BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- Davidoff Cigarettes, Commonwealth Brands Inc.'s newest super-premium cigarette brand in the U.S. market, was presented with a new product award for "Best Packaging & Design" at the Tobacco Plus Expo Show 2008 in Las Vegas in late April. Commonwealth Brands also received top honors for "Original Booth Design."
Each award was based on the most interesting and unique concept among newly presented products and display concepts. Submissions were critiqued by a panel of six judges from the industry.
“We are all very proud to have been presented with these [image-nocss] awards and to receive such recognition at the Tobacco Plus Expo,” said Tim Jones, vice president of marketing for Commonwealth Brands. “It is an honor to be recognized by some of the most influential people in the industry.”
Commonwealth Brands, an Imperial Tobacco Group company, announced the introduction of Davidoff Cigarettes into the U.S. domestic market in May 2008. (Click here to read CSP Daily News coverage of the brand's rollout.)
Bowling Green, Ky.-based Davidoff is Imperial Tobacco 's lead international strategic luxury cigarette brand. It is already well established in more than 100 countries, with particular areas of strength throughout markets such as Greece, Taiwan and the Middle East, the company said.
Commonwealth Brands is the fourth-largest cigarette company in the United States, it said, manufacturing the USA Gold, Montclair, Malibu, Sonoma and Riviera cigarette brands. It also manufactures other tobacco products under the brand names Premier, McClintock, Bali-Shag, E-Z Wider, Joker, El Rey and Rizla. Commonwealth Brands is owned by Imperial Tobacco PLC.
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