PRODUCT PROFILE
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014
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TOBACCO BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014
Premium From
Roberto P. Duran
Roberto P. Duran Premium Cigars has introduced a new
super premium blend: the Roberto P. Duran Cigar Brand.
The introduction follows the company’s release of the
Azan line of cigars at the 2013 IPCPR trade show, which
included the Burgundy, Premium White and Maduro
Natural. The Roberto P. Duran Cigar is a super premium
cigar that pays homage to Duran’s family and his fam-
ily’s city of origin in Cuba.
The Roberto P. Duran Cigar comes in four sizes:
• The Rio Toa (5x52), named for the biggest river in Cuba at the heart
of Baracoa,
• La Punta ( 6x54 torpedo), a name that refers to the fort of “La Punta,”
a symbol of Baracoa built in 1802,
• Tainos (6x56), an ode to the Tainos, or the natives of Baracoa before
the arrival of Colon, and
• Cacique Guama (6x60), named for a Tainos chief from Baracoa who
was a great fighter against the Spanish occupation.
Roberto P. Duran Premium Cigars, Robertodurancigars.com
Sindicato Announces
Photo Contest
On July 1, Sindicato Cigars began ac-
cepting entries to its Perfect Pair Photo
Contest. The company is in search of
the perfect photograph of the perfect
pairing between the new Sindicato cigar and something equally as amazing. The
company is encouraging cigar lovers everywhere to post their photos on social me-
dia channels with the hashtag #ThePerfectPair and a mention of @SindicatoCigars.
Sindicato will award a box of their new flagship cigar, the Sindicato, to one win-
ner each week for 16 weeks. Those 16 finalists will then be entered to win a 5-day,
4-night trip to Nicaragua including visits to multiple tobacco fields and factories
where Sindicato cigars are sprouted, harvested, aged and rolled.
To enter, visit sindicatocigars.com/promotions for details and official contest rules.
New Voodoo
Merchandisers
Moorpark, California-based Kretek Inter-
national has announced a new series of
Voodoo acrylic displays and pre-packed
merchandisers, with choices ranging
from a complete line of pre-packed six-
count e-liquid and disposable e-vapor-
izer display cartons to 74-count and
144-count permanent acrylic Voodoo
merchandisers with up to 17 different
SKUs of e-liquids, e-pens, and acces-
sories. A 12-count refillable acrylic cube
of Voodoo disposable e-hookahs is also
available.
As the vaporizer section expands in
mainstream channels, the Voodoo brand
offers high-visibility leadership that
grows sales. For example, E-vaporizer
purchases add an average of $18 per
retail transaction. Pre-packed in six-pack
counter displays that allow retailers to
show maximum flavors in minimum of
space, Voodoo disposable e-vaporizers
offer around 800 puffs. Voodoo 10 mg e-
liquids are also available in space-saving
six-packs in 12 blendable flavors. Larger
acrylic displays can carry a custom as-
sortment of flavors and personal vapor-
izer items.
Each Voodoo e-pen and disposable
e-vaporizer is powered by a SuperLast
Lithium-Ion battery, featuring an auto-
matic shutoff. Kretek International, 800-
358-8100,
.
