Twelve Of The Biggest Deals in the Handmade Cigar Industry

(Cigar Aficionado) Britain’s Imperial Brands PLC put its premium cigar unit up for sale in April, a company that will likely sell for billions of dollars. The move inspired us to look through our records, digging through our archived copies of Cigar Insider, searching our website and flipping through the pages of Cigar Aficionado for other major acquisitions in the cigar industry that have happened in the past. Here are the biggest deals in the handmade cigar business, listed in ascending order of value, from $40 million to more than $20 billion. Continued