Two Cognac blended sizes will be added to the Tatiana Cigars family this week at IPCPR. This is the first time Tatiana has added a flavor since the Tio line (Groovy Blue, Night Cap, and Waking Dream), came out in 2007. The two sizes will be Classic: 6 x 44 and La Vita: 5 x [...]
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General Cigar donated $20,000 on behalf of the IPCPR to Ducks Unlimited. The funds will help the organizations habitat restoration efforts around the Gulf of Mexico. According to Debo Mukherjee, General Cigar’s vice president of marketing:
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Miami Cigar & Company, makers of the Nestor Miranda Collection, Tatiana Flavored Cigars, La Aurora Cigars and Don Lino Cigars says it will debut the Nestor Miranda Art Deco selection at the IPCPR 78th Annual Convention and International Trade Show in New Orleans. The new Dominican-Nicaraguan blend offered unique challenge for Pepin Garcia using a [...]
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Xikar has entered into a license agreement with Drew Estate, creating a new venture to move two new product lines that will be launched at IPCPR. The ACID-XIKAR Accessory Collection and the Liga Privada-XIKAR Accessory Collection are of the same caliber as other Xikar lines and for initial release will only be available in limited [...]
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Look for Cubanero Enterprises to release its new cigar brand, REINADO, at IPCPR this year. Translating to “reign,” it is intended to echo a superior lifestyle experience. According to a company announcement:
Look for a new La Aroma de Cuba cigar from Ashton at IPCPR this year. The Mi Amor has been in the works for two years and is a creation of Pepin Garcia’s factory in Esteli, Nicaragua. According to the Norfolk Cigar Examiner:
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If you live in Savannah, Georgia and want to protect your rights – all of them – you need to make sure your voice is heard. The city’s proposed anti-smoking measure would include nearly all workplaces, including cigar shops, according to the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association, and such a broad measure could [...]
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Charlie Torano, President of Torano Cigars announces that the Torano family is retaking control over the distribution of all of its own brands, which currently are under the control of C.A.O. International. But, effective August 1st all control will be back in the hands of the Torano family. Also on the agenda for the Torano [...]
Because of the 75 percent OTP tax that takes effect August 1, 2010, many tobacconists from New York aren’t making the trek out to New Orleans this year. A source close to the market tells me that the New York cigar shops are focused on buying as much product as they can in July, particularly [...]
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We’re now in the run-up to the IPCPR show, and everyone’s dying to know what the cigar manufacturers have up their sleeves … for the event and the rest of the year. Sam Leccia has some ideas for NUB, as you’ll see in the video below.
