Cigar Warning Mandate Decoded
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require new warning label statements to be included on packaging and advertisements for cigars. Pursuant to...
Warnings Galore: Understanding California’s Proposition 65
Under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule deeming tobacco products to be subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act...
Storytellers: Behind the Scenes of Handrolled: A Film About Cigars
Jesse Mariut and Steve Gherebean are storytellers. They are also cigar enthusiasts, and the more they got into the hobby, the more they realized...
Lighting the Way: Scandinavian Tobacco Group’s CEO Niels Frederiksen, Part 2
In the first part of an exclusive interview, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) CEO Niels Frederiksen discussed how his company has built popular tobacco brands...
Defining Innovation in Tobacco
Think there’s a one-size-fits-all definition of innovation? Think again. Here are five ways you and your company can be innovative while working in a...
Greater Expectations: An Interview with Caldwell Cigar Co.’s Robert Caldwell
How does a birthday dinner lead to the creation of one of the leading boutique cigar companies? It started with an entrepreneur identifying a...
Purpose Driven Leadership: Tips from Davidoff’s Dylan Austin
On the first day of 2018, Dylan Austin took on the role of vice president of sales and marketing at Davidoff of Geneva USA....
Driven by Innovation: The Growing Demand for Vapor and E-Cigarettes
Alternatives to combustible cigarettes have been steadily gaining market share, and market observers expect that ascent to continue through the rest of 2018. “We...
Cannabis’ Cash Concerns
By all accounts, cannabis and cannabis-related businesses can be lucrative—and the field of play is growing steadily. Already, 30 states and the District of...
A Trade Approach: Marketing Tips from Altadis U.S.A.’s Oliver Hyams
Romeo y Julieta, Montecristo, H. Upmann and Henry Clay—these are all well-known premium cigar brands within the Altadis U.S.A. portfolio. Though these brands have...
