Category: News
Cigar News: Cigar Marketplace Announces Exclusive New World by AJ Fernandez Tins
Cigar Marketplace, a B2B Premium Cigar and Accessories online brokerage, has announced a collaboration with AJ Fernandez to offer an exclusive new product: a 4 x 36 version of New World packaged in 6-count tins. The tins come in displays of 5 count.
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Cigar News: Crux Hires Sam Ventura as Direct Sales Executive
Crux Cigars has hired their first Direct Sales Executive, Sam Ventura. Starting today, Sam covers the Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas territory. His role includes facilitating existing retail partners, hosting events, and growing Crux’s presence throughout the territory.
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Cigar News: Mombacho to Distribute in Spain
Spain marks the 15th country to receive distribution from Mombacho Cigars S.A. This new distribution comes through La Casa Del Tabaco SLU and begins January 2020. The new partnership begins with the company’s Tierra Volcan and Liga Maestro brands, which they have already received.
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Cigar News: Santa Clara, Inc. Announces Montecristo Volume 1: 100 Days
Tobacco wholesaler Santa Clara, Inc. is introducing an exclusive cigar from Altadis U.S.A.: Montecristo Volume 1: 100 Days. The cigar is rolled in Honduras at the Flor de Copan factory and blended by the Grupo de Maestros of Altadis U.S.A. The blend is said to contain some tobacco that has been aged ten years and uses an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan and Dominican Republic filler.
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Cigar News: Jas Sum Kral Announces New Nuggs Sizes for TPE
Jas Sum Kral has announced two new sizes of Nuggs in both the natural and maduro blends for the 2020 TPE tradeshow: a 5.5×44 corona gorda, and a 7×44 lonsdale. These new sizes will only be available to current Nuggs retailers that carry the 4 x 48 size.
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Cigar News: Arturo Fuente to Offer Exclusive Cigars for PCA Attendees
Carlito Fuente announced today in a press release that Arturo Fuente would offer two sets of previously unreleased cigars to retailers that attend the 2020 PCA trade show. This is a move meant to support the PCA and a response to the recent exodus of large cigar makers.
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Cigar News: Southern Draw Announces CEDRUS Lancero for TPE
Southern Draw is bringing a new vitola to the CEDRUS line at TPE 2020, a lancero. This vitola joins the original “Hogan” 5.5 x 52 belicoso, as well as the more recent 5.5 x 54 Robusto, Toro 6.0 x 52, and Gordo 6.5 x 60. Within the rest of the other companies offerings, this lancero joins the Rose of Sharon Lancero, Jacobs Ladder Lancero, and Kudzu Lancero.
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Cigar News: A.C.E. Prime Announces M.X.S. Dominique Wilkins – Diamond Edition Box
A.C.E. Price introduced the M.X.S. line at last years IPCPR trade show. It included two blends, one made by Dominique Wilkins and the other made by Tiago Splitter. Now, to celebrate his 60th birthday, Dominique Wilkins is releasing a special Diamond Edition Box individually signed by the man himself. It also has a 3D printed image of the NBA superstar in flight and contains the reserved, aged first batch of the M.X.S. Dominique Wilkins cigars.
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Cigar News: Official Responses to Big Four Manufacturer PCA Pullout
Yesterday, the big four cigar manufacturers (Davidoff, Drew Estate, Altadis, General) announced that they were pulling out of the PCA trade show for 2020. Read more about that here. Since that announcement several companies have released official statements, including PCA itself. Below are those statements.
Read More Cigar News: Altadis, General, Davidoff, and Drew Estate Not Attending PCA 2020
Today, the four largest cigar companies in America announced that they will not be attending the PCA (formerly IPCPR) trade show this year. Altadis, General, Davidoff, and Drew Estate each released separate press releases but the general consensus is that they are unhappy with the declining attendance, lack of cooperation with members to make changes to the organization, and rising costs. The linchpin for this action new seems to have been the general unrest around last year’s poorly executed announcement of Consumer Day, which has since been cancelled.
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Cigar News: Casa Cuevas Announces Alec Cuevas As New Director of Operations
Casa Cuevas Cigars announced today Alec Cuevas, son of President Luis Cuevas Jr., as the company’s new Director of Operations. This makes Alec the fifth generation of Cuevas to join the company.
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Cigar News: Fratello Bringing Three New Bundled Cigars to TPE 2020
Today, Omar de Frias announced that Fratello Cigars would be bringing three new bundled cigars to the TPE 2020 tradeshow: Fratello Blu, Fratello Rosso and Fratello Verde.
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