Royal Agio
Only 2000 boxes are available worldwide of which 200 have arrived at Dutch retailers. The boxes contain 10 cigars and the fixed retail price in The Netherlands is €135 per...
Published January 2021
Balmoral to exit the American market. The rumor was going around for a week or two, but the news is official now. Scandinavian Tobacco, the new owner of Royal Agio...
Published May 2020
STG closes Royal Agio factories. Last September, Royal Agio and Scandinavian Tobacco Group dropped a bomb. Scandinavian Tobacco Group was acquiring the 115-year-old family-owned Royal Agio cigars. Earlier this year,...
Published April 2020
Royal Agio employees get a bonus. The Wintermans family, who founded the Dutch cigar company in 1904, have decided to donate 10 million euro towards the employees. The money will...
Published January 2020
STG finalizes Royal Agio deal. And with that, Royal Agio Cigars now officially owned by STG. Last September, Scandinavian Tobacco Group and the 115-year-old Dutch cigar manufacturer announced the intended...
Published January 2020
A visit to Royal Agio. Growing up in The Netherlands, cigars from Royal Agio were a staple. The most famous brand in the country, with the powdered Gouden Oogst as...
Published December 2019
Balmoral Paso Doble released in the United States. It’s the second release of the Balmoral Signaturas series, a series of collaborations with other cigar manufacturers. The first Balmoral Signaturas was...
Published October 2019
STG acquires Royal Agio. In a deal that nobody saw coming, Scandinavian Tobacco Group acquires Royal Agio. The Danish tobacco mogul pays 210 million Euro for the 115-year-old Dutch family...
Published September 2019
Royal Agio launches San Pedro de Macoris Nicaragua in The Netherlands. The cigars should be available this week. It’s the third San Pedro de Macoris blend that will be available...
Published July 2019
Agio is releasing Balmoral Añejo Nicaragua at the IPCPR trade show. At first only on the American market, yet the cigars are expected globally in after the new year.

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Published June 2019
Balmoral Añejo XO Connecticut now in Switzerland. A few months ago, we broke the news that the cigars would be distributed in Europe. And the cigar is available in Germany...
Published June 2019
Balmoral Añejo XO now available in Hong Kong. For the release of the Balmoral Añejo XO series, Royal Agio’s Asian representative Asia Marketing Services worked with Cigars of Habanos as...
Published May 2019
San Pedro de Macoris Gran Toro in The Netherlands. Royal Agio Cigars has extended the San Pedro de Macoris lines with a new size for The Netherlands. Besides the Perla...
Published May 2019
San Pedro de Macoris will be available soon in Hungary. Local distributors TTI and Royal Agio partnered up for the local Hungarian market. They will introduce Agio’s tribute to their...
Published April 2019
Normally we don’t post about pipe tobacco, but now that Royal Agio is branching out into the pipe tobacco business we make an exception. No, Royal Agio isn’t going to...
Published December 2018
Guantanamera Cigar Company has been battling with Habanos S.A. for almost a decade. Their fight is about the Guantanamera Trademark. But legal trademark dispute and lawsuit isn’t enough for the...
Published November 2018
Agio is bringing back the Balmoral Añejo XO Lancero FT. Well, at least as a limited edition for the American market. As lancero fans, we jumped for joy when we...
Published November 2018
Like every year, Royal Agio, will release a limited edition Balmoral Añejo XO. This year it will be the Balmoral Añejo XO Edición Limitada 2018 Gran Perfecto FT. The cigar...
Published October 2018
Royal Agio is really pushing forward with their Balmoral longfillers. For years they kept quiet on that front but in the last 6 years the Dutch cigar manufacturer released line...
Published October 2018