Swisher President John J. Miller will be adding Chief Executive Officer to his title. Today the tobacco giant announced that its Board of Directors has elected Miller to serve as both President and Chief Executive Officer. Miller had been in the President’s role since 2017. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President of […]
Alex Goldman, a former executive with Swisher International best known for his tenure as President of Royal Gold Cigars, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment on charges of committing tobacco tax fraud. This was the result of a plea deal that saw Goldman plead guilty to the charge and also work as an informant […]
On Thursday October 12th, 2017 Swisher International announced that its CEO and President Peter Ghiloni will be retiring at the end of the year. Ghiloni’s retirement caps off a 34-year tenure at Swisher International. Concurrently, the company also announced Ghiloni’s successor will be John Miller, Swisher International’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. To premium cigar […]
Dateline: July 3rd, 2012 A crazy decision was made to take Cigar Coop to a TRUE 365-day-a-year publication. The idea would be to publish original content every day with “no days off”. I would have considered it a success to pull it off for one year straight. But I am happy to report that yesterday […]
Drew Estate has announced its intention to significantly restructure its sales organization, at both the inside and field level. The new structure will feature new role definitions and have greater decentralized decision-making which will strengthen Drew Estate’s ability to more efficiently serve the needs of its customers in each channel of distribution in which it competes. As a […]
Netherlands-based cigar company Royal Agio Cigars has announced plans to establish a wholly-owned U.S. Based Headquarters. In addition, the company also announced it will be launching its own U.S. based sales force. For the past three years, Royal Agio had been working with Drew Estate to handle its U.S. sales and distribution. While the U.S. […]
Drew Estate has named Stephan Qarimi as its International Market Manager and Director of Travel Retail. Qarimi comes from Royal Agio Cigars where he spent 11 years as that company’s International Sales and Marketing Manager. Royal Agio Cigars is a company where Drew Estate handles distribution for in the U.S. market. In a press release […]
Drew Estate has announced its second executive appointment in two days. Today the company named David Lazarus its new Vice President of Sales. Known as “Laz”, Lazarus will have overall accountability for field sales, inside sales, key national accounts, in-store events, and wholesale. Lazarus will report directly to the CEO, Glenn Wolfson. “We are thrilled to […]
Drew Estate has announced company co-founder Jonathan Drew has signed a new multi-year agreement where he will assume the role as President of the company. In this role, Drew returns to an executive operations position reporting to CEO Glenn Wolfson where his responsibilities will include overseeing the entire portfolio of Drew Estate’s brands. Following the […]
For many years, Drew Estate has always been one of the most active booths at the IPCPR. In 2015, Drew Estate went into its first IPCPR Trade Show as a subsidiary under Swisher International. As we observed, Drew Estate very much remained Drew Estate at that trade show – namely there still was hip-hop music and […]
