In recent years there has been considerable interest in agriculture and animal husbandry. Foreigners have been buying land for agriculture and local investors have been establishing animal husbandr...
We cannot say that no Turkish government ever managed to run the economy effectively. But there was probably no time when there was such a travesty of economic logic as in the 1990s. It was in this...
For years the global furniture giant IKEA had not come to Turkey. Despite the entreaties of a large number of companies and groups they stuck by their decision. When they announced their investment...
Foodstuffs, automotives, white goods, magazines, clothing, cosmetics and others… Everyone in the business community has their own fears about China and is talking about a flood of cheap goods. But ...
At the end of the 1990s, companies from the white meat sector began to appear in the Istanbul Chamber of Industry (İSO) and Capital 500 surveys. The fact that nine companies featured in the 2004 su...
The Economy And The Exchange Rate March was an interesting month in terms of changes in the foreign exchange rate. When the dollar exchange rate dipped below YTL 1.3 during the first half of the ...
Henokiens is one of the very rare ‘companies clubs’… It was founded in France in 1981. Only family companies which are at least 200 years old can join this exclusive club. At the moment it has 34 m...
The world of business is a playing field and companies are the players. The key question here is: “Are you playing for fun or playing to win?” Management consultants recommend playing to win and pl...
The total size of the snack market in Turkey is $1.6 billion, while the ‘salted snacks’ category is worth $230 million. Heading the list of those who are enjoying this market’s 40 percent annual gr...
İş Bankası General Manager Ersin Özince says that the search for foreign partners in the banking sector do not affect them. “This is not a question of being better or worse. For some reason some pe...
Can a car have its own smell, software a sound, toothpaste a flavor? Martin Lindstrom, who is one of the world’s leading brand experts says: ‘It most certainly should’… He believes that brands are ...
A significant proportion came from Çivril, Denizli. Some began in small shops, others in a workshop. They also include those who started off in business by selling to foreign markets. But they all ...
Akın Holding is one of the leading groups in the Turkish textiles sector. It has an annual turnover of $500 million and employs 300 people. It is active in five different sectors. In recent years i...
Ünsa Ambalaj is one of largest producers of ‘big bag’, one of the sub-categories in the packaging sector. It has established five companies in Europe in this sector which can be considered new in T...
Saffet Karpat is CEO of P & G, the global giant. He notes that in the last 10 years they have grown threefold. “Our Turkish operations are very successful. In the near future we shall grow at t...