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Oct./Nov. 2001 |
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Retail Analysis:
Tobacco Shops Adjusting and Staying Alive By Bob Ashley What it does it take to compete and survive in today's retail cigar market? The answers, according to many retailers, are the same as they always were, but with a new twist. |
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Merchandise Focus:
Xikar Defines Cutting Edge By Dale Scott When cigar enthusiast Kurt Van Keppel set out to build a better cutter, little did he know his company's funky-looking, practically addictive device would breath fresh air into a stagnant category and emerge as a new career. |
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Taxation Issues:
Oregon Retailer Wins Cigar Tax Rollback By Joseph Finora An Oregon cigar shop fought to bring cigar sales back to local retailers. Exorbitant taxes had largely driven box sales to Internet and mail-order companies, depriving the state of the very taxes it thought it was collecting. |
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Retailer and Tobacco Industry News
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Esteli Cigar Pushes for Major Expansion
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Arango Expands Warehouse Space by 45%
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Canada's Rothmans Inc. to Acquire Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co.
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Grand Opening of New Tabacalera Perdomo Headquarters
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German Inter-Tabac Show Maintains Size
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Swedish Match Restructures Cigar Operations
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Quarterly Losses Grow at Grand Havana
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Altadis H1 Earnings up 13%
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Star Scientific Sees Net Income up 56%
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Net Sales Surge 406% at Havana Group
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Synergy Authorizes Stock Repurchase
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General Cigar Closes Connecticut Offices
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