J.C. Newman Opens Nicaraguan Cigar Factory

(Cigar Aficionado) The owners of J.C. Newman Cigar Co. have opened a cigar factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, a project they have kept secret for more than a year. This will be the first time since the 1930s that the Newman family will be making cigars by hand in one of their own factories.
The new facility, which opened two weeks ago, is a 55,000 square-foot, one-story building called Puros de Estelí Nicaragua S.A., also known as PENSA. Continued

Photo: A worker rolls tobacco in cigars at a cigar plant in Tampa, Florida (Carol Highsmith/Library of Congress).