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Review: Cohiba Pirámides (EL 2006)

There were two limited editions made in 2006, the year of Cohiba’s 40th anniversary. One is the legendary Behike, the other was the Edición Limitada Pirámides, the fourth release for the brand since the series was introduced in 2000. Each Edición Limitada features a limited number of cigars produced using aged tobacco in sizes that [...]

News: Cohiba Pirámides Extra Now Available in Aluminum Tubes

Distributors around the world are reporting receipt of Cohiba Pirámides Extra in a new format – a three-pack of aluminum tubes. The Cohiba Pirámides Extra was announced in September 2012 and were initially released in 10-count boite nature boxes. The vitola became the first regular production figurado in the Línea Clásica of the Cohiba marca. The [...]

Press Release: General Cigar Prevails over Cubatabaco in Trademark Dispute

March 28, 2013 (Richmond, Va.) — General Cigar was recently vindicated by the courts again in the nearly 16 year old legal battle waged by Cubatabaco to determine rightful ownership of the Cohiba® trademark in the United States. After losing its legal battle in the Second Circuit, Cubatabaco continued to exhaust all available legal channels [...]

News: Cohiba ‘Red Dot’ Adding Gigante Vitola

General Cigar Company’s Cohiba line of cigars will be adding a 6 x 60 Gigante size to its portfolio in March, according to a source familiar with the information. The news comes nearly a year after it was announced that two other lines in General’s portfolio, the Macanudo Café and Macanudo Maduro, would be adding [...]

Press Release: Habanos SA Releases Selección Petit Robustos at TFWA Exhibition in Cannes

October 23, 2012 (Havana) — Habanos, SA will attend the 26th Tax Free World Association Exhibition to be held from 22 to 26 October 2012. The event, which will open in Cannes on Monday 22 October, is a mandatory appointment in the calendar of the duty free industry which attracts thousands of visitors during the week, including operators, [...]

Press Release: OMAS Introduces Stationery Items Devoted to Cohiba

September 30, 2012 (Havana, Cuba) — OMAS and HABANOS S.A. very recently presented the Limited Edition Stationery Item Collection dedicated to Cohiba as part of a brand diversification strategy. This Edicion Limitada collection, part of the OMAS series entitled “Edición Limitada Mejor Aroma Internacional”, has been designed in collaboration with Habanos S.A. and reflects OMAS’s [...]

Weekly News (September 17, 2012)

Editor’s Note: It was a bit quiet during the latter half of the week, that was my fault. I was in Dortmund, Germany for the Inter-tabac trade show and largely without internet. There wasn’t a whole lot of new products, although there was a few, but more on that later in the week. Oliva Viejo [...]

Press Release: Cohiba Pirámides Extra is the First Figurado to Become Part of Cohiba’s Permanent Range

September 10, 2012 — Cohiba is the Habanos flagship, and the most prestigious brand in the tobacco world. The brand was created in 1966, and was solely available as gifts for heads of state and visiting diplomats, and of course, for President Fidel Castro for many years. Since then, its production has taken place in [...]

IPCPR 2012: General Cigar Co.

For General Cigar Co., IPCPR 2012 was about FOUNDRY and FOUNDRY. Or so was the case outside of the large booth of the company that parents CAO, Cohiba, Hoyo de Monterrcey, La Gloria Cubana, Macanudo, Partagas, Punch and others where all anyone wanted to talk about was the center of the General booth. Inside there [...]

Press Release: Cohiba Edición Diamante

Luxury cigar smokers will soon have the chance to own one of the premium cigar category’s most treasured blends, thanks to the debut of two new frontmarks from the coveted Cohiba Edición Diamante collection. Ed Lahmann, senior brand manager for Cohiba remarked, “Cohiba Edición Diamante made a big splash at the 2011 IPCPR show. Discriminating [...]