InterTabac 2016 in Dortmund, Germany

[laficion]

Hi all,

Just want to know how you feel about InterTabac  in Dortmund, Germany and the N.C.'s breakthrough into Europe. Is HABANOS S.A.

loseing grounds in Europe because of its incompetence in todays world or not ? I just would like to have your opinion.

Thank you all.

Guy 

[Fugu]

Can't give you a qualified answer to that, Guy. All I do observe is, NCs have been around for years (decades), I wouldn't actually speak of a breakthrough from my personal perception. But for objective figures you'd surely have to get in touch with merchants/distributors on sales volumes, I think. For what it's worth, in my home B&M the NC-humi is of the same size as the CC one, for years. I am buying exclusively from one of them - for years....  

[Jimmy_jack]

It's amazing the two worlds of cigars. On one hand, USA...exclusively NC. 85% of which are crap blends meant to be "spice/pepper bombs"  because that's what's in now. For the most part we don't know any better because many of us have never had CC. Some NC brands have as many as 10-12 brands under their name. 

Then, you have the rest of the world. They get to choose between CC and NC. The concept that there is even a choice to be made is confounding to me.