The advertising sector continues to record double digit growth. In 2007, turnover in the sector grew by 20 percent to YTL 4.1 billion. The sector was boosted by 300 companies who had never advertis...
Sabancı University is a project which initiated by the Sabancı Foundation and on which it has to date spent US$610 million. Güler Sabancı, who is chair of the university’s Board of Trustees, is sat...
Everybody got to know Kibar Holding through Hyundai. Its less popular iron and steel and aluminum businesses have always remained in the background. But Kibar Holding Vice Chairman Ali Kibar is det...
Mikael Bartroff has left his post as Turkey General Manager of IKEA, the famous Swedish furniture brand which opened its first store in Turkey in May 2005. Bartroff is a graduate of the Economics D...
45 years old and married. Sleep seven hours a night, work nine hours a day. Spend an hour each day in the traffic in their Audi. Sometimes take work home. Have regular checkups. Even if they are no...
It is the outsourcing producers who are today behind Turkey’s record-breaking US$105 billion in exports. According to the data from TURKSTAT, one quarter of all companies in Turkey are producing fo...
There are over 210,000 foreigners living in Turkey. Of these, 26,000 work in Turkey and another 25,000 are students. Most of the remainder are the families of foreigners who are working in Turkey o...
The last two years have been a time when the leading funds have settled in Turkey. In 2006 and 2007, fully 14 funds opened offices in Turkey. Funds which, because of the nature of the business, pre...
Some groups have recently caught the eye through the pace of their “rapid growth”. There are even those who have achieved growth of 500 percent through the investments they have made, the new areas...
Sony Türkiye General Manager Mohsen Noohi has spent the last six years of his career at Sony in Istanbul and loves the city so much that he cannot give it up. Noohi is a Briton with Iranian roots a...
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...