The Navigator: Tabacalera USA’s Javier Estades, Part 1
The premium cigar industry is full of different personalities and entrepreneurs, each one having his or her own personal approach to business. Some are...
Tobacco Plus Expo 2019 Preview
Serious business, and serious fun—that’s the unofficial theme of the 2019 Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE). The show has long been known as the annual...
Partners in Smoke: Emperors Cut Cigars
In the premium cigar industry, no one person is responsible for building a business or making a cigar brand a hit. It’s often a...
Quintessentially American: Missouri Meerschaum Co.
Mom. Baseball. Apple pie. These three things have traditionally been viewed as the quintessential essence of the United States. By 1860, the phrase “as...
Acing FDA Age Verification Rules
Since the FDA’s deeming regulations went into effect on August 8, 2016, anyone selling tobacco products must verify that the purchaser is over 18...
Warriors at TPE
The annual Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) trade show is an exciting and unique trade show, with so many types of companies, including premium cigars....
5 Tips for a Better Press Release
Looking to write a press release that gets results? Alec Bradley Cigars’ director of sales and marketing, Jonathan Lipson, offers these five tips:
Start with...
The Winning Formula: E.P. Carrillo’s Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, Part 1
If there was an award for “Most Winningest Man in the Tobacco Industry,” there may be no other man more deserving of it than...
The Cigar Industry vs. the FDA
The cigar industry has been challenging onerous regulation in court and through congressional lobbying, but to what effect? Tobacco Business spoke with Henry Roemer...
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...
