Hitting All the Right Notes: Tabacalera USA’s Rafael Nodal, Part 1
In musical terms, an overture comes at the start of an opera, play or composition. It serves as a lead-up and introduction to something...
Embargo Cigars: Not for Fame or Fortune
Since it first opened its doors in 2017, Phoenix, Arizona-based Embargo Cigars has become a cigar destination for cigar smokers in search of something...
Big Box Energy: Adapting Subscription Boxes for Cigars, Part 2
Part 2 of Tobacco Business' story examining the growing subscription model retail category as it applies to the cigar industry. Panelists include ave Imber,...
Top 50 Tobacco Outlet Chains of the Year
Tobacco outlets are typically defined as establishments that sell tobacco and tobacco products, such as cigarettes. In addition to being standalone stores, tobacco outlets...
Big Box Energy: Adapting Subscription Boxes for Cigars, Part 1
The COVID-19 pandemic, which shut down many brick-and-mortar stores and left consumers scrambling to find new ways of making purchases, gave rise to the...
Tobacco Retail E-Commerce Made Easy
Being a brick-and-mortar retailer is a challenge for many. The typical brick-and-mortar retailer is limited to serving a small geographic area, and they also...
ATL Cigar Company: All Inclusive
Entrepreneurs are inspired to start businesses for many different reasons. Sometimes the motivation is driven by the idea of big profits and gains, and...
JR Cigar: The Long Game
Often referred to as the “World’s Largest Cigar Store,” JR Cigar built its business around the initiative of offering customers the best possible retail...
How to Grow Your Tobacco Business with Clubhouse
There’s a new social media platform that businesses and consumers are clamoring to get involved with: Clubhouse. This invite-only platform banks on FOMO (fear...
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...
