There is no strict set of guidelines as to what makes a company rise to the level of being deserving of this award; it is not based on sales, number of cigars produced, having the best cigar of the year or trade show booth space. Rather, the one constant that we look for is finding the company that truly captured our attention over the past 12 months. It’s a combination of above-average releases, company growth and development, increased awareness by consumers and other intangibles that come together to show that a company is in a much better position than it was this time last year. While numerous companies had a successful 2014, none seemed to do it in the way the Crowned Heads did. The team of Jon Huber and Mike Conder added a new regular production line in Jericho Hill and an impressive list of limited editions, headlined by Las Calaveras, for which Crowned Heads partnered with My Father Cigars. Then it released The Angel’s Anvil, their first exclusive for the Tobacconists’ Association of America, a group of some of the most prominent retailers in the country. It also had the Mason-Dixon Project, a two-cigar project that had a Northern Edition ...
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