say that. Today we continue our ten-part series where we look back our […]
Feature Story: Tales from a Decade of IPCPR – 2011
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For the tenth consecutive year, the Cigar Coop brand will be providing coverage of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Association Trade Show and Convention. We are proud to be a part of a very small group of media to say that. Today we continue our ten-part series where we look back our […]
IPCPR 2019 Post Game Report: Day Two
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The talk of the lower attendance of 2019 and chatter about CigarCon 2020 continued into Day Two. For the most part, my feel was that foot traffic at the booths was the same as the day before. However Friday’s complacency about the CigarCon announcement took a very different turn on Day Two of a […]
Feature Story: Tales from a Decade of IPCPR – 2010
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For the tenth consecutive year, the Cigar Coop brand will be providing coverage of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Association Trade Show and Convention. We are proud to be a part of a very small group of media to say that. Today we begin a ten part series where we look back our experiences at […]
Feature Story: Why Aganorsa Leaf will be “The Company” of the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show
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Each year before the annual IPCPR Trade Show., there are a large number of product announcements that come before the IPCPR Trade Show. In what will now become an annual tradition on Cigar Coop, we select one company that we feel is poised to have a big impact at the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show. This […]
2019 IPCPR Pre-Game Report Part 2: The Trends to Watch
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For the tenth consecutive year, the Cigar Coop brand will be providing coverage of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Association Trade Show and Convention. We are proud to be a part of a very small group of media to say that. Our four-part series for the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show has you covered whether you […]
Feature Story: Things the PCA Needs to Do to Sell a Consumer Event to the Industry
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This past week, a firestorm emerged in the cigar industry following information that came out of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Association’s plans to rebrand itself as the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) and subsequent plans to add a consumer component to the Trade Show reportedly called CigarCon. The issue of a consumer component […]