This week the Prime Time Show begins the first of three weeks of “Pre-Game” coverage leading up to the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show with a Media Panel Show. It’s our sixth Media Panel Show and we will have the whole Prime Time Team onboard plus Seth Geise, Jiunn Liu, and John McTavish of Developing Palates. […]
This week is our 100th installment of these (mostly) monthly editorials and musings. 100 is also significant as we will also see our 100th Episode of the Prime Time Podcast, our cigar industry-centric podcast. By the end of the month, the IPCPR Trade Show will open in Las Vegas and for the tenth consecutive year, Cigar […]
The International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) announced a date change for its 2020 Convention & Trade Show. The new dates will be scheduled for July 10 through July 14, 2020. Last year the IPCPR Trade Show announced that the 2019 and 2020 Trade Shows were moving back to the Sands Convention Center. While […]
A major company will be passing on this year’s IPCPR Trade Show and Convention. Today, in an open letter from Villiger Cigars North America President Rene Castañeda, he announced his company would not be attending this year’s trade show. In the letter, Castañeda explains his company will direct its efforts toward the Tobacco Products Expo (TPE) […]
The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers’ Association (IPCPR) has named Joshua Habursky its new director of federal government affairs. Harbursky succeeds Daniel Trope who departed the organization earlier this year. Most recently Harbusky served as the Assistant Vice President of Advocacy at the Independent Community Bankers of America where he was named to The […]
For the second consecutive year, the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Association surveyed its retail members on sales conducted the week before Christmas. According to the survey results, IPCPR reported an increase from the previous year in sales traffic and sales volume in its brick and mortar locations, but a decrease in consumer […]
The International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) announced that David Jessup will be its new regional lobbyist for the Midwest. Jessup will represent Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee for IPCPR. In a press release, Greg Zimmerman, IPCPR’s Chair of State Government Affairs commented, “David’s wealth of government affairs experience […]
The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) has named Lisa Cox, CMP (Certified Meeting Professional) its new Senior Director of Trade Show and Events. Cox assumes the position effective January 2nd, 2019. “Lisa’s impressive background in trade show and event management, as well as her track record of crafting new strategies around attendee […]
Enrique Seijas returns to Prime Time – and this time he will join us for Special Edition. We’ll catch up on all of happenings with Matilde Cigars. Plus Bear and Coop discuss the launch of CigarAction.org and Kretak’s acquisition of Foundry Tobacco Company. Coop reports back from La Zona Palooza 2018. Finally, given this episode […]
The International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Association has launched a new website called cigaraction.org. The site is intended to serve as a resource to get information on public policy issues relating to premium cigars and serve as a hub for a grassroots campaign to support a premium cigar exemption in the annual spending […]
