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Hansotia Resigns as Chairman
Sunoverbeach Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 08-11-2017
Posts: 14,588
Apparently made some BLM mocking posts on social media and is stepping down. My question is would this be a possible chance to change the level of quality that we've come to expect from Gurkha, or is the corporate system too ingrained for it to make any difference?

*Note* located in the cigar discussion forum. I care not whether he's evil for mocking BLM, utilizing his right to free speech, or stealing goats from Corey for sexy times
clickbangdead Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 01-31-2009
Posts: 2,214
Whatever will they do without his leadership, why, quality will just go right up the drain!
Sunoverbeach Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 08-11-2017
Posts: 14,588
Kinda what I was thinking. Maybe a few years from now, we'll all join Tony in a Gurkhafest
CelticBomber Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 05-03-2012
Posts: 6,786
Sunoverbeach wrote:
Kinda what I was thinking. Maybe a few years from now, we'll all join Tony in a Gurkhafest


You must be smoking some good stuff! They could start using the finest tobacco's known to man and roll them between the thighs of Victoria's Secret models... I still wouldn't jump on board. Too many memories of too many cigars going poof in my hands to ever lure me back. Every time I see someone in Hollywood smoking a Gurkha (There are many) I just laugh.
KingoftheCove Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 10-08-2011
Posts: 7,603
Hansotia “stepping down” as “Chairman” means absolutely nothing.
Gurks will be Gurks............for evah......
Sunoverbeach Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 08-11-2017
Posts: 14,588
Probably true, but happens sometimes. Look at KIA. Piece of crap to largely dependable car maker in a mere blink and you'll miss it 20something years. Of course that would require new leadership to have an excess of drive and vision. And yeah, KH would have to truly be out of the picture.
corey sellers Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 08-21-2011
Posts: 10,339
If you didn't know Gurkhas have been rolled on the thighs of virgin goats for years.Thats what gives them the twang.
izonfire Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 12-09-2013
Posts: 8,642
I’ll have me some extra poon in that tang...
corey sellers Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 08-21-2011
Posts: 10,339
Haha
Pudding Mittens Offline
#10 Posted:
Joined: 08-15-2016
Posts: 1,291
Sunoverbeach wrote:
Apparently made some BLM mocking posts on social media

Why would he mock the Bureau of Land Management? They do a fine job!
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tonygraz Offline
#11 Posted:
Joined: 08-11-2008
Posts: 20,175
If things go well in November maybe they can find a guy that will Make Gurkha Great Again.
24132413 Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 01-25-2017
Posts: 555

If they were making MONEY under K.H. nothing will change.
Mr. Jones Offline
#13 Posted:
Joined: 06-12-2005
Posts: 19,359
Guhrka "LEGENDS"...THE FIRST TIME AROUND WERE
VERY GOOD CIGARS ...

I'm pretty sure I liked the torpedoes best?
Can't remember?
What other vitolas were made?

WAY before CIGARS INTERNATIONAL CONCIEVED OF THEiR OWN LEGENdS BRAND by individual cigAr makers in a 5x55 vitola...
Abrignac Offline
#14 Posted:
Joined: 02-24-2012
Posts: 17,217
This seems to fall under the WGAF category.
Barbara Offline
#15 Posted:
Joined: 05-12-2008
Posts: 51
Kaizad Hansotia is still the majority owner of Gurkha Cigars.
Notthe1 Offline
#16 Posted:
Joined: 06-01-2020
Posts: 860
I heard there are plans, in the works, to buy out his ownership of the company.

Ii also heard he is not involved in the day to day operations.

Although the quality of the cigars will prawly remain the same with or without him.
Pudding Mittens Offline
#17 Posted:
Joined: 08-15-2016
Posts: 1,291
Abrignac wrote:
This seems to fall under the WGAF category.

Yeah, really. I give a schitt about as much as who's in and out of the executive suite at Little Turdy's Schitt Sandwich Cookies, LLC.

