Archive for the ‘Alec Bradley Cigars’ Category

A Family Affair: The Start and Success of Alec Bradley Cigars

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Alec Bradley Cigars is a company started by Alan Rubin in 1996. Rubin has a lot in common with fellow cigar mogul Rocky Patel, as both Rubin and Patel were born in or around 1961. Both started their careers in the cigar industry in the late 1990s. Both based their companies in Florida (Bradley first [...]

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Spotlight: Alan Rubin Braves Cigar Boom Era

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Alan Rubin, creator of Alec Bradley Cigars, launched his cigar business in 1997, the year industry sales began to slow. He admits, “It couldn’t have been worse. Most of the people who started when I did are gone,” in a Cigar Aficionado interview. Unlike many of the major cigar manufacturers, Rubin didn’t come from a [...]

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Alec Bradley Cigars Uses Technology to Enhance Customer Experience

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

The Alec Bradley cigar company is the first in the industry to market their cigars in an innovative way using Quick Response (QR) codes. These state of the art 2 and 3-dimensional square bar codes are placed on Alec Bradley’s advertising and point-of-sale material. Consumers who own Smartphones with QR code readers can then use [...]

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