Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

Nat Sherman

 
Hoover's Profile: Nat Sherman, Inc.
 
Contact Information
Nat Sherman, Inc.
12 E. 42nd St. at 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10017
NY Tel. 201-735-9000
Toll Free 800-692-4427
Fax 201-735-9099

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.natsherman.com
Employees: 105

Nat Sherman makes and sells premium cigars, cigarettes, pipes, tobacco, and smoking accessories (ashtrays, cigar cutters and cases, humidors, lighters) throughout the US and in more than 40 countries worldwide. Exclusive brands include Fantasia (cigarettes), Maduro, Metropolitan, and Gotham (cigars). Run by the third-generation of the Sherman family, Joel Sherman (company president) and his son Bill (EVP), the firm operates a showroom on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street in New York City and manufactures its products in Greensboro, North Carolina. The company was founded in the 1930s by its namesake, the tobacconist Nat Sherman.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $67.8M

Officers:
President: Joel Sherman
CFO: Louis Carbone
EVP Sales: William M. (Bill) Sherman

Competitors:
Freedom Tobacco
Holt's Cigar
Philip Morris USA

Search unanswered questions...
Enter a word or phrase...
All Community Q&A Reference topics
Wikipedia: Nat Sherman
 

Sherman Fantasias

Nat Sherman is a brand of natural "luxury cigarettes", packaged and marketed to a higher-class clientele than most cigarettes. The company, headquartered in New York City, also sells cigars, pipe tobacco, and accessories. Nat Sherman has been selling tobacco since 1930. Nat Sherman is also one of the most famous cigar manufacturers in the United States having provided cigars to gentlemen's clubs throughout New York City for 75 years. The boxes of the company note that the headquarters are located on Fifth Avenue, New York City, (although now they are located just around the corner on 42nd St.) and currently include, as well as a retail section, a smoking lounge, and is stocked with various memorabilia relating to the company's history.

Contents

Varieties

42nd Street shop
  • Naturals - available in mint and light versions; also available in king size
  • Classic - king size, available in mint and light versions
  • New York Cut - available in mint and light versions
  • Black and Gold - black with gold leaf charcoal filter
  • Fantasia lights - colored paper wrappings with gold leaf charcoal filter
  • MCD - available in a light version
  • A Hint Of Mint - mint flavor in filter
  • A Touch of Clove - clove flavor in filter
  • Cigaretellos - cigar-grade tobacco, unfiltered
  • Havana Ovals - cigar-grade tobacco, unfiltered

Nat Sherman also carries pipes, pipe tobacco, cigars, and various smoking implements.

Popular culture

  • Nat Sherman "Havana Ovals" are mentioned in the Achewood cartoon strip of April 15, 2003, referencing an apparently fictitious 1956 movie, "The Devils of Monte Carlo," in which the cigarettes are used to smuggle concealed lockpicks into a prison [1]
  • The character of Samantha Gregory in the 1988 film Tapeheads is shown smoking a blue Fantasia during the party at the Mart mansion.
  • In the Peter Frampton song "Do You Feel Like We Do" there is a lyric "Champagne for breakfast, Nat Sherman in my hand".
  • In the 1970s series Kojak, Telly Savalas smoked Nat Sherman Non-Filter Cigaretellos when not sucking on a lollipop.

References

  • Nat Sherman's a Passion for Cigars: Selecting, Preserving, Smoking, and Savoring One of Life's Greatest Pleasures ISBN 0-8362-2182-6

External links


 
Shopping: Nat Sherman
Top
 
 

 

Copyrights:

Hoover's Profile. ©2008 Hoover's, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Nat Sherman" Read more