The Davidoff Golden Band Awards 2021

OETTINGER DAVIDOFF RECOGNIZES ITS BEST RETAILERS AND PARTNERS WORLDWIDE WITH THE DAVIDOFF GOLDEN BAND AWARDS 2021

Basel, Switzerland, 29 September 2021: Oettinger Davidoff is proud to announce this year's Davidoff Golden Band Award winners. The company will honour and acknowledge its best of the best retailers and partners from around the globe with festive events in several countries worldwide.

Oettinger Davidoff, the renowned Basel-based company of handmade premium cigar brands, reveals the winners of the Davidoff Golden Band Awards 2021. Given the impact of the pandemic on international travel, the company will not hold one global and unifying Golden Band Awards ceremony as planned, but will celebrate the winners of the Davidoff Golden Band Awards 2021 locally, hosting festive dinner celebrations for the awarded teams in November. Celebrating Davidoff’s pioneering spirit, these events will be a journey of all senses drawing on unique pairings in exclusive settings, creating time beautifully filled for every guest.

Beat Hauenstein, CEO of Oettinger Davidoff, comments: "The Davidoff Golden Band Awards are the most important recognition of our company to recognize the amazing efforts and achievements of our key partners around the globe that drive our joint success of the Davidoff brand. We are very proud and pleased to announce the winners of our Golden Band Awards 2021 today, and we look forward to celebrating the best of the best from our global Davidoff family of retailers, partners, appointed merchants and distributors at the Golden Band Awards events in their respective countries."

Luc Hyvernat, SVP Chief Commercial Officer, adds: "It is thanks to the untiring dedication and passion of our retailers and partners that we can continue to grow our Davidoff footprint around the globe and delight and surprise our aficionados with unique brand, shopping and cigar experiences."

This year, Oettinger Davidoff awards the country winners for "Davidoff Best Performance" and for the US also for "Davidoff Best Growth". New awards include "Davidoff Best Appointed Merchant/Partner of the Year Award" as well as "Davidoff Best Brand Building of the Year Award".

The Davidoff Golden Band Award Winners 2021 are:

DAVIDOFF GOLDEN BAND WINNERS - US/AMERICAS

Davidoff Best Performance of the Year

USA Single location: Tobacconist of Greenwich, Greenwich, CT (USA)

Multiple locations: Blend Bar with Davidoff Cigars, Indianapolis, IN (USA)

Davidoff Best Growth of the Year

USA Single location: Cigar Box, Aventura, FL (USA)

Multiple locations: Casa de Montecristo, Countryside, IL (USA)

Davidoff Best Brand Building of the Year

USA Shore Thing Cigars, Watersound, FL (USA)

Davidoff Best Appointed Merchant of the Year – USA

The winner will be announced at the US Golden Band Awards Ceremony in November.

The nominees are: - Regency Cigar Emporium, East Greenwich, RI (USA)

Robusto's Cigar Bar & Bistro, Sterling Heights, MI (USA)

Silver Leaf Cigar, Fort Worth, TX (USA)

The US Davidoff Golden Band Awards celebration will take place on November 10, 2021

DAVIDOFF GOLDEN BAND AWARD WINNERS - EME

Davidoff Best Appointed Merchant of the Year – EMEA

Cigarworld by Tabac Benden, Dusseldof (Germany)

Davidoff Best Performance of the Year - EMEA

Austria: Mohilla Tabakspezialitätengeschäft, Vienna (Austria)

Benelux: Dagbladhandel Vandevenne, Genk (Belgium)

Germany: Cigarworld by Tabac Benden, Dusseldorf (Germany)

Switzerland: Zigarrenversand (Switzerland)

Spain: Cava Magallanes, Madrid (Spain)

UK: C.Gars Ltd, London (UK)

Davidoff Best Partner of the Year – EMEA

Lerida International Srl, Bucharest (Romania)

Davidoff Best Brand Building of the Year – EMEA / Partner Markets:

EMEA: ZigarrenWelt, Cologne (Germany)

Partner Markets: ITA srl (Italy)

The dates of the Davidoff Golden Band Awards EMEA are due in November (dates to be confirmed).

DAVIDOFF GOLDEN BAND AWARD WINNERS - ASIA

Davidoff Appointed Merchant of the Year – Asia

Japan: Ohkoshi Saketen, Chiba (Japan)

South Korea: De La Mano, Seoul (South Korea)

PRC: Ningbo Davidoff Lounge, Ningbo (PRC)

The Asian Gold Band Awards will all take place on November 10, 2021.

About Oettinger Davidoff Oettinger Davidoff Group, with sales of approximately 423 million Swiss francs and 3,100 employees around the world, traces its roots back to 1875 and remains family-owned to this day. The company is dedicated to the business of producing, marketing, distributing and retailing premium-branded cigars, tobacco products and accessories. The premium-branded cigar business includes Davidoff, AVO, Camacho, Cusano, Griffin’s, Private Stock, Zino and Zino Platinum. Oettinger Davidoff Group is also the sole agent of many brands in several countries such as Haribo in Switzerland. Its business is anchored in a strong “crop-to-shop” philosophy, having pursued vertical integration from the tobacco fields in the Dominican Republic and Honduras to its global network of around 70 Davidoff flagship stores/satellites and strong appointed merchants in more than 100 countries.