TAMPA, FLA. - For about five years in the 1990s, the cigar industry luxuriated in a wild sales boom when celebrities and trendy twentysomethings decided that puffing imported, hand-rolled stogies was ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - A surge in sales of Cuba's legendary cigars in China helped manufacturer Habanos S.A.'s global revenue rise 12 percent to hit a record of around $500 million last year, the company ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Sales of Cuba's legendary cigars rose 5 percent last year to $445 million, defying stagnation in the global luxury goods market, manufacturer Habanos S.A. said on Monday at the ...

Suddenly, cigars are back on the tip of America’s tongue, and one Ft. Lauderdale company couldn’t be happier. “I think we’re seeing a rebirth of the cigar,” said Richard DiMeola, executive vice ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban cigar sales jumped 9 percent to $401 million in 2011 as spending on luxury items increased in countries with stronger economies, Cuban cigar executives said on Monday. They ...

After a 25-percent jump in sales last year, the cigar segment is coming on strong again in c-stores, thanks in part to manufacturer innovation and tax-weary cigarette smokers jumping to large filtered ...

A cigar can be either right or left sided, as any stripper will tell you. And at the Avanti Cigar Co. in Scranton, the strippers, spreaders, inspectresses, cutters and packers are making cigars, well, ...

The era in which Vice President Thomas Marshall proclaimed a good five-cent cigar a national necessity brought the U.S. cigar industry its greatest success: the 8,500,000 stogies sold in 1920 still ...