{"id":22889,"date":"2018-09-30T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=22889"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T09:05:53","slug":"cigraal-begins-distribution-of-ashton-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/cigraal-begins-distribution-of-ashton-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigraal Begins Distribution Of Ashton In Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong-based cigar distributors Cigraal, headed by Eric Piras, has announced a distribution deal with Ashton Cigars for China and will become their agent in the wider Asia-Pacific market. The full export portfolio will be available to Cigraal, and Asia-based cigar consumers can expect Ashton\u2019s presence to transition smoothly under the new agreement. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ashton has been present in Asia for a long time, but had no deep distribution, said Robert Levin President of Ashton, at this year\u2019s InterTabac. \u201cThrough Cigraal, Eric will represent Ashton in all the countries in Asia we want to enter. Ashton has undertaken a lot of consolidation across the world, including Asia and I feel it is great to deal with a smaller company where the brand won\u2019t get lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited to represent the brand,\u201d said Eric Piras. \u201cI\u2019m pleased to be working closely together with Robert and Chip Goldeen; it\u2019s going to be a successful partnership. Ashton is recognised as a beautiful brand across Asia, while the VSG line particularly has a very good reputation and following.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured from left to right: Chip Goldeen, Eric Piras, Meera Levin, Robert Levin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ashton Cigars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ashtoncigar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ashtoncigar.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Cigraal Cigar Distribution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cigraal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cigraal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong-based cigar distributors Cigraal, headed by Eric Piras, has announced a distribution deal with Ashton Cigars for China and will become their agent in the wider Asia-Pacific market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":22890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[177,49,2808,2796],"tags":[3127,1691,2870,2411,5403,5434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889"}],"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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}