{"id":15963,"date":"2017-05-16T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T08:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=15963\/"},"modified":"2017-05-16T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T08:31:02","slug":"tabacalera-usa-signs-up-boutique-blends-cigars-in-strategic-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/tabacalera-usa-signs-up-boutique-blends-cigars-in-strategic-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabacalera USA Signs Up Boutique Blends Cigars in Strategic Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tabacalera USA has reached a strategic alliance agreement with <a title=\"Rafael Nodal: From Asylum Seeker to Master of Boutique Blends\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/rafael-nodal-from-refugee-to-master-of-boutique-blends\/\">Boutique Blends Cigars<\/a>, the maker of such well known premium hand-rolled cigars brands as Aging Room, <a title=\"La Boh\u00e9me Pittore is #11 of Cigar Journal\u2019s Top 25 of 2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/la-boheme-pittore-is-11-of-cigar-journals-top-25-of-2015\/\">La Boheme<\/a> and Oliveros.<\/p>\n<p>Altadis U.S.A. will begin distributing these and other Boutique Blends Cigars shortly leading to an expected full integration at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRafael Nodal, who has led the Miami-based group since 2002, will support our premium cigar Altadis U.S.A. business,\u201d said Javier Estades, head of cigar operations for Tabacalera USA. \u201cRafael will focus mainly on product quality and innovation, on strategic relations with our trade customers and brick and mortar operations, and other areas in the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis move is consistent with the continuing growth and strengthening of our Tabacalera USA business operations and will complement recent changes, including the appointment of Rob Norris to head up Altadis U.S.A, the expansion of our retail program under Casa de Montecristo and the recent appointment of Steve Lochan as general manager of the unit, and <a title=\"Rob Maneson Appointed CEO of JR Cigar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/rob-maneson-appointed-ceo-of-jr-cigar\/\">Rob Maneson\u2019s appointment to head JR Cigar<\/a>,\u201d Estades said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabacalera USA has reached a strategic alliance agreement with Rafael Nodal&#8217;s Boutique Blends Cigars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":15968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[177,49,2808,44],"tags":[266,4320,265,4263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963"}],"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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}