West Tampa Cigar Company Coming to Germany

The new cigar company by Rick Rodriguez is only a week old, but yet the cigar industry veteran is already expanding operations to across the ocean. Kleinlagel Zigarren, a German cigar manufacturer, importer and distributor is adding West Tampa Cigar Company to the brands they are already importing and distributing in Germany. These brands include Gurkha, Kristoff,  Epic, Casdagli, Kelner Boutique Factory and Principle Cigars to name a few.

Rodriguez is best known for his time at General Cigars as the blender and the face of CAO cigars, but three weeks ago he retired from General Cigars only to launch his own West Tampa Cigar Company a week later. With the large network Rodriguez built over the last decades, Germany is the first international market for West Tampa but certainly not the last.