CAO

CAO is a New World cigar brand founded by Cano A. Ozgener in 1965 in Nashville, Tennessee, and now owned by Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) and its subsidiary General Cigar Co.

The brand manufactured a wide range of cigars for the American market during the boom years of the 1990s, including the Brazilia, America, and Mx2 lines, with production in Central America.

Today CAO's innovative philosophy continues, and their never-ending quest to produce new and unique blends is captured in their mission statement:

"We’ll go anywhere to find the exceptional tobacco we’re looking for. And we have. We’ve been all over the world, procuring some of the finest and rarest leaf known to man. The jungles of the Amazon. The mountains of Colombia. The valleys of the Dominican Republic and the volcanoes of Nicaragua. And nearly every point on the map in between.

In all our travels, we’ve discovered something. When we remove boundaries, borders, and limits from the process, what we’re left with is a tobacco experience unlike any other."