Quality Importers Trading Company, a procurement company best known for its humidor and cigar accessory distribution, has acquired Palio\u0301. The acquisition will increase product inventory, improve pricing flexibility and introduce new customization options for Palio\u0301 products, including its signature guillotine-style cigar cutter.<\/p>\n
\u201cPalio\u0301 is known for its high-quality products and is a well-known name in the industry,\u201d<\/em> said Michael Giordano, president of Quality Importers. \u201cAs industry experts, we have exciting plans that will make the brand available to more consumers and introduce it to new markets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The acquisition will enable Quality Importers to produce customized Palio\u0301 products for cigar companies. In addition, Quality Importers plans to manufacture new varieties of the signature cutter including a metal body version and a version to better handle large ring gauge cigars. Despite the acquisition, Quality Importers will uphold Palio\u0301\u2019s \u201cNo Questions Asked\u201d warranty and replacement policy.<\/p>\n Palio\u0301\u2019s signature cutter, which utilizes one moving blade and one fixed blade, was issued a patent in 2000. In 2010, Cigar Journal (then known as European Cigar Journal) awarded Palio Cutters the Cigar Trophy in the category Best Accessory. In 2012, the company announced a single flame torch lighter. Palio\u0301 was owned by Mark Aub through Brothers of the Leaf, L.L.C. prior to the acquisition in August 2015.<\/p>\n This marks Quality Importers\u2019 11th acquisition. The company performed similar acquisitions of Cigar Caddy\u00ae and Stinky CigarTM and recently acquired the exclusive distribution rights of Ortega Premium Cigars in July 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quality Importers Trading Company, a procurement company best known for its humidor and cigar accessory distribution, has acquired Palio\u0301. The company plans to increase product inventory and to introduce new customization options for Palio\u0301 products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[177,49],"tags":[275,1298,1299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377"}],"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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}