News: Perdomo Announces Price Increase

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Last week, Perdomo began informing retailers that it would be the latest company to raise prices due to manufacturing costs, specifically the increasing costs of labor in Nicaragua. Perdomo famously refrained from raising prices after SCHIP and went so far as to lower prices on specific frontmarks as a protest to the tax, a move [...]

Press Release: Perdomo 20th Anniversary Cigar Brand to Debut at IPCPR

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July 24, 2012 (Miami, FL) — Tabacalera Perdomo is proud to release the new and highly anticipated Perdomo 20th Anniversary cigar brand at the IPCPR Trade Show in Orlando, Florida on August 2 – 6, 2012. The Perdomo 20th Anniversary brand celebrates the company’s twenty years of dedication to tradition, quality, and excellence as a tobacco grower [...]

Weekly News (January 30, 2012)

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Editor’s Note: And it was supposed to be a slow week in the cigar world. What seemed destined to be a rather quiet week turned into the busiest of the year. Familiar readers of the weekly news will see that it is back to somewhat of a familiar form. Cabaiguan WCD 120 REDUX — The [...]

News: Price Increase Coming to Some Perdomo Cigars

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Perdomo Cigars has confirmed that a price increase will be coming to several of their lines in the coming weeks, joining Oliva, General Cigar Co., Altadis USA and Davidoff in taking price increases. Daniel Colón, Director of Marketing & Graphic Design for Perdomo confirmed that the company will be taking an increase of 10 – 12.5 [...]

Weekly News (July 11, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: And here we are. One week out from the IPCPR trade show and things are reaching their peak. Last week saw a host of new product announcements and this week is likely to be no different. Later this week a massive post outlining what to expect at IPCPR should be up, I’d estimate [...]

Weekly News (June 6, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: On Friday, the IPCPR sent out the much awaited “rules” for the bloggers. It was met with quite a host of criticisms, but in the end, I think it can only be viewed as a step in the right direction. There were a host of difficulties involved with trying to create a solution [...]

Weekly News (May 9, 2011)

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I could refer to a lot of points of the year as “the calm before the storm.” But, for the month of May that will be the motto. Slowly over the course of the next few weeks details will begin to emerge about the newest releases for the 2011 IPCPR show in Las Vegas,

Weekly News (February 21, 2011)

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At the end of each Monday, I wonder what cigar news we could possibly have for next week, each week we seem to deliver. It’s Cuba’s most popular cigar week as the XIII Festival del Habano takes place, including the much-anticipated debuts of the Montecristo Gran Reserva and the Cohiba 1966; in addition, a few [...]

Weekly News (January 17, 2011)

StogieReview decided that it would become the place to break all news regarding cigar shops closing up. First, Walt White informed us that Demuth Tobacco Shop, the country’s oldest cigar shop (founded in 1770), was not just temporarily closing, but shutting down for good. A few days later Jerry Cruz announced that his home shop, [...]

Weekly News (August 2, 2010)

It’s only a week before IPCPR and the news just keeps rolling in. Five major cigar announcements this week: I previewed Pete Johnson’s IPCPR offerings, yes go crazy my Tatuaje-loving friends The Padrón Family Reserve No. 46 was announced on something besides Twitter I posted a proposed list of the Habanos S.A. RE 2011 releases [...]