CAO Cigars Selected For HBO® Emmy Awards Luxury Lounge CAO, one of the world’s foremost premium cigar manufacturers, was chosen as the exclusive cigar sponsor to the HBO Emmy® Awards Luxury Lounge, hosted at The Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on September 14-16. The luxury suite was host to presenters, nominees, and invited VIP guests of the 59th Primetime Emmy® Awards. The awards show was telecast live on Fox from the Shrine Auditorium on September 16 and was seen by over 12 million viewers worldwide. Guests of the HBO Emmy® Awards Luxury Lounge received a CAO SopranosSM Edition Gift Pack. Among the celebrities to receive CAO cigars were James Gandolfini (“The Sopranos”), Kevin Dillon (“Entourage”), Michael Imperioli (“The Sopranos”), Jeff Garlin (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Perrey Reeves (“Entourage”), Lorraine Bracco (“The Sopranos”), Aidan Quinn (“Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”), Jerry Ferrara (“Entourage”), and William Shatner (“Boston Legal”). Last January CAO was the exclusive cigar featured at the HBO Golden Globe Awards Luxury Lounge and has been the cigar brand of choice for the past two People’s Choice Awards along with the past two Critic’s Choice Awards. THE SOPRANOS and HBO are service marks for Home Box Office, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------- CAO International, Inc. is the producer of one of the country’s top lines of premium cigars, Meerschaum pipes and pipe tobaccos. Founded by Cano A. Ozgener in Nashville as a labor of love 39 years ago, today CAO products can be found on every continent in the world with the exception of Antarctica. CAO produces nine cigar lines that have all been rated ‘90’ (“OUTSTANDING”) or above by Cigar Aficionado and Cigar Insider.