Top Five Tobacco Retailer Concerns in 2021
What are tobacco retailers worried about? We asked and received a wide range of responses. Here’s what’s concerning retailers, listed in order of the...
Pipe Tobacco Blend of the Year: Peterson Nightcap
In 2018, Scandinavian Tobacco Group Lane Limited (STG) acquired the entire Peterson pipe tobacco portfolio. Although STG’s primary focus has been cigars, pipes and...
2020 Tobacco Retail Survey
If you are a retailer and seller of tobacco products, please take this brief survey about your retail business. Results from this survey will...
The Navigator: Tabacalera USA’s Javier Estades, Part 2
In part 2 of Tobacco Business' latest cover story, Tabacalera USA's Javier Estades shares how he leads, Altadis U.S.A.'s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic...
When the FDA Abandons Science
The premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) regulatory process for flavored electronic nicotine-delivery system (ENDS) products has been, in a word, politicized. The knowing rejection...
Instagram Like an Influencer
Is your tobacco business on Instagram? Adrian Acosta, owner of The Cigar Culture Brokerage and the Instagram account @thecigarculture (which has more than 25,000...
Design Language: Visually Communicating Your Brand’s Message
As plain packaging legislation begins to grip the tobacco industry abroad, the importance and value of good design becomes even more clear. Packaging and...
Acing Age Verification
The increase in youth usage of electronic nicotine-delivery systems (ENDS) coupled with efforts by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to combat that...
Agent of Change: Davidoff’s Dylan Austin, Part 1
If the past year has taught all professionals and businesses one lesson, it’s that things can change very quickly. Change and transitions in life...
Michael Herklots Delivers Keynote Address at Tobacco Plus Expo 2019
As the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) growing regulation of the premium tobacco industry becomes a reality, manufacturers and tobacconists face uncertainties over...