badbriar

What Edwin said. Hard to imagine a company like DE having massive debt, given the price of many of their premium cigars. Some of their offerings, like the No. 9, T52 and others are nothing less than superb. I just can't see a large, profit driven corporation like Swisher staying hands off when products from the newly acquired DE suffer from terribly limited availability. Would be mighty tempting to slap on another wrapper and call the new version a Pig with a tail in order to get those $10 plus sticks rolling out for sale. Lack of availability translates directly to loss of sales in a big way. When people can't get the latest and greatest, they turn to something else and in many cases, stop trying to get that holy grail cigar.
Long story short, IMHO, is there is more than likely going to be a decrease in quality of the legendary cigars we all have come to be in awe of. Hard to imagine a super-duper premium expensive cigar from Swisher. If you don't believe it, look at the other giants that have bought quality boutique cigar companies. Not many people rush out to buy from the cigar corp versions of the big box stores. Seems that this will at least lightly tarnish the aura of DE. Kinda like buying a Porsche from K-Mart. Sad, sad news!