An Extra From Azan
Roberto Pelayo Duran has a long career in the cigar industry, partly in production and partly with the distribution organization of Cubatabaco, the Cuban state tobacco company. This distribution organization, Habanos S.A. formed in 1994, controls the promotion, distribution, and export of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide for Cubatabaco. In 2000, Altadis purchased a 50%...
Azan Delivers Value in Short Campana
Roberto Pelayo Duran has enjoyed a long career in the cigar industry, partly in production and partly with the distribution organization of Cubatabaco, the Cuban state tobacco company. This distribution organization, Habanos S.A. formed in 1994, controls the promotion, distribution, and export of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide for Cubatabaco. In 2000, the French/Spanish...
Ex NASA Employee Launches a Burning Rocket
What do you do when your Dominican Republic pro-basketball career is terminated by injuries, the MBA degree you earned has no pull into any particular direction and your position at NASA is no longer interesting enough? Why not jump into an old love/new career and try to make money at the same time. Do what Omar de Frias did – quit the office grind and start your own cigar company! And he...
Table 36 Needs an Ashtray
Table 36 launched their first cigar, called Fellowship, in 2012 (see our review entitled “Now Serving Table 36”). It was successful enough for Table 36 to add another blend to the line, this time called Integrity. If the next blend is called Strength, then the fellows at Table 36 are modeling themselves after the FIST clan, and the last brand would be called Teamwork. Table 36 uses the...
Now Serving Table 36
From what I can gather from the internet, several fellows in Missouri (the show me state) met monthly at table 36 in some St. Louis steakhouse and enjoyed cigars and each other’s company. After solving the world’s problems, as cigar smokers do when they gather together, the discussions turned to an easier subject, cigar tobacco blending, and soon thereafter Table 36 LLC was born. The...
