J.C. Newman Cigar Company

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J.C. Newman Cigar Company

Type	Private
Founded	1895
Headquarters	Tampa, Florida
Key people	Stanford Newman (Chairman of the Board), Eric Newman President, Robert Newman Executive Vice President)
Industry	Cigar
Products	Premium, handmade cigars, humidors and cigar accessories
Website	www.cigarfamily.com

J.C. Newman Cigar Company is the oldest family-owned premium cigar maker in the United States.^[1] Founded in 1895 in Cleveland, Ohio, this four-generation cigar family's business is located in a historic 1910 cigar factory in the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida.

1 Company overview
2 Cigars brands
3 Humidors and cigar accessories
4 Historic facts
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Company overview

Founded in 1895, the J.C. Newman Cigar Company is a four-generation family business that manufactures and distributes premium cigars. As a Hungarian immigrant, J.C. Newman rolled his first cigars in the family barn in Cleveland in 1895. In 1954, the company moved to Tampa's Ybor City cigar district to be closer to Cuba. J.C. Newman is also the world-wide distributor for Arturo Fuente cigars, except for Western Europe. Today, J.C. Newman's cigars are sold in 80 countries around the world.

[edit] Cigars brands

[edit] Dominican Republic cigars

Cuesta-Rey
Diamond Crown
Diamond Crown Maximus
La Unica
Rigoletto

[edit] Honduran cigars

Don Jose

[edit] Nicaraguan cigars

Alcazar
Quorum

[edit] United States cigars

Rigoletto

[edit] Humidors and cigar accessories

Diamond Crown, made by Reed & Barton
Craftsman's Bench

[edit] Historic facts

J.C. Newman was the first to package cigars in cellophane tubes, now an industry standard, to protect cigars and keep them fresh.^[2]
After the Cuban embargo, J.C. Newman introduced Cameroon tobacco to the United States
The Cuesta-Rey Cigar Bar at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, is the first cigar bar in Major League Baseball.
J.C. Newman operates small, private cigar museum on the first floor of its historic Tampa factory.
In 2001, the Newman family joined the Fuente family in creating the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has raised over $3 million to build schools, medical clinics, farms, and sports and recreation facilities to help the poor children of the Dominican Republic.