Coles of London is now the U.S. distributor of S.T.Dupont products for the tobacco segment.
It’s an extension to an existing relationship between the Paris-based luxury lighter and pen company and Charlotte-based Coles of London, which has been distributing the company’s products to pen and jewelry stores for nearly two years.
Mark Cole, president of Coles of London, told
halfwheel that the company aims to increase the brand’s presence in America. Some of that will be through an increased frequency of orders from S.T.Dupont, which will reduce the number of backorders. He also said that there are plans to create exclusive U.S. releases from S.T.Dupont as the company has done in the pen segment.
Last month, AGANORSA Leaf began shipping a new blend that was created to focus on Nicaraguan criollo tobaccos. That creation is the Rare Leaf Reserve, a cigar that incorporates a café wrapper grown in Jalapa covering dual criollo 98 binders taken from two different farms, as well as a filler made up of both criollo 98 and corojo 99.