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Scandinavian Tobacco Group Announced Promotion of Stijn Elbersen
Elbersen will lead the International Hand-Made Cigars team and will be responsible for the complete hand-made cigar portfolio outside the US, which includes General Cigar and Cigars International brands.
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Womens International Cigar Club Will Offer Special Program During Habanos Festival 2016
The schedule of the 18th Habanos Festival taking place from February 29th to March 4th will be complemented by events of the Womens International Cigar Club. WiCC will hold their annual lunch party on Friday 4th March in the lovely garden at Espacios, on Calle 10 in Miramar.
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Blend Bar to Open New Lounge in Pittsburgh’s Kopper Building in June
Blend Bar announced their plans to open up a new venue in the Koppers Building located at 436 Seventh Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA in June 2016. The company announced that they recently signed a lease for approximately 5,000 square feet in the historic building to open up their “Blend Bar with Davidoff Ci
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Daniel Marshall Created Three-Tier Cigar for Whisky Pairings
The London cigar venue Cigars at No. Ten was the site of the unveiling of Daniel Marshall’s newest creation: a special three-tier cigar designed by Manuel Quesada and Nestor Plasencia to pair with three flights of Glenfiddich Single Malt Whiskies.
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Enrique Somoza Promoted to U.S. Director of Operations at A.J. Fernandez Cigars
A.J. Fernandez Cigars announced yesterday that Enrique “Ricky” Somoza will now oversee operations in the USA. Somoza, born and raised in Miami, had worked as production manager for A.J. Fernandez in their Nicaragua factory since 2013 after meeting A.J. on a trip to Nicaragua.
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Nick van Olden is New VP of Tobacco Procurement at Drew Estate
Swisher International has hired Nick van Olden as vice president of corporate tobacco procurement. In this newly established role, van Olden will coordinate tobacco procurement for Drew Estate’s premium cigar line.
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Looking Back: Cigar Journal’s Best Buy Cigars of 2015
We combed through our blind tastings from the year 2015 again to find out which cigars received particularly good evaluations during the course of the year but are offered for a much lower price compared to others of the same rating.
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Famous Smoke Shop Announces New Addition to Vudu Brand
Famous Smoke Shop announced the release of the third line in their exclusive Vudu cigar brand. Like Vudu Dark and Vudu Sacrifice, the other lines of the brand, Vudu Priest cigars have been blended and produced by J. Fuego in Honduras.
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Limited Davidoff Winston Churchill Size About to be Launched
Davidoff announced ‘The Raconteur’, a new 6×56 Gran Toro as Limited Edition. The cigars will feature a second ring with different Sir Winston’s quotes. 6,000 wooden boxes, each containing ten cigars with a different quote, have been produced.
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Casa de Montecristo Set to Open in Brickell, Miami in Early 2016
Prime Cigar & Whiskey Bar announced the opening of a new venue in Miami’s Downtown Brickell area in early 2016. The company is partnering with Altadis USA to open up a new 4,700 square foot location at the Millecento tower.
Read More: Casa de Montecristo Set to Open in Brickell, Miami in Early 2016
Miami Cigar & Co. Adds Nate McIntyre to their US Sales Team
Miami Cigar & Company, producer of the Nestor Miranda Brand and importer of La Aurora cigars to the US, announced the addition of Nate McIntyre to their sales team yesterday.
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Davidoff Announced Introduction of Nicaragua Box Pressed
Davidoff Cigars has announced its new Davidoff Nicaragua Box Pressed to arrive in late March 2016. The two new box pressed sizes (Robusto 5 x 48 and Toro 6 x 52) are part of the company’s Nicaragua line and will be the first box pressed cigars from Davidoff.
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