J. C. Newman Cigar Company

J.C. Newman Cigar Company
Company type	Private
Industry	Cigar
Founded	1895
Headquarters	Tampa, Florida
Key people	Eric Newman President, Robert Newman Executive Vice President)
Products	Premium, handmade cigars, humidors and cigar accessories
Website	[1]

J.C. Newman Cigar Company was established in 1895 and is the oldest family-owned premium cigar maker in the United States.^[1] It was founded in Cleveland, Ohio by Julius Caeser Newman, a Hungarian immigrant. The business relocated to a historic 1910 cigar factory (Regensburg cigar factory) in the Cigar City of Ybor City, Florida in 1954. The family business is now in its fourth generation of Newman ownership.

Company overview

J.C. Newman Cigar Company 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 worldwide distributor for Arturo Fuente cigars, except for Western Europe. Today, J.C. Newman's cigars are sold in 81 countries around the world.

Cigar brands

Dominican Republic cigars

Cuesta-Rey
Diamond Crown
Diamond Crown Black Diamond
Diamond Crown Maximus
Diamond Crown Julius Caeser
La Unica

Nicaraguan cigars

Alcazar
El Baton
Brick House
Don Jose
Don Seville
HavanaQ
Quorum
Perla Del Mar
Yagua

United States cigars

Decision
Factory Firsts
Factory Throwouts
Rigoletto
Tampa Trolleys
The American
Trader Jacks

Humidors and cigar accessories

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

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]
J.C. Newman was a director of the Cigar Manufacturers Association of American in the 1940s. ^[3]
After the United States embargo against Cuba began, J.C. Newman introduced Cameroon tobacco to the United States.
The Cuesta-Rey Cigar Bar at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays, was the first cigar bar in Major League Baseball.
J.C. Newman operates cigar museum Archived 2006-11-15 at the Wayback Machine 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.
J.C. Newman utilizes antique, hand-operated ARENCO and American Machine and Foundry cigarmaking machines from the 1930's in its Tampa factory.^[4]

References

^ "Tobacco.org news on America's oldest family-owned cigar company". Retrieved 2007-03-02.
^ "First one to pack cigars in cellophane tubes". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
^ Newman, Julius C.. Smoke Dreams: An Autobiography by... a True Pioneer in the Cigar Industry. United States: n.p., 1957. 39.
^ "You Can Tour Tampa Newman Cigar Factory and Be Like Walking Back in Time". Retrieved 2020-12-28.