The 2022 PCA Tradeshow comes at a time when the country is seeing some of its worst inflation, retailers are tightening the reigns and sales are beginning to slow. But we will weather the storm together. It’s an ideal time for us to collaborate and streamline so that we can move beyond the status quo and rebuild a bigger, brighter future – together.
Patrick Potter of TABAC Trading Co & The Continental Cigar Club, began his journey in this industry in 2015 with the decision to start his own cigar brand. He navigated the hurdles of the FDA pre-market applications and was successful in securing his brand with exemptions of substantial equivalence. Later in 2020, he embarked on a dream to redesign and rebrand his grandfather’s co-ownership of Tinder Box International, as The Continental Cigar Club. Cigar Aficionado did a recent review of the club and its received high marks. https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/continental-cigar-club-west-los-angeles after this article Patrick has developed a pitch deck for interested franchisees and investors which can be found on a dedicated website www.cigarsandcivility.com
The Limitless Cigar
In 2020 Patrick began developing a cutting edge cigar product that would infuse for a lack of better words, wellness and cigar enjoyment in one. He dubbed it LIMITLESS. A first of its kind, cannabinoid compound of CBN and CBG. He teamed up with Alex Mateo, David Keith and Todd Vance to produce this product – they sought funding and was able to create this ground breaking product. It release in 2022 at Tobacco Products Expo and was met with curiosity and intrigue.
Patrick and his Team didn’t stop there they wanted to share this patent pending method with the industry and offered customized compounds and choice tobaccos to those that possess the vision for such a thing in this industry. www.limitlesscigar.com
The “coreBACCO” Point of Sale (POS) System
Collaboration is at its core altruistic the ability to set aside agenda, work cohesively with intelligence and planning to develop a product is an experience we hope more would try. In the summer of 2021 Patrick and David Keith, being retailers and suffering with the difficulties of retail point of sale, embarked on another course to develop a Point of Sale that this industry can actually use and rely on. They were successful in teaming up with Ezra Weinstein of CoreWARE and Eric Meyers of Priority Payments to develop this new POS for both retailers but also for distributors and direct to retail manufacturers.
We call it “coreBACCO.” Priority Payments has recently become the leader in high risk compliance and has made it easy for this industry to take payment with the lowest processing fees available. As the group finished their work, the POS design was completed in early 2022. It is being released at PCA 2022 at the TABAC Trading Co Booth 446. (See attached brochure for details)
Milk & Honey
Patrick is a bright new addition to the boutique cigar sector, his blending abilities and creative marketing savvy has helped him produce his newest and largely most popular cigar line Milk & Honey. This year at PCA all three liga’s of Milk & Honey will be on display. He’s working on a 42×4 Corona 5 Pack in all three blends set for the end of the year.
