Campari America, formerly known as Skyy Spirits, is an American spirits maker that is part of the

Campari Group Davide Campari-Milano N.V., trading as Campari Group, is an Italian company active since 1860 in the branded drink industry, beverage industry. It produces Distilled beverage, spirits, wines, and non-alcoholic apéritifs. From its signature produ ...

, the family of companies also known as Davide Campari-Milano N.V., a publicly traded company on the Milan stock exchange. Founder Maurice Kanbar launched SKYY Vodka, and its namesake company, Skyy Spirits, in 1992 in

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. Sometime in the early 2000s Davide Campari-Milano acquired Skyy Spirits and changed its name to Campari America in 2012. It moved its US headquarters from San Francisco to New York City in 2018. Campari America's portfolio of brands in the US include such leading brands as

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, SKYY Infusions,

Campari Campari () is an Italian alcoholic liqueur, considered an aperitif, apéritif of the ''bitter'' variety (and not an amaro) by Italians while considered an apéritif of the Amaro (liqueur), amaro variety by Americans, obtained from the infusion of ...

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, Espolon,

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Tequila,

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, Russell's Reserve, American Honey,

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, Cynar, and

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In January 1999, SKYY Spirits joined with Nasser Ahmadvand for distribution of each other's products in Asia. SKYY Spirits is the sole importer of Campari into the US and the international distribution arm of Campari is the exclusive worldwide distributor (excluding

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) of

SKYY vodka SKYY vodka is an American vodka spirit produced by the Campari America division of Campari Group of Milan, Italy, formerly SKYY Spirits LLC. SKYY Vodka is 40% ABV or 80 proof, except in Australia and New Zealand where it is 37.5% ABV / 75 Pr ...

. On December 13, 2001, Campari struck a deal to make it the controlling

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of SKYY Spirits with 58.9% stock ownership. On February 25, 2005, Campari acquired a further 30.1% share in SKYY Spirits, bringing the company's total share to 89%. On January 11, 2012, Skyy Spirits announced it was changing its name to Campari America.{{cite web, url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120111006073/en, title=Skyy Spirits Changes Name to Campari America, date=January 11, 2012, publisher=Business Wire, accessdate=April 22, 2014

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