J.C. Newman Opens New Diamond Crown Lounge In Chicago
J.C. Newman Cigar Co. opened its 38th Diamond Crown cigar lounge this week, located at Norwood Royal Cigars in Chicago. More than 100 people were in attendance, including Bobby Newman, one of the company’s owners. He called the spot a haven for cigar lovers. “Vick and Mita Shah have built a world class cigar lounge,” he said, “and we are so honored that it now bears that Diamond Crown name.”
Diamond Crown’s first branded cigar lounge opened in 2007, and now the Newman family has more than three dozen of them, spread across 20 states.
“When smoking bans started to spread two decades ago, our family decided to partner with family-owned cigar retailers like the Shahs to create first-class lounges for consumers to enjoy fine cigars like Diamond Crown,” Newman added.
The lounges are named for a 100-year-old cigar brand that made a comeback in 1995 as a fat, milder smoke created by Stanford J. Newman and Carlos Fuente Jr. Today, it has several varieties, some of them quite strong, all of which are made by Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia. in the Dominican Republic.
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