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Los Angeles, June 12 – “I’ve decided to explore selling my cigar company.”

That’s Robert Spoden, owner of Bucanero Cigars of Tampa, Florida, in the yet-to-be-mailed summer issue of the European Cigar-Cult Journal.

Spoden told ECCJ Editor-in-Chief Reinhold Widmayer that “We are a small manufacturer by comparison to the multi-million annual cigar manufacturers of today. It would be a perfect fit for an entrepreneur that wishes to grow our brand into a major player in today’s multi-billion cigar industry. I have no one to pass my company onto and retirement is on my horizon.”

Spoden has created an impressive line-up of blends since founding Bucanero in 1995:

  • The flagship Bucanero line is made in Nicaragua and includes nine blends: Canon Cubano, Clasico Maduro, El Capitan, Full Sail, Peg Leg, Salsa, Texas Star, Windjammer and Z.

  • The value-priced Bundelo by Bucanero bundle group, introduced in 2006 and also Nicaraguan-made, comes in seven blends: Cameroon, Havana Rose, La Noche and Zia, plus new introductions in 2008 of Bucanero Booty, Bucanero Double Maduro and Havana Pirate.

  • Don Douglas Cabinet Series, also made in Nicaragua, introduced in 2003 and

  • Treasures of Costa Rica, made in Costa Rica with all Costa Rican-grown tobaccos, which debuted in 2004.

    The Bucanero lines have garnered numerous mentions and high grades from reviewers. Spoden said “The development work and founding risks are taken care of; the product lines are tried and true. All that my successor has to do is take care of advertising and marketing and grow the Bucanero into a nationally or internationally coveted cigar.

    That’s easier said than done, of course, but Spoden himself made a considerable splash during the Cigar Boom by bringing a full-rigged pirate ship onto the annual Retail Tobacco Dealers of America (now IPCPR) convention floor in the 1990s and using it as his “booth” at the show.

    Spoden has set the company up nicely for sale. There are only three employees and three agents oversee the distribution to about 1,000 smokeshops in the U.S. “The factories in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which have the capacity to produce more than 250,000 cigars a month, will be able to fully support the new owner,” he added.

    For Spoden, life has one more challenge. “I have two passions in life: cigars and architecture design. While I still have some time remaining in my life, I wish to finally design and build my retirement home in Taos, New Mexico.”

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