Brands to be deleted by Habanos

[Johnny Thunder]

Id be sad to see the Dippys go completely, I'm with Marc they're a favourite of mine.

I smoke my first one last night and really enjoyed it. I will be buying more.

[Nick2021]

Brands to be deleted by Habanos

Oh dear.... That's some list!
Time to stock up on:

Sancho Panza Belicosos
SLR Serie A
VR Famosos
SC La Fuerza

I LOVE 3/4 of those cigars. SP Belis are a great "under the radar" stick

[Stevieboy]

Which one doesn't ring your bell Nick??

[Simon Bolivar]

Photo of deleted list

Guess I should have taken & added this photo at the beginning of this thread. These deletion may or may not occur in the immediate future or in the next couple of years but Mr Franks didn't make it up or just spreading rumours.

[RDBM]

I really hope we're not going so see the streamlining of brands in order to bulk up production of the "more popular" names at the expense of the more niche style cigar as seems to be happening with the smaller ring gauge smokes.

[Ryan]

Guess I should have taken & added this photo at the beginning of this thread. These deletion may or may not occur in the immediate future or in the next couple of years but Mr Franks didn't make it up or just spreading rumours.

Simon, I never doubted that you saw that letter, but that's a letter from CubaCigar ( the Benelux distributor) letting their retailers know that those brands will be "dropped from their assortment".
That's quite a different thing to Habanos "deleting those brands".
That letter says nothing at all about deleting any brands. Nor is it from Habanos.
Distributors drop products and brands all the time. I can't buy a Por Larranaga petit corona younger than 1985 in the shop down the road from me.
I suppose, regarding Mr Franks, he will no longer have access to those brands, if CubaCigar makes good on their promise.
As far as consumers go, that change will only affect those who only buy their cigars from retailers who only buy their stock from CubaCigar.

[Smallclub]

enkele merken zullen op termijn volledig verdwijnen uit ons assortiment : some brands will eventually disappear completely from our range.

That's communication from a distributor to his resellers; nothing to do with "deletions"…

[Simon Bolivar]

OK, Cheers Andy & SmallClub, obviously a translation problem, good to hear it's not as bad as I understood it; will just have to look further afield for the brands mentioned. Still the more suppliers that delete these brands, the more likely I would imagine the actual dropping of brands due to lack of sales.

[Stevieboy]

Still the more suppliers that delete these brands, the more likely I would imagine the actual dropping of brands due to lack of sales.

Hmmm...quite worrying if that becomes a trend

[Edamski]

Quiet you!
Hello, Adam

Whaddup home dog!

[tippexx]

it makes fiscal sense to slim down the range but up the numbers produced.

Wouldn't work CJ. As I understand it, all the blends for all the vitola for all the marque are dedicated. You can't just take tobacco from field formally used for Fonseca and make Monte 2s out of it.

If Habanos delete something they then have to find a 'new' use for the tobacco.

I can't imagine any catastrophic deletion of Marque is envisaged.

[cj121]

That wasn't my inference Arf. It was simply in Habanos possibly making larger amounts of a smaller range in the future

[tippexx]

That wasn't my inference Arf. It was simply in Habanos possibly making larger amounts of a smaller range in the future

I understand what you are saying, but I don't think it can be done CJ. If as I believe the fields are dedicated, then they are already for example making as many Monte 4 as they can. To make more Monte 4, and to keep them reasonably true to Monte 4, they would need to delete another Monte vitola. Which I think has been happening with production vitola to support the Limitada program.

[EdBlackadder]

I'm going to miss the SLR and Sancho Panzas, wonder what we'll get instead...

[cj121]

I understand what you are saying, but I don't think it can be done CJ. If as I believe the fields are dedicated, then they are already for example making as many Monte 4 as they can. To make more Monte 4, and to keep them reasonably true to Monte 4, they would need to delete another Monte vitola. Which I think has been happening with production vitola to support the Limitada program.

I think we're saying the same thing, but just a few fields apart Arf