Acquisitions have reduced the number of major players in the organized retailing sector. However, in some product branches, the number of manufacturers is rising by the day. This situation has made...
Şarık Tara is one of the leading businessmen in Turkey… He is known as the doyen of the construction sector. In 51 years, Enka, which he founded with his brother-in-law, has grown to turnover of ov...
Yaşar Holding is forging ahead under a new CEO. Mehmet Aktaş, who has been with the company for 13 years, took over as CEO in July. He has some difficult targets ahead of him. But he is very upbeat...
New General Manager For Kempinski BodrumAlex Ludwig, who had previously served as manager of the Moscow Kempinski, one of the leading global tourist destinations, was appointed general manager of t...
Kayseri has always had an important place in the Turkish business world… It has produced many giant groups, from the Sabancıs to the Özilhans and hosted tens of important companies. But in recent y...
In recent years rising consumer demand for luxury goods has resulted in an increase in the number of luxury stores being opened all over the world. Turkey is one of these countries. Burç Cemiloğlu,...
The increase in foreign investments in Turkey has produced a parallel rise in the number of foreign executives. According to those who have previously lived in different countries, Turkey is not a ...
In fact they are not very many in number. But their success is still stunning. We are talking about companies such as Goldaş, Anadolu Efes, Nursan Çelik and Toyota which, within a short period of t...
The telephone sales market has reached a volume of $200 billion in the world as a whole. In Turkey the volume of telephone sales stands at $350 million. Experts say that the reason for this method ...
Türk Telekom CEO Paul Doany has declared that 2008 will be ‘customer’ and ‘product’ year. He says that they will launch a major offensive and introduce a different product every week of the year. H...
Volvo Car Türkiye General Manager Torben Eckardt, who came to Turkey just four months ago, manages fully 18 countries from İstanbul. Together with his wife and 10 year-old twins, he lives in Zekeri...
The results of the “Capital 500” survey identify the 500 largest privately owned companies in Turkey in 2006 in terms of their turnover. When one considers that the services sector accounts from mo...
R&D executives are, in one sense, the secret heroes of their companies. They are the ones who manage their companies’ R&D departments as they are buffeted by the winds of innovation. Capita...
Tanju Argun, who has been appointed general coordinator of Goldart Holding and has accelerated the process of corporate institutionalization, is very upbeat about his new position. “We want to comp...
SME banking is on the rise both in Turkey and in the rest of the world. Research suggests that on global markets SME banking accounts for an average of 16 percent of banks’ revenue. In Turkey the f...