Retailers and Industry Veteran Form Sindicato Cigar



Discounts? Piffle!

(Cigar Aficionado) A group of high-profile cigar retailers, including the former president of the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association, have joined forces to create Sindicato Cigar Group LLC, and this week they named a 37-year veteran of one of the world’s largest cigar companies to run the operation.

Sindicato has been created by tobacconists to create national cigar brands. The company says the brands it releases will be protected from discounters, and added that brands it sells won’t be closed out, something that sometimes happens to a cigar brand that has fallen out of favor with consumers and retailers. Continued