{"id":3062,"date":"2020-02-03T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2020-02-03T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:27:17","slug":"major-cigar-makers-are-exiting-the-industrys-biggest-trade-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3062","title":{"rendered":"Major Cigar Makers Are Exiting the Industry\u2019s Biggest Trade Show."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"post-meta__author\">By:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/robbreport.com\/author\/richard-carleton-hacker\/\">RICHARD CARLETON HACKER<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post-meta__author\">Posted on: FEBRUARY 3, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cracks are appearing in the well-rolled wrappers of the American cigar industry, the result of an eroding cohesiveness that once united the world\u2019s best cigar companies, insuring they remained \u201cfriendly competitors.\u201d The glue that held them together was their trade organization, originally established in 1933 as the RTDA (Retail Tobacco Dealer\u2019s Association), rebranded in 2007 as the International Premium Cigar &amp; Pipe Retailers (IPCPR), and last year, as the renamed Premium Cigar Association (PCA).<\/p>\n<div class=\"share-container\">\n<p class=\"p1\">The industry\u2019s annual trade show has historically been\u00a0<i>the<\/i>\u00a0major members-only gathering event for manufacturers and tobacconists alike to respectively display and purchase the newest pipes, cigars, accessories, and other tobacco-related items for the upcoming selling season. But there has been a growing dissatisfaction among the country\u2019s retail tobacconists and cigar companies\u2014both large and small\u2014with the way the regulatory body of the newly renamed PCA has been running things under the management of executive director Scott Pierce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Many of the largest premium cigar companies feel they are not being fairly represented by the PCA in relationship to the massive amounts of money they spend annually on the trade shows and related PCA costs. In addition, the PCA had proposed that the first day of the upcoming 2020 trade show be opened\u2014for the first time\u2014to consumers, under the banner of CigarCon. Dealers would not be allowed to purchase product during this time, which is traditionally the busiest buying day of the show. While consumers might rejoice, this would result in sales losses for the manufacturers and potentially expose some of the industry\u2019s trade secrets to the buying public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robbreport.com\/food-drink\/cigars\/cigar-makers-exit-pca-trade-show-2896590\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0RICHARD CARLETON HACKER\u00a0 Posted on: FEBRUARY 3, 2020 Cracks are appearing in the well-rolled wrappers of the American cigar industry, the result of an eroding cohesiveness that once united the world\u2019s best cigar companies, insuring they remained \u201cfriendly competitors.\u201d The glue that held them together was their trade organization, originally established in 1933 as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}