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News: Oliva Puts New Master Blends 3, Serie G & Serie V Sizes in Event Sampler

Oliva will be offering a new event sampler at select events later this year—all made up of specific cigars that have never been offered for sale previously. While the details are still being worked out, the sampler will debut sometime after the IPCPR show in August at certain, presumably larger, events. Like the Studio Tobac [...]

Press Release: Ramon Puig Guayabera Brand Choses Oliva Cigar Co. as Official Cigar Partner for 40 Year Anniversary Celebration

July 10, 2012 (Miami, FL) — This month marks the 40 year anniversary of the Ramon Puig Guayabera brand here in South Florida which was celebrated in grand style with cigar sponsor Oliva Cigar co. The King of the Guayabera legacy continues with his son Louis Puig. The reputable and world famous guayabera brand not [...]

News: Oliva Announces Price Increase

Oliva Cigar Company has informed retailers that a price increase will take effect February 1, 2012, on all premium cigars, which includes the NUb and Cain brands under the STUDIO TOBAC banner. This is the second year in a row Oliva has raised prices on February 1. Last year they announced a 5% price increase [...]

IPCPR 2011: Oliva Cigar Co.

Publicly, the biggest news regarding Oliva and the 2011 IPCPR was the court order that prevented former employee Sam Leccia from attending the trade show. Despite a fairly one-sided discussion on various online format, numbers don’t lie and Oliva wasn’t really worrying about a Miami courtroom. An Oliva employee was trying to explain just how [...]

Weekly News (July 18, 2011)

Editor’s Note: This might upset some people. Here it is, the Weekly News, with little of the news most probably care about. The idea of trying to do a news post that captures ALL of IPCPR accurately is comical to say the least, so a milder form of the news. After the jump, all the [...]

Weekly News (June 13, 2011)

  Editor’s Note: It was seemingly on track to be a much quieter week for cigar news (in quantity it still is), and then the never-ending saga between Oliva Cigar Co. and Sam Leccia decided to show itself again. The issue is over a non-compete clause, a somewhat common thing in this industry. Sam joins [...]

News: Cain F Lanceros to Ship in October (Exclusive)

Word out of Oliva is that the Cain F Lancero (currently offered only as part of various Studio Tobac samplers) will ship in October. Retailers will be offered the opportunity to pre-order the cigar in July at the IPCPR show, with the boxes of ten shipping in October. While this won’t be a limited edition [...]

News: Oliva Pursues Legal Action Against Sam Leccia (Exclusive)

Following the announcement of the Sam Leccia Cigar Co., Oliva Cigar Co. has announced their legal plans in regards to Sam’s plans. Oliva Cigar Co. is currently in litigation with Sam Leccia. Sam Leccia signed a five-year non-compete. No further comments at this time. In interviews Sam has avoided discussing Oliva, focusing on his future [...]

News: Oliva Connecticut Reserve Petite Corona & Tubos

A while back (here, to be specific), I posted a host of information about the happenings of Oliva. Somewhere bigger news, Cain Daytona pricelist/sizes and others were a bit less important, some reposting of things that were only found on Oliva’s NUb Live forum. Most of what was posted has already gone into effect (Cain [...]

Weekly News (May 30, 2011)

Editor’s Note: Outside of the Monday news, this site has seen various formats in its news… For the next week, there will be at least a trial in more coverage to all stories, not just your Viaje and Tatuaje new releases. Feedback is always appreciated. Oh yeah, Lancero50 is in full swing, in case you [...]