{"id":17283,"date":"2017-09-23T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T09:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=17283\/"},"modified":"2017-09-23T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T09:38:27","slug":"intertabac-2017-micallef-cigars-enters-european-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/intertabac-2017-micallef-cigars-enters-european-market\/","title":{"rendered":"InterTabac 2017: Micallef Cigars Enters European Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the new faces at this year\u2019s InterTabac is Micallef Cigars, a collaboration between Texan entrepreneur Al Micallef and the Gomez Sanchez family in Nicaragua that started in 2015. Since then they\u2019ve introduced twelve cigar lines in the US. Now it\u2019s time for Europe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince this is our first year we\u2019re here to introduce them all,\u201d Jason Upshaw, director of European sales (left on the photo), says.\u201d We\u2019ve had phenomenal success in the US and it came to the point where we were ready for a larger market.<\/p>\n<p>So they went to Big Smoke in Copenhagen at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was our first trip over here and as soon as we came back we started planning a European launch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the moment they are distributed in Germany by Kleinlagel, but the idea is of course to expand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are exploring the distribution possibilities and part of my trip is setting up logistics. It works so different in Europe. We\u2019re Texans and we can drive all day and still be in Texas. Here we pass through four, five countries, and each country has different rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright wp-image-17285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/micallef-cigars-jason-upshaw.jpg\" alt=\"Micallef Cigars Jason \" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/micallef-cigars-jason-upshaw.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/micallef-cigars-jason-upshaw-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/micallef-cigars-jason-upshaw-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the new faces at this year\u2019s InterTabac is Micallef Cigars, a collaboration between Texan entrepreneur Al Micallef and the Gomez Sanchez family in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,55,2812,44],"tags":[4327,4525,4524],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17283"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}