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Macanudo Emissary France Ships to Retailers
Macanudo is expanding its Emissary line with a new cigar blended with rare tobacco grown near Bordeaux, France. The Emissary France features tobacco cultivated in the Mugron...
New Montecristo White Series Diadema Shipping in April
Altadis U.S.A. will release a new addition to its Montecristo White Series next month. The company has announced the upcoming release of the Montecristo White Series Diadema, a...
Edward Bello Named CEO of Plasencia Cigars
Plasencia Cigars has a new chief executive officer. In a press release, the company announced that Edward (Ed) Bello would be joining the company as the new CEO, effective April...
Cohiba Readies Serie M Reserva Azul for Release
Cohiba's Serie M collection is expanding with the addition of the Reserva Azul, a small-batch cigar handcrafted at El Titan de Bronze in Little Havana, Miami. In a press release,...
Crowned Heads Announces Limited Edition Juárez Bulldozer LE 2025
The first limited-edition Juárez release from Crowned Heads in three years is coming to store shelves this March. The Juárez Bulldozer LE 2025 is a modified blend from the...
Hiram & Solomon Releases the High Twelve
Hiram & Solomon Cigars is expanding its Grand Lodge Series with the addition of High Twelve, a limited-edition release dedicated to honoring M.W. J. Eugene Margroff, the...
United Cigars’s Gold Star Goes into Regular Production
United Cigars is bringing back its Gold Star brand as a line extension. The Gold Star line debuted in 1995 and was dormant until 2024, when a limited-edition Gold Star was...
New M by Macanudo Cigars Announced
Macanudo Cigars is revisiting its M by Macanudo line with three new releases: the M by Macanudo Irish Cream, Vanilla Bourbon, and Honey. These cigars expand the M by Macanudo...
Emanuele Uccellini Named New Head of Davidoff of Geneva USA
Oettinger Davidoff has named a new leader for its Davidoff of USA division. In a press release, the company announced hiring Emanuele Uccellini as its new general manager and...
Rob Maneson Out at LOFB
League of Fat Bastards (LOFB) has announced the departure of Rob Maneson, who served as the company's president of the U.S.A. and Americas. Maneson helped the company improve its...
Black Label Trading Co. Ships Super Deluxe
Black Label Trading Company (BTLC) ships Super Deluxe to select retailers. This limited release is handcrafted in Estelí, Nicaragua, at Fabrica Oveja Negra. This is the second...
Ferio Tego Adds Canada Distribution
Ferio Tego is now available in Canada due to a new distribution partnership with Kretek International Canada. This is the premium cigar brand's third international expansion,...
Artesano Del Tobacco Announces El Pulpo The Eel
Artesano Del Tobacco’s El Pulpo cigar line is growing with the addition of the recently announced El Pulpo Lancero aka The Eel. This pigtail lancer measures 7 x 38 and will begin...
Carmelo Anthony and Kingmakers Team Up for Versa
Carmelo Anthony, a former professional basketball player and 10-time NBA All-Star, is entering the world of premium cigars with the help of Kingmakers Cigars. In its latest...
Jaime-Flórez Estrada Joins Global Premium Cigars
Global Premium Cigars, makers of 1502 cigars, has announced the addition of Jaime Flórez-Estrada to its team. Flórez-Estrada, whose previous roles in the cigar industry included...
Five Questions: Jim Young, Interim CEO/Board Member, Plasencia Cigars
Welcome back to the industry. What have you been doing since leaving Davidoff?My wife and I left Switzerland and returned to the U.S. in the spring of 2022. We have a home on...
Accessory Selling 101
Michael Giordano, CEO and founder of Quality Importers, shares his insightsfor retailers looking to increase accessory sales and humidors. PCA Magazine: What is one surefire way...
The No Cell Zone
I am expecting this article to be the most cathartic (for me) and most polarizing (for you) one I have penned to date. Hello, my name is Josh and I am addicted to my mobile...
Rocky Mountain Smoke: Ken Weinheimer and Rocky Mountain Liquor
Ken Weinheimer is a self-effacing and soft-spoken man. To converse with him you would never guess that he had created the largest walk-in cigar humidor in the state of Montana,...
Founders Cigars: Creating Community, American-style
Founders Cigar Company was established during the early days of the COVID pandemic when people everywhere were just trying to find their footing. Stores were closing, or limited...
Black Star Line Cigars: Blending Cigars, Culture and History
Aric Bey never considered becoming a firefighter. Despite his uncle serving in the Chicago Fire Department, and his father encouraging him to apply, Bey had other plans: “I was a...
Tobacconists Look Ahead to 2024
Are brick & mortar shops planning big changes? We phoned up tobacco retailers around the country—businesses on the current PCA membership list (some old, some new)—and asked...
PCA Hires new Program Manager: Meet Maria Cervantes
PCA has hired Maria Cervantes as program manager. Maria will oversee the fulfillment of larger organizational goals for the association and coordinate projects that involve...
2023 Premium Cigar Association Year in Review
This past year was another terrific year in which we were able to utilize the momentum of the tremendous 2022 to propel our organization and the industry to a whole new level. As...