Building a successful brand is the key part of any product strategy, especially in ultra-competitive business markets like the cigar industry. After all, profits aren't made by factories, but by …
If you're looking for a draw-testing machine at Ernesto Perez-Carrillo's Tabacalera La Alianza factory in the Dominican Republic, you're wasting your time. "If you need a draw tester, than you …
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Next month, some of the best cigarmakers in the world will appear on stage in Las Vegas to discuss their craft during the Big Smoke Seminars. Tickets went quick—and the event is now sold out—but …
The 2015 Short Run, a small-batch cigar series from Ernesto Perez-Carrillo's EPC Cigar Co., is making its way to cigar stores now, weeks after the company released two formerly European-exclusive …
Now in its 22nd year, Cigar Aficionado’s Big Smoke Las Vegas spanned the course of two days and two nights, starting with a Friday night celebration full of food, spirits, camaraderie, and of course, …
I spent Monday afternoon in Santiago, Dominican Republic, with one of the true masters of the cigar business, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo. You know him from his years at La Gloria Cubana, first in Miami, …
Crowned Heads LLC, the Nashville, Tennessee, cigar company formed by former executives from C.A.O., has joined with Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, the veteran cigarmaker who once rolled La Gloria Cubana …
Some people can't get enough golf. Others sit and stare when they see a rare car. For Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, his obsession is tobacco. While this is a fondness found with many in the cigar industry, …
The Tobacconists’ Association of America is holding a conference and trade show in La Romana, Dominican Republic, featuring 21 special cigars made solely for the retail members of the organization.
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