Packaging Decisions for LE's

[bigfunkyg]

Just finished watching the review of the the Bolivar Petit Belicoso and thought to myself, Hmmmm I might be intested in picking up a 10 box of that and then.....

Nope, sorry thanks for playing.

Is their any reasoning behind how the LE's get packaged, or is there a magic dice in the HSA Marketing Department that makes these decisions? Just to review:

2008

Cuaba Piramides - 10 Box

Montecristo Sublimes - 10 Box

Partagas Serie D No. 5 - 25 Box

2009

Bolivar Petit Belicoso - 25 Box

H. Upmann Magnum 48 - 25 Box

Romeo y Julietta Duke - 10 Box

2010

Montecristo Grand Edmundo - 25 Box

Partagas Serie D Especial - 10 Box

Trinidad Short Robusto T - 12 Box

Is it that difficult (or expensive) to produce two different package sizes of the LE's? How is it determined what gets put in a 10 box and 25 box?

Garrett

[mm12]

This years Monecristo is a 10 box not 25. The thought process is they think 10 (or 12 in the case of Trinidad) boxes will sell better so they want to do away with the 25 boxes for everything except the smallest of cigars.

They started in 05 with the Monte D, continued in 06 and 07 with the Cohiba Piramides and the Trinidad Ingenios. Now the 25 box is getting to be the exception rather than the rule for ELs.

[sblevit]

^ That's correct. If you go back to 2004 and beyond, the ELs were mostly in boxes of 25.