Ozgener Family Cigars (OFC) is the post-CAO project of Tim Ozgener (with family partner Emre), launched around 2022 after Tim’s earlier career helping build CAO into a major brand under his father Cano Ozgener. The new house deliberately puts the family name on the band—lines such as Bosphorus, Aramas, Cypher, and Pi mix design-forward presentation with Nicaraguan and multi-origin leaf.
On this map, core production is linked to La Corona Factory in Estelí, reflecting OFC’s Nicaraguan manufacturing footprint. (Some OFC expressions have also been reported at other partner factories in trade/retail listings as the portfolio expanded—common for a restart brand scaling SKUs.)
Ozgener Family Cigars represents a full-circle industry arc: a family that once sold a brand into corporate ownership returns with an independent marque, re-entering the graph through a dedicated Estelí factory relationship rather than a mass STG-style portfolio.