The Year Behind and Ahead of Us
2021 was a very interesting year for Operation: Cigars for Warriors (CFW). As you can imagine, 2020 was an extremely rough year for CFW,...
Reconnecting with Retailers
Davidoff is known for its commitment to its customers’ success. There are different channels and levels of engagement within retail, thus Davidoff has a...
When the FDA Abandons Science
The premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) regulatory process for flavored electronic nicotine-delivery system (ENDS) products has been, in a word, politicized. The knowing rejection...
Multi-Category Retailer Insights
The past two years have been challenging and a major test for discount tobacco outlets and smoke shops. These retailers cater to a more...
TPE22: The Unexpected Trade Show
What is TPE? That is a question that even after almost two decades retailers and others in the tobacco industry in particular continue to...
A “Terrible” Business
“That’s a terrible idea.” That’s what both Grace Cabezas and Nigel Reo-Coker heard from their families when they shared the idea of starting a...
Avoiding the Strange Death of the Cigar Industry
In his 2017 book “The Strange Death of Europe,” political commentator Douglas Murray argues that Europe is, in slow but certain fashion, committing suicide....
Instinctual Growth: The Story Behind CannaAid
You hear it all the time when it comes to business: Go with your gut feeling. That’s exactly what Lee VanTine, the founder of...
Mass-Market Appeal: Frontier Cigars
Frontier Brands’ Rick Louis explains why the mass-market cigar category has gotten a bad rap and how his company’s products are being purchased and...
Satisfaction Guaranteed: Fantasia Distribution
The mere mention of the word “hookah” often conjures up memories of friends gathered together in lounges after work or on college campuses exhaling...
