Coming to the 2018 International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association trade-show: a rate-hike. One to the tune of three USD per square foot for all booth display spaces. IPCPR CEO, one Mr. Mark Pursell, cited the impetus behind the increase as two-fold: 1) the heightened expenses of fighting the FDA deeming regulations and, 2) the increasing cost of the facility -- which the show wound up in via getting bumped from its original locale.
What's more, all this comes on the heels of a late last year price-hike in IPCPR membership rates.
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