Cigar makers fulfill lifelong goal: Exporting to homeland

(Scranton Times-Tribune) Fulfilling a lifelong goal of its immigrant forebears, the family that owns Avanti Cigar Co. has established its famous Parodi cigars in Italy.
Not only has the Scranton company's brand found a market on the peninsula, but sales are growing.
... It took the creation of the European Union, and then a complex agreement with a Swiss cigar company with a factory in Germany, to fulfill the dream of Avanti's founders, Anthony and Frank Suraci. The brothers left a poor village in Calabria in 1903 and 1906 and built the largest Italian-style cigar maker in the U.S. Continued