Eric Newman

Each year I go to Procigar, the first tour I sign up to go on is to a school. Here’s why.

J.C. Newman has announced that it has appointed Aimee Cooks the new vice president and general manager of its El Reloj factory in Tampa, Fla.,…

The one Procigar tour that everyone wishes they take is the journey to Caribe, they just don’t know it yet. As I’ve said multiple times…

When it comes to making it as easy as possible for cigar retailers and consumers to voice their opinion to the FDA about the regulation…

Tampa’s largest and oldest remaining cigar factory has covered its famous sign and belltower for a cause. J.C. Newman Cigar Co. has relaunched its “Save…

PENSA is now known as J.C. Newman PENSA. J.C. Newman Cigar Co. has announced that it has renamed the factory, whose acronym stands for Puros de…

It’s called the Cigar City, but there are now more breweries than cigar factories. Tampa—specifically its Ybor City neighborhood—was once the capital of the global…

J.C. Newman Cigar Co. has announced a variety of promotions within its marketing division. Monica Foster (R) and Kara Guagliardo (L) have been promoted to co-marketing…

“We don’t post pictures from this, this is for us,” said Jamilet Calviño of Cigar Snob, shortly before our tour started. Us referring to her and…

After missing an appointment, I made a third trip to the J.C. Newman booth to finally cover the company’s new products just before the company…

For some reason, it seems as if we’ve been writing about and reviewing anniversary cigars quite a bit as of late. It certainly hasn’t been…