ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE EU PROJECT Despite the conditions related to the Cyprus issue, Turkey has entered a new era, as the European Union (EU) decided on a date for the launching of accession neg...
Atila Şenol is Board Chairman of Mesa, one of the leaders of the housing sectors. He says that housing started to pick up in 2003 and really began to gather pace in 2004. He believes that this boom...
Every executive has been faced with the same scenario. “I’m sick. I can’t come today.”… But this classic situation is now being replaced by a new problem called ‘Presenteeism’. There are those who ...
In fact, there is a serious problem of unemployment in Turkey. Thousands of people are waiting for work and their ranks are being continuously swelled by young people. The problem became even great...
Al Ries is one of the most famous marketing gurus in the world… He has recently been working on ‘differentiation’. Ries, who will come to Turkey on 7 December 2004 for the Purple Cow Conference, ex...
BSH is the third largest manufacturer of large household appliances in the world. Europe accounts for a large proportion of its activities but it has also begun to establish itself in the North Ame...
A powerful ego, excessive self-confidence and an impressive past may not always be the key to success. On the contrary, these characteristics can result in a company and its executive being destroy...
At the end of the first half of the year the annual growth rate stood at 13.5 percent, which means that 2004 is definitely going to be a year of rapid growth. Even if the growth rate in the second ...
The entire world is undergoing a major change. Technology and the terms of business have produced a transformation of the corporate world. When we add to this the new realities in Turkey, the resul...
In recent years Turkish entrepreneurs have proved their global success in exports. Now a major store offensive has begun… Each year Turkish companies are opening tens of new stores everywhere from ...
Orhan Sabuncu is the automotive group chair of Orhan Holding, one of the giants of the Turkish automotive supply industry… He notes that the figures in the automotive market will double in size in ...
In spite of the experiences of recent years there are positive developments. One of these is the attitude and investments of foreign giants in Turkey… Some companies are shifting their investments,...
The best way to see this trend is to go shopping, particularly in supermarkets. Companies’ concerns about things such as distribution, market share, increasing turnover, consumer needs, production ...
Thomas Körmendi is Tetra Pak General Manager for Turkey. He says that in 2003 the group produced 105 billion pieces of packaging worldwide and that in Turkey it sold 1.63 billion. He notes that the...
When it comes to economic takeoff there are few countries which can compete with Turkey. When a crisis or recession starts in another country it lasts for years. But in Turkey every crisis is immed...