Jonathan Drew on Reinventing Drew Estate, Part 2
The July/August 2017 issue of Tobacco Business magazine featured an exclusive interview with Jonathan Drew, President and Founder of Drew Estate and the recently...
Banking on Passion: An Interview with Kristoff Cigars’ Glen Case
Glen Case has always enjoyed a good cigar. Case spent 18 years working in the financial services industry before he entered into the cigar...
Investing in Innovation
As the introduction of rules and regulations set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has changed how many manufacturers operate, the...
Plasencia Cigars: The Soul of the Tobacco Industry
The Plasencia family has been growing top-quality tobacco for five generations. Today, Plasencia Cigars manufactures more than 35 million handmade cigars each year and...
Macanudo: The Evolution of an Icon
The story of Macanudo begins with Edgar M. Cullman, a brilliant entrepreneur with a great vision, who built Macanudo to become one of the...
Santa Clara: A Premium Partner
Since 1971, Burlington, North Carolina-based Santa Clara has been distributing tobacco products to wholesale accounts throughout the country. Its clients include other distributors, brick-and-mortar...
Avanti: An American Dream
Avanti Cigar Company’s history dates back more than 100 years to when the founders of the company wanted to capitalize on their love for...
IPCPR 2017: Product Highlights
Amidst U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filings and industry lawsuits, the show must go on! And with it, so do product unveilings, limited...
Jonathan Drew on Reinventing Drew Estate, Part 1
There’s no denying that Jonathan Drew is a maverick. He and his partners at Drew Estate broke virtually every unspoken rule in an industry...
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...
