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Gurkha Cigars is re-releasing the grandfathered brand San Miguel as its latest premium cigar. San Miguel marks the third recent offering by Gurkha Cigars that is made with the highly desirable Aganorsa Leaf from Nicaragua.
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The Samuel I. Davis Company was a large business that at one time had factories in New York City, West Tampa and Key West.
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Casa Cuevas Cigars announces that Carter Skinner, co-owner of Tiburon Boutique Cigars, will represent the brand in the great state of Texas. Skinner, a Texas native from the city of Wharton has led a very colorful life, which once including musical aspirations.
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Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG)—the parent company of General Cigar Co., Cigars International, STG Lane and others today announced that Régis Broersma has been appointed Senior Vice President of STG’s new North America Branded and Rest of World Division. In this new appointment, Régis returns permanently to his previous role as President of General Cigar Co.
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Founded in 1882 by Alvaro Garcia and Jose Vega. Their company manufactured premium, hand rolled cigars. Currently, the brand is a US machine made cigar manufactured by Scandinavian Tobacco Group . The majority of these machine made cigars use a Dominican candela wrapper.
Continue ReadingIn the beginning I originally wrote this particular series about the Cigar Factories of Ybor City between the end of 2009 / beginning of 2010 for my Tampa Cigar Examiner column. Unfortunately, the examiner site closed shop and I lost the series. Fortunately, I have been successful in re-creating the series and added a few […]
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Recently, both online and offline, I’ve been involved in discussions about cigar lounges. The online discussion was basically “what would you like to see in a cigar lounge”, while the in person discussion compared local shops against each other.
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I was going through my correspondence last night and came across a brief mention about this ongoing lawsuit. J.G.G. Tobacco Holding Company Inc (My Father Cigars) entered a complaint against Antigua Esteli Tobacco, Corp (Antigua Esteli Cigars) on 9/6/2019. They have since amended the complaint and filed it on 1/10/2020. Below you will find the […]
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The Regensburg cigar factory was built in February, 1910 for Edward Regensburg. The factory had seats for 1,000 cigar rollers. Its most famous feature is the four sided clock that has been nicknamed “El Reloj”
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There have been many press releases this week regarding cigar manufacturers, retailers and the PCA (formerly IPCPR). These releases concern the annual PCA tradeshow. I have put them together in one post for you to read.
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