Marketing from the Outside
As Oettinger Davidoff AG’s senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Charles Awad has the lofty task of marketing and promoting the Davidoff cigar...
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...
Missouri Meerschaum: Packed Full of Insight
Missouri Meerschaum Co. has been in business for 148 years doing one thing: making corncob pipes. The company was the first—and is one of...
NNN: The FDA’s Proposed Rule for Smokeless Tobacco
Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule to establish the agency’s first product standard that would limit...
Ohserase Manufacturing: New Beginnings
For more than 400 years, tobacco has played a key role in the Iroquois and Mohawk Native American cultures. In the past, tobacco served...
Insights from IPCPR 2017
Spirits were cautiously high at July’s annual gathering of cigar and pipe industry members. Keynote speaker Rudy Giuliani echoed the sentiments expressed by many...
The International Implications for Regulating Cigars
When we discuss the adverse economic impact of government action against the passion for and production of great cigars—whether it is smoking bans, taxation,...
All Eyes On Cannabis: The Budding Opportunity
Marijuana is top of mind. With tobacco businesses increasingly under pressure, is the Almighty Bud an answer to profit prayers? Is it just about...
Vapor’s Updated Voice
The vapor category is still solid with tobacco retailers—but with some new twists. As competition heats up in the premium cigarette segment with heightened...
Reading the Tobacco and Marijuana Leaves
San Francisco recently voted to eliminate the sale of all flavored tobacco products starting in April 2018. Consenting adults will no longer be able...