In both cases, it's an awful, garbage product I want nothing to do with, so who's at the helm of the company has zero (0) significance to me. I couldn't care less.
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Barbara Offline
#18 Posted:
Joined: 05-12-2008
Posts: 51
As in the past, the quality of the cigars will depend on which factory is producing them. Gurkha, since its modern inception, has just been a brand. In 2017 there was a rumor that Hansotia was going to buy American Caribbean in Esteli, Nicaragua (former Torano factory) but that doesn't appear to have ever happened. American Caribbean has produced some, but not all of Gurkha's Nicaraguan sourced cigars. Las Lavas S.A. has made many Gurkha cigars. PDR is also producing cigars for Gurkha with Abe Flores doing the blending. Gurkha buys production lots, then has them banded and boxed as Gurkha. Many are the same cigar bearing other brands. Very few Gurkha cigars have actually bee blended specifically for Gurkha. As a consequent, the brand is inconsistent in quality. Some are rolled by third string apprentices with inferior tobacco while others are rolled by factory's top torcedors with the best tobacco.

Who is at the helm of any brand is integral to the quality and blending. What would My Father be without the oversight of Pepin Garcia or Jon Sann at Drew Estate?

Barbara Offline
#19 Posted:
Joined: 05-12-2008
Posts: 51
Pudding Mittens wrote:
Yeah, really. I give a schitt about as much as who's in and out of the executive suite at Little Turdy's Schitt Sandwich Cookies, LLC. In both cases, it's an awful, garbage product I want nothing to do with, so who's at the helm of the company has zero (0) significance to me.

It's really quite clear that your knowledge of the inner workings of cigar manufacturing is minuscule.
Pudding Mittens Offline
#20 Posted:
Joined: 08-15-2016
Posts: 1,291
Barbara wrote:
It's really quite clear that your knowledge of the inner workings of cigar manufacturing is minuscule.

On the contrary, after well over 20 years of being a cigar enthusiast and having conversations with many captains of the industry I know all about the inner workings of the industry (marketing, subcontracting to different actual manufacturers behind the scenes, etc. etc. blah blah). But when your brand name is on the final product sold to consumers, and that product consistently sucks ass, it matters not what the process behind the scenes is, or who's really making what, or any other factors.... your brand name is associated with lousy, bad-quality products. That's all the customer sees, and that's all that matters.

Also it's really quite clear that your knowledge of appropriate text size for a forum post is miniscule.
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Stogie1020 Offline
#21 Posted:
Joined: 12-19-2019
Posts: 5,231
Barbara thought this place was super serious...
Barbara Offline
#22 Posted:
Joined: 05-12-2008
Posts: 51
Stogie1020 wrote:
Barbara thought this place was super serious...
In reality, Barbara and spouse were involved in the cigar business from 1966 until 2016.
Barbara Offline
#23 Posted:
Joined: 05-12-2008
Posts: 51
Pudding Mittens wrote:
Also it's really quite clear that your knowledge of appropriate text size for a forum post is miniscule..
Wrong again, we've been participants in cigar forums since the earliest alt.cigar group and this forum was largely populated by the Interstate Cigar Group, but at that time you were probably in 3rd grade.
frankj1 Offline
#24 Posted:
Joined: 02-08-2007
Posts: 44,211
I like where this is going....
CelticBomber Offline
#25 Posted:
Joined: 05-03-2012
Posts: 6,786
Barbara wrote:
Wrong again, we've been participants in cigar forums since the earliest alt.cigar group and this forum was largely populated by the Interstate Cigar Group, but at that time you were probably in 3rd grade.


Nah.. Pudding is so old he still owe's Jesus 2 shekels.

(This could get fun! My apologies in advance for abusing the elderly.)
DrMaddVibe Offline
#26 Posted:
Joined: 10-21-2000
Posts: 55,309
frankj1 wrote:
I like where this is going....



Referring to oneself in the third person with a mouse in one's pocket is always a crazy good time.

Pull up a chair and watch this $hitshow. Beer
Speyside Offline
#27 Posted:
Joined: 03-16-2015
Posts: 13,106
The show could get quite bloody I hope. I reminds me of the time a chicken ran across the road with Bloody chasing.

Sarcasm

horse
Pudding Mittens Offline
#28 Posted:
Joined: 08-15-2016
Posts: 1,291
Barbara wrote:
Wrong again, we've been participants in cigar forums since the earliest alt.cigar group and this forum was largely populated by the Interstate Cigar Group, but at that time you were probably in 3rd grade.

Ha, shows how little you know, NEWB! I was just out of college when the birth of the universe happened back in about 13,799,997,980 B.C., and I was there and watched it while I smoked a cigar, long before your first ancestors crawled out of the goo,young whippersnapper!
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DrMaddVibe Offline
#29 Posted:
Joined: 10-21-2000
Posts: 55,309
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