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Weekly News (July 19, 2010)

Wow… IPCPR must be coming up as there is tons of news. The Torano Family took back control of the company from CAO, renaming it Toraño Family Cigar Company. They also announced three new cigars: Master by Carlos Toraño, Single Region and the Brigade. Bovedá and Humidipak also saw a change of distribution, now being [...]

News: Toraño Family Cigars (Update)

There will be a quite a bit of info regarding Toraño today, I’ll try to get the press release as fast as I can. The summary is this: Toraño will change its name to Toraño Family Cigars, take back distribution from CAO and introduce three new lines (the Master by Carlos Toraño, which we mentioned [...]

Weekly News (July 12, 2010)

Interesting news regarding Cuba… Despite reports of cutting sizes, Habanos S.A. is apparently turning better profit margins than last year. The explanation is the rise in new millionaires, part of which has to be helped by China’s surge in smoker’s clubs. In the “recent tobacco legislation” section of the news… The smoking laws continue to [...]

News: Final 601 Packaging

I previously showed you the pictures of the new bands of the 601 brand provided by Eddie Ortega on the the EO Forums, today he posted the new 601 packaging. This is the final packaging that will be on display in New Orleans at the 2010 IPCPR in August. Here is the finished design for [...]