2020 Awards: Company of the Year There are no specific qualifications to be considered for this award. Typically, it seems like the award is given to the company who had the most “impressive” year, sometimes it ends up more as a most improved award. Usually, that starts with considering whether a company really stood out for the new cigars it put out in a given year. This year, it doesn’t seem like anyone stood out in that regard. Nor was there a company that had some sort of revolutionary rebrand in 2020. It was 2020: most were just trying to figure out how to operate given the new complications and most of the big plans that companies had were thrown out the window.