The 2024 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show will see some significant changes coming for the media who will be covering the show. The changes will include the dropping of media being charged a fee to attend the Trade Show and loopholes involving media getting to badges from manufacturers for entrance to the Trade Show. […]
Luciano Cigars now has a global Lounge Sponsorship Program. Under the program, Luciano Cigars will collaborate with well-established retailers to brand lounges across not just the U.S. but on a worldwide basis. The lounges will be branded “Dreamer VIP” lounges, named after one of Luciano’s foundational core lines, Luciano the Dreamer. The company has already […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent its proposed rules that would ban flavored cigars to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Also going to the OMB is the proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. The proposed rules will now be reviewed by the OMB’s Office of Information and […]
Daniel Marshall’s 8th annual Kitzbuhel Campfire Event is set to take place Saturday, January 20, 2024, at the Kitzbuhel Country Club, Austria on the Daniel Marshall Cigar Lounge & Terrace. Once again, the event will coincide with the famed Hahnenkamm-Rennen Ski competition. The event has not only attracted competitors from the ski competition but also […]
United Kingdom (U.K.) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is proposing a generational smoking ban. Under the proposed law, anyone born on or after January 1, 2009, would be prohibited from buying tobacco products. Currently, the legal age to purchase tobacco products in the U.K. is age 18, but under the proposed law, those who reach age […]
General Cigar has announced it has begun shipping a four-pack sampler of four CAO Toro-sized cigars known as the CAO Premier 54s. The “54” gets the name in that all four of the cigars are 6 x 54 Toros. These cigars include:: CAO Maduro CAO Cameroon CAO Consigliere CAO BX3 Pricing for the CAO Premier […]
Steve Saka, owner of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, has announced a rebranding of the original Sobremesa line. The changes include renaming the original Sobremesa line as Sobremesa Solita. In addition, most of the box counts will now go from 25-count boxes to 13-count boxes. Finally, some of the vitola names will also undergo brand changes. […]
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It combines the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week, we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday at 8am Eastern Time. […]
Lampert Cigars continues its distribution expansion. Today the company has announced it has expanded its distribution into the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). The company’s distribution there will be handled by The Tobacconist U.A.E. In a press release announcing the distribution deal, Lampert says the Lampert 1675 Azul, Rojo, and Morado lines will initially be covered […]
Columbus Day is a day often celebrated by people of Italian heritage, and it was on Columbus Day that a new company that pays homage to Italian heritage was launched – MB Fuma. MB Fuma (MBF) is a company founded by Jared Michaeli Ingrisano, who recently became the President of Mombacho Cigars S.A./Favilli. The company […]
