JM Tobacco: 20 Years and Going Strong
Last year, JM Tobacco marked its 20th birthday with the reintroduction of the company’s very first cigar: Española, first launched in 1996. In addition...
5 Ways to Market Your Tobacco Business Online for $500 or Less
It’s something every tobacco business today must come to terms with–the nature of business, and how to market it, is changing. The internet and...
A Sales Crash Course
For Juan Lopez, sales is second nature. Lopez spent 14 years working as a sales representative before taking on a management role within Gurkha...
Fearless: An Interview with Michael Giannini of Ventura Cigar Company
A great business sense, a background in marketing, an eye for opportunity—these are all things that make for a great entrepreneur or a successful...
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...
Procigar Festival: A First-Timer’s Review
This year, Tobacco Business magazine’s art director, Harrison Brackett, attended the Procigar Festival held in Santiago, Dominican Republic, from February 22-25, 2022. With this...
Second Life: Dr. Gaby Kafie and Kafie 1901 Cigars
At the height of Dr. Gaby Kafie’s career, things unexpectedly came to a screeching halt. It was 2007, and Kafie found himself in a...
How to Level Up Your Next Event
I think that an event should be exactly that—it shouldn’t be a routine; it should be an event. Because of the music industry ties...
The Davidoff Experience
The increasingly harsh government regulations have challenged how every tobacco company in the U.S. marketplace conducts business, including Davidoff. Davidoff’s portfolio of products is...
Sparking Innovation
The new CTS line of e-vaping systems from Spark Vapor Brands offers four new closed-tanks system devices from Vapage and Cig2o that deliver a...
