{"id":11636,"date":"2016-06-17T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=11636"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:02:08","slug":"uks-aits-lunch-at-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/uks-aits-lunch-at-lords\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s AITS Lunch At Lord&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inbetween ominous looking rainclouds, the 52<sup>nd<\/sup> annual Association of Independent Tobacco Specialists (AITS) trade lunch was bathed in sunshine at Lord\u2019s, England.<\/p>\n<p>The famous old cricket ground was host to retailers, suppliers and industry friends for a Champagne reception in The Harris Gardens, followed by a meal, entertainment and charity raffle in the Thomas Lord Suite.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11637\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AITS_Lunch.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11637\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AITS_Lunch-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Nick Hammond\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-11637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Nick Hammond<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>TV and West End showman Brian Conley entertained guests \u2013 some rather more than they might have hoped! \u2013 and representatives from Hunters &amp; Frankau, British American Tobacco and Tor Imports were among the sponsors of the event. Litto Gomez of La Flor Dominicana was among the Tor guests.<\/p>\n<p>Following lunch, a long afternoon in the Lord\u2019s Tavern, with plenty of good smokes, was how many attendees chose to continue the popular annual event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inbetween ominous looking rainclouds, the 52nd annual Association of Independent Tobacco Specialists (AITS) trade lunch was bathed in sunshine at Lord\u2019s, England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[177,49,63,44],"tags":[2565,2564,863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}