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Heinrich Villiger Steps Down as CEO of Villiger Cigars After 65 Years in Charge
Heinrich Villiger hands over his function as CEO of the Villiger Group after 65 years in charge. Starting from March 2016 Robert Suter will take over his new role as CEO. The board of Villiger Soehne Holding AG and Villiger Soehne AG remains unchanged.
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Detailed Information About the New Hoyo by General Cigar Now Available
General Cigar will launch a new version of Hoyo de Monterrey exclusively for brick and mortar retailers. The new collection called Hoyo will be available in four sizes and begins shipping to all retailers in the U.S.A. on April 1.
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Visiting Estelí’s Small Cigar Factories
Estelí in Nicaragua is made up of much more than just big cigar factories. Parallel to Joya de Nicaragua, Drew Estate, Plasencia and AJ Fernandez a myriad of smaller factories operate throughout the city, in everything from town houses to backyards. And they all seem to look ahead with a sense of pr
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La Palina Will Decrease Prices up to USD 1.50 per Cigar
La Palina Cigars is lowering the prices on all of its Dominican blends. The Red and Black Labels will each see an average MSRP decrease of $1.00 per cigar, and Classics will see an MSRP decrease of up to $1.50 per cigar.
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Historic Pipe Sketches by Jean Perron at Amsterdam Pipe Museum Exhibition
By pure chance the curator of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum found a brown leather case in a private library in Belgium. It contained 80 pages of designs from the 1860’s of tobacco pipes to be carved in meerschaum.
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La Aurora Puro Vintage 2006 111 Aniversario Master Case Series Now Shipping
La Aurora began to ship the Puro Vintage 2006 111 Aniversario Master Case Series on Friday, March 11 in the U.S.A. Limited to only 500 cases, the Master series features replica packaging of the same boxes that La Aurora used in 1906.
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CAO to Release Two New Flathead Steel Horse Vitolas Next Week
CAO Steel Horse is launching two smaller-format smokes: Handbrake (4.5” x 50, USD 6.99) and Roadkill (5.5 x 54, USD 7.00) will be available at retailer in the U.S. beginning next week.
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StogieFest – the Largest Annual Cigar Gathering in North Florida
The Fifth Annual StogieFest in Jacksonville, FL will be held from Friday, March 18 to Sunday, March 20th, 2016. StogieFest showcases over 20 cigar manufacturers, each giving out their finest cigars complimentary to all attendees
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Montecristo: 80th Anniversary of Cuba’s Best-Selling Brand
Students of the origins of Havana cigar brands will know that Montecristo came in just five sizes named numerically and it has always been assumed that the initial athletic line-up formed Montecristo’s range from the very beginning in 1935. However, during his research into the history of Hunters &#
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Commemorative Cigar Released by Joya de Nicaragua
Special limited run of cigars dedicated to the memory of a Dutch cigar lover: This year’s Ilja series commemorative cigar has been made by Joya De Nicaragua.
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