The talk of the 2013 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show was a new company called Sindicato. Over 40 of the country’s top retailers formed a new company called Sindicato. They hired Jim Colucci who previously ran Altadis U.S.A. to lead the new company with the aim of disrupting the cigar market. One of the big mission statements was that the cigars the company sold would never be heavily discounted and there seemed to be undertones that it wanted to try to do things differently than other cigar companies. I think it’s fair to say Sindicato has failed to live up to expectations, some of which were artificially raised just to show much the company was talked about during those four summer days in Las Vegas. The company showed off three lines to start with: Hex, a reasonably-priced medium-bodied line; Affinity, something that seemed marketed at squarely taking on the very popular Montecristo White, and Casa Bella, a mixed filler cigar. Along with those three lines, plans were also ,laid out for the company’s flagship Sindicato line. It might be challenging for many readers of this site to understand, but manufacturers were legitimately up in arms about Sindicato during the trade ...
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