The two popular frontmarks are now packaged in individually designed platinum-colored metal tubes with an embossed Zino Platinum logo and a gold band. The Barrel is a 6 x 60 toro and the Chubby Especial is a 5 7/8 x 61 perfecto. Each of the Crown Series shapes comes packaged in a finely tooled metal box containing three cigars and custom black Zino Platinum matches, and the new tubos are also available individually.

Zino Platinum cigars all contain a filler of three Dominican and one Peruvian tobacco; 90% of the filler is highest-quality ligero. The binder is Connecticut-seed tobacco grown in the U.S.A., and the wrapper is a Connecticut-seed leaf grown in Ecuador. All the tobaccos are aged four to five years in the Dominican Republic. Zino Platinum Crown Series cigars are available to a limited number of select retailers nationwide.

The new introductions and updated look follow the completion of numerous market surveys and tests over the past few years. The moves were made to increase retail sales and customer satisfaction, affording retailers the opportunity to increase their share of the roll-your-own (RYO) market.

"The Rothschild shape offers veteran smokers a short, but robust-flavored smoke," says Bill Bock, president of Indianhead. "The 50 ring gauge takes advantage of the Dynamite five-nation blend, which delivers a deeply complex flavor and aroma that are surprisingly smooth for the power the cigar delivers."

Indianhead is now shipping all Dynamite cigars with bands. The novel packaging plays on the dynamite theme, consisting of rough-hewn, 24-count boxes with the words "Dynamite Power Packed" burned into the wood.

Indianhead is supporting retailers with a national consumer advertising and publicity campaign in the major cigar media.

The modern Quintero is made in Honduras, and features a Honduran Cubano wrapper, Nicaraguan binder, and a Honduran filler blend, resulting in a robust flavor profile that is aimed at smokers who enjoy rich, full-bodied cigars. Quintero is available in five shapes, all box-pressed: Corona (5 5/8 x 45, suggested retail $4.50); Belicoso (6 1/8 x 52, $6.00); Robusto (5 x 54, $5.00); Toro (6 x 56, $5.50); and Churchill (7 1/4 x 54, $6.00). Quintero cigars are packaged in boxes of 20.

Kingpin cigars feature a unique marketing concept (the World's Most Wanted Cigar!) and package graphics, and are offered in a variety of new flavors. The cigars are packed in 50-count POS self-display boxes.

Heaven cigars are rolled with top-quality Dominican long filler tobacco and binder with a Sumatran wrapper. "As with all our other Heaven cigars," says Phillips, "we add only the finest flavoring essences, using our secret 5-point process."

Each of Heaven's 12 flavored cigar varieties are offered in Corona (5 1/2 x 46) and Petite (5 x 30) sizes, packaged in standard 25-count cedar boxes and bundles. Suggested retail pricing for the Corona is $89 per box and $79 per bundle; the Petite is priced at $79 per box and $69 per bundle.

The packaging also invokes nostalgia, with a wooden box containing 10 cigars, wrapped in special paper depicting a photo of Zino Davidoff in front of his Geneva shop around 1940.