Phillips & King/Ventura Cigar Co. Pull Out of PCA 2020
Phillips & King and Ventura Cigar Co., both owned by Kretek International, will not be exhibiting at the 2020 PCA Convention & Trade Show. The…
Platinum Nova Postpones Session Line, Changing Name (Update)
Yesterday, Platinum Nova Cigars announced a new line called Session, scheduled to debut at next week’s Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) trade show. As it turns…
Arturo Fuente Plans Hemingway, OpusX ForbiddenX Gift Sets for PCA 2020
Arturo Fuente will offer retailers who attend this year’s PCA Trade Show & Convention the opportunity to purchase what the company is describing as eight…
PCA 2020: The Reckoning is Here
The moment of reckoning has arrived. On Friday, Altadis U.S.A., Davidoff of Geneva USA, Drew Estate and General Cigar Co.—likely the four largest companies in…
Altadis, Davidoff, Drew Estate & General Not Exhibiting at PCA 2020 Trade Show (Update)
Four of the largest cigar companies have announced they will not be exhibiting at the upcoming 2020 PCA Trade Show & Convention, formerly known as…
Ten Questions for 2020
Welcome to the 10th version of Ten Questions. In December 2009, I decided to write an editorial that previewed some of the big topics for the following…
Sinistro’s Never Walk Alone Soft Launching This Week
Sinistro Cigars is releasing a limited amount of its newest cigar line this week, called Never Walk Alone. The cigar is a toro vitola that…
PCA Cancels CigarCon 2020, Planned Consumer Day for IPCPR Trade Show
CigarCon 2020 will not happen. The Premium Cigar Association (PCA), formerly IPCPR, has announced that the controversial consumer day for its annual trade show will…
Poll: 59 Percent of Exhibitors Have Lost Faith in IPCPR/PCA’s Leadership
Over half of the companies surveyed by halfwheel have indicated they do not have faith in the leadership of the IPCPR/PCA to operate and grow the…
Premium Cigar Association (PCA), CigarCon Formally Announced
The IPCPR is officially the PCA and consumers will be coming to the trade show floor in 2020. As we reported last week, the International…
IPCPR Rebranding to Premium Cigar Association, Consumer Day Planned for 2020 Trade Show
Next week, the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers’ Association (IPCPR) will announce major changes for the cigar industry’s largest and oldest trade group, and…
