Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Joya de Nicaragua is known for making Nicaraguan puros — cigars that make use of binders, fillers, and wrappers from that country only. [ citation needed ] The brand is distributed in the United States by Drew Estate, a country which in 2009 accounted for approximately 45% of the company's global sales.
Famous Smoke Shop is one of the largest cigar mail order businesses in the United States. [1] [2] [3] The company was formed in October, 1939 in Midtown Manhattan as a cigar and gift shop. In 2000, increasing rents and taxes [4] forced the company to move its operations to Easton, Pennsylvania, [5] a state that currently imposes no cigar tax. [6]
The first cigars by Alec Bradley were known as "Bogey's Stogies" and were designed to be sold through golf pro shops for golfers to smoke on the course. Manufactured from 1997 to 1999 — the deepest years of the "cigar bust" which followed the faddish cigar boom of the 1990s — Bogey's Stogies proved an unprofitable venture. [1]
800-JR Cigar, Inc., more commonly known as JR Cigar or JRCigars.com, is one of the largest wholesalers and retailers of cigars, ...
Piloto Cigars Inc. is a private company that produces the Padrón cigar brand from Nicaragua. Commonly known as Padrón Cigars , the company was founded in September 8, 1964, [ 1 ] in Miami , Florida , by Cuba n-native José Orlando Padrón.
Corojo is a type of tobacco used primarily in the making of cigars, originally grown in the Vuelta Abajo region of Cuba. Corojo was originally developed and grown by Diego Rodriguez at his farm or vega, Santa Ines del Corojo. It was used as a wrapper extensively for many years on Cuban cigars, but its susceptibility to various diseases, blue ...
In 1997, General Cigar acquired Villazon, a company marketing non-Cuban versions of the leading Cuban cigar brands Punch and Hoyo de Monterrey. [4] In 2005, Swedish Match acquired General Cigar. [5] In 2010, Swedish Match merged its premium cigars into Scandinavian Tobacco Group. [6] In 2016, Swedish Match sold its shares of General Cigar back ...
Cigar Aficionado magazine debuted in the fall of 1992, launched in New York City by Marvin R. Shanken, longtime publisher of Wine Spectator magazine. Prior to launching the publication, Shanken engaged in extensive market research, collecting more than 1,300 four-page surveys of cigar smokers which detailed their occupation, income, net worth, travel tendencies, as well as their drinking and ...