{"id":5265,"date":"2019-01-25T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2019-01-25T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:50:38","slug":"press-release-emilio-cigars-merges-with-bltc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=5265","title":{"rendered":"Press Release &#8211; Emilio Cigars merges with BLTC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Emelio-1024x553.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Emelio-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Emelio-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Emelio-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Emelio.png 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> January 23, 2019 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Emilio Cigars merges with Black Label Trading Company <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Black Label Trading Company (BLTC) will take over the branding and marketing of Emilio Cigars.\u00c2\u00a0 As part of the merger, all cigar production will move to BLTC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own factory, Fabrica Oveja Negra in Esteli, Nicaragua. \u00c2\u00a0The Cavatina, LJZ, Papa Joe and Grimalkin cigar lines are already produced at Fabrica Oveja Negra.\u00c2\u00a0 Scott Zucca, owner of Emilio Cigars, will remain involved and continue distribution for both BLTC and Emilio Cigars through his distribution company L.J. Zucca Inc., a family owned company which has been distributing tobacco and other products since 1947. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"655\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BLT.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BLT.png 922w, https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BLT-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BLT-768x546.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> James Brown, owner of BLTC and Oveja Negra stated, &#8220;I&#8217;m very excited to take the Emilio brand to the next level. I believe this merger is the natural progression of things as we have been working closely with Scott Zucca over the past few years to expand the Emilio portfolio.\u00c2\u00a0 We have big plans for the brand and I think it will fit well with our customer base. \u00c2\u00a0AF1 and AF2 will be releasing from Oveja Negra in the spring with Suave to follow.\u00c2\u00a0 The Emilio portfolio gives me a lot of new blends to work with and as a cigar maker this is what keeps me inspired.&#8221; <br><br>Emilio Cigars are available for purchase through Boutiques Unified.For more information contact info@OvejaNegraCigars.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 23, 2019 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Emilio Cigars merges with Black Label Trading Company Black Label Trading Company (BLTC) will take over<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=5265\"> [Read the full story &#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cigar-industry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16MGD-1mV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5268,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions\/5268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}