Tampa cigar company closes
March 25, 2019 - Thompson Cigar, America’s oldest mail order cigar company, is closing its Tampa site and integrating operations into a facility in Bethlehem, Pa.. The closure comes about a year after the company was bought by Scandinavian Tobacco Group for $62 million. In a WARN notice filed with the state, the company said it would lay off all of its 112 local employees, starting June 29 and continuing through the end of 2019.