In 1953, the J.C. Newman Cigar Company bought the Regensburg Cigar Factory and moved its operation from Cleveland, Ohio to Tampa. Today it is not only the last remaining cigar manufacturing ...

TAMPA — Since 2009, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. has been Tampa’s last operational cigar factory. Recently, the 129-year-old business located inside Ybor City’s El Regensburg Cigar Factory learned ...

The V. Guerrieri Cigar Factory in Palmetto Beach, which employed hundreds of workers in Tampa's cigar industry at its peak in the 1920s, is one of the reasons the neighborhood exists at all.

TAMPA, Fla. — It’s been a long road, but construction is finally underway at an abandoned cigar factory in west Tampa to have it converted into a hotel. The multi-million-dollar project is ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The two-story Ybor City wooden and concrete block building at 2708 N 18th St. is primarily known as a former Arturo Fuente Cigar Co. factory. But Carlos Fuente Jr., the third ...

He is the president of the 125-year-old J.C. Newman Cigar Company. RELATED: Tampa's last cigar factory fights FDA regulations to stay in business There used to be 150 cigar factories in Tampa ...

TAMPA, Florida -- "When they walk in, it's like stepping back in time." That's Bobby Newman, the third-generation owner of the J.C. Newman Cigar Factory, speaking to the charms of exploring Ybor ...

but they moved to Tampa in 1954 and bought a cigar factory with a towering time machine. When the Newman's arrived in Tampa in 1954, the Cigar City was a gritty place. Managers expected at least ...

Rhonda Jean used to work at the Hav-A-Tampa plant, but got laid off when they shut down. Now, she’s worried the same thing could happen at J.C. Newman Cigar ... leave 135 factory workers unemployed.