Avo Uvezian celebrates its 80th anniversary with AVO Cigars. He started early with his musical career. The music accompanied him throughout his life and he is now known as a talented composer as well as a cigar aficionado and producer
Nicotiana Exhibition Vienna: The Cultural History of Tobacco
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna’s Art History Museum, is marking the occasion of two anniversaries – 10 years of Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and 225 years of the Austria Tabak company (which has been part of JTI since 2007) – with an impressive exhibition organized in collaboration with JTI showing the evolution of tobacco consumption.
Imperial Tobacco PLC
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC is the number one producer of premium cigars in the world and Fernando Domínuez leads the Cigar Business Unit.
Padrón Cigars: A Matter of Family Honor
In 1964, with $ 600 in his pocket, José Orlando Padrón founded a small cigar manufactory in Miami to supply himself and fellow Cuban exiles. Today, one of the most important cigar brands on the planet bears his name.
Illusione: Cigars We Desire
Dion Giolito has set fire to the industry with one successful cigar brand after another. His cigars seem to have the ability to appeal to us and produce exactly the cigars we desire.
Angel Daniel Nuñez – The End of An Era
Angel Daniel Nuñez retires after 35 years with General Cigar.
Lennart Freeman: Swedish Match International
Swedish Match AB, number two in the international cigar market, is preparing for one of the greatest challenges in the 94-year history of the enterprise: the end of the US trade embargo against Cuba. Lennart R. Freeman has clearly-defined goals in mind.
Happy Birthday Alejandro!
Alejadro Robiana has smoked cigars for eighty years and turned ninety this year.
Andres Colding Friis – Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Denmark-based Scandinavian Tobacco Group is one of the tobacco industry’s major global players: it is the largest pipe tobacco producer in the world and foremost cigar manufacturer in Europe, third worldwide.
Don Alejandro Robaina: Proud to Be a Veguero
Don Alejandro Robaina will celebrate his 90th birthday next year. While he and his Finca are mercilessly commercialized, Pancho Cuba toils his fields quietly and prudently. Meanwhile, many people think that he is the best Cuban producer of wrapper tobacco.
100 Years of Heirichs’ Pipes
Peter Heinrichs, a lad from Cologne, an avowed Catholic and an extremely successful entrepreneur in the tobacco retail trade. And this year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Heinrichs’ Pipes by his grandfather Jakob in 1908.
Asia’s Largest Cigar Company: Pacific Cigar Company
Established in 1992 by Mr. David Tang, the Pacific Cigar Company (PCC) is the official Habanos S.A. distributor for the Asia-Pacific region. Geographically it is one of the largest, supplying Habanos cigars to 37 countries..
