{"id":38747,"date":"2021-01-13T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T09:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=38747"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T09:20:53","slug":"rocky-patel-cigars-officially-arrive-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/rocky-patel-cigars-officially-arrive-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Patel Cigars officially arrive in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s cigar merchant Canteros, the country\u2019s sole importer and retailer of new-world cigars, has received its first official Rocky Patel Cigars shipment direct from the cigar maker in Central America. Previously Grant Ovenden\u2019s Canteros operation used US-based wholesalers for Rocky Patel Cigars stock.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facing restricted retailing conditions and high taxes makes Canteros\u2019 first delivery of 140 boxes of Rocky Patel Cigars an achievement. The 140 box-shipment represents the breadth and width of Rocky Patel Cigars, featuring<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>over 12 lines including the Cigar Smoking World Championship cigar, the Vintage 2003 Cameroon, The Edge Corojo, Connecticut, Habano (Nicaragua) and Maduro, and Liberation by Hamlet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some industries 2020 turned into the boom-times and I am excited to share that this was no exception at Canteros New Zealand. We ended 2020 with triple-digit growth for the year and December set all new records in terms of sales, order volume and importation of product,\u201d said Ovenden.<\/p>\n<p>Ovenden also shares that construction is advancing well on Canteros\u2019 new 2,500 sq. foot purpose-built distribution center in Christchurch, New Zealand. \u201cWe have signed-off on the Spanish cedar kitset and humidification system to fit out our 300 sq. foot walk-in humidor that will be the heart of our operations,\u201d said Ovenden. \u201cThis will allow us to increase on-hand cigar inventory significantly this year and ensure we can keep a continual supply of core cigar lines.\u201d The distribution center is scheduled to open in March 2021.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CANTEROS Limited \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s Premium Cigar Distributor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canteros.nz\">www.canteros.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s cigar merchant Canteros, the country\u2019s sole importer and retailer of new-world cigars, has received its first official Rocky Patel Cigars shipment direct from the cigar maker in Central America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":38756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[177,44],"tags":[2679,639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38747"}],"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=38747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}