Passion of the Fox
If there’s one word that comes up often when speaking to tobacconist Mitchell Fox, it’s the word “passion,” something he has a lot of...
Tobacconist University: Certified Cigar Reviews
Nothing can help make or break a premium cigar like a review. Google “cigar reviews” and you’ll be presented with about 58,700,000 different results...
Shining Star: Black Star Line Cigars
Adetola “Aric” Wimberly-Bey was born in Chicago and grew up in an Illinois suburb called Glenwood. As the child of two educators, Bey was...
An Enduring Legacy: La Aurora’s Guillermo Leon
La Aurora has been in the cigar industry for over 117 years, and if you ask Guillermo León, the business surrounding cigars has long...
Selling the Seasons
Do you change the way you sell based on the season? I mean, obviously you do BBQs and tailgating in the summer/fall and put...
A Quick-Start Guide to SEO
Regardless of whether your tobacco retail or manufacturing business sells products online or only in a brick-and-mortar store, search engine optimization (SEO) is a...
Carry On: Les Fines Lames
What are some items that you can’t leave home without? Each person has a list of essential must-haves that they need in order to...
Learning to Fly: Blackbird Cigar Co.
Everyone knows the arc of a bird’s life—birds are born into the world not knowing much at all, but several weeks into their life,...
Year-end Troop Support
Despite the insanity of 2020, Operation: Cigars for Warriors (CFW) is still moving forward with its mission of taking care of the nation’s deployed...
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...
