With some of the profits from the cigar, Rothman hired three new employees who were tasked with handling the sales of these value-priced cigars. In the s, though he had a successful retail and wholesale business, Rothman grew JR Cigar with the addition of new stores in Manhattan. By , business was booming, and JR Cigar was beginning to outgrow its home offices in New York, prompting it to move to a much larger facility in Fairfield, New Jersey. Much like its New Jersey facility, the Selma location housed a warehouse and superstore that offered cigars in addition to many other products.
Due to the many cigar smokers that traveled from northeastern states through North Carolina to reach Florida, JR Cigar eventually added another super-store to Statesville, North Carolina, which is located 90 miles east of Selma. The famed Cigar Boom kicked off in , and as the demand for premium cigars increased, so did business for JR Cigar, which by then was ranked as one of the largest distributors and retailers of premium and mass-market cigars in the world.
Demand outstripped the supply of cigars, leading to inferior products entering the market as well as price hikes on the cigars that were available. Rothman, who had built a business around pivoting and adapting when backed into a corner, responded to the Cigar Boom and dwindling supply of cigars by making the bold decision that JR Cigar would only sell cigars to its established customers.
JR Cigar yet again was experiencing its own boom, requiring it to move its headquarters from Fairfield to Whippany, New Jersey.
Much of the s played out like the previous decades: As the company grew, it expanded, it scaled, and it adapted to the times. Upmann, Henry Clay and Vega Fina, to name a few. Much like the early days of the company, the new partnership not only gave JR Cigar much-needed products and brands that would also give it buying power.
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Welcome to JR. There is an enormous walk-in humidor with middle-aged men ambling and poking around, or smoking cigars in the leather chairs in the back. Why waste time driving from place to place when everything you could ever need or not need is right there? We sometimes need to be reminded that all of this stuff had to come from somewhere, that somebody had to make it, ship it, stock it. JR is a cultural hub because its stuff comes from everywhere. The sum and its parts are equally as eclectic and diverse.
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JR is a North Carolina landmark, and it is, first and foremost, a place to buy stuff. Throughout the United States and in the South, we often tell ourselves that we are exceptional and at times fall prey to believing we are our own world.
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