This week General Cigar began shipping a three-blend line under its Santa Clara line. It’s a project that was done by Matt Booth, Justin Andrews, and the team at Honduran American Tobacco S.A. (HATSA). While Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) was not in attendance at the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, the Room101 brand […]
At the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, Alec Bradley Cigar Company revealed its mystery exclusive item to attendees. It’s called the New-Mix Classics and it is a four-count sampler containing cigars from four discontinued blends from the company’s past that have been remastered using the original blends. The cigars in the sampler include […]
The 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show is now in the annals of history, and a part of that story appears to have been the spread of the COVID-19 virus among attendees. On Monday, Cigar Coop learned of the first positive test result of an attendee. As of the evening of Wednesday, July […]
Last year HVC Cigars celebrated ten years in business, but the past year has perhaps been the most important for the company. In June 2021, the company announced it would be handling its own distribution which includes warehousing ad order fulfillment. Almost a year later in June 2022, the company announced it was opening its […]
At the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, the joint project between Arturo Fuente Cigars and Padrón debuted. The principals of the project, Jorge Padrón and Carlos “Carlito” Fuente Jr. created cigars to honor their fathers, the late José Orlando Padrón and Carlos Fuente Sr. The twist is that each principal blended a cigar […]
When it comes to Day Four, which is the final day of the Premium Cigar Associate (PCA) Trade Show, there typically is a drop in foot traffic (Cigar Coop describes this as the actual amount of trade show attendees on the floor). As in the past, there was a drop this year. The good news […]
Day Three started with a press conference for the media with Premium Cigar Association. I’ll make this plain and simple. Shame on the cigar media who didn’t send team members to cover the press conference. This year I represented the Cigar Coop team while the other three members were visiting booths. To see cigar media […]
I’m going to say the theme of Day Two of the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show was crowds – and it wasn’t attendance related. First up was the unveiling of Legends, the joint project being released by Arturo Fuente and Padrón Cigars. It’s a project where Jorge Padrón blended a cigar in tribute to […]
Scott Pearce, Greg Zimmermann, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Staff, and its Board of Directors, must be very happy with the opening day of the 2022 PCA Trade Show. While we have not received attendance numbers, there definitely seems to be more attendees than in previous years and there has been a great positive vibe […]
The PCA Trade Show and Convention opened July 9th in Las Vegas, Nevada. As part of the normal business of the opening breakfast, the PCA named new members to the board of directors. This year five new members were added. The PCA Board of Directors consists of 14 retail members and five Associate Members. […]
