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...
In sectors where competition is intense, where foreigners are showing a lot of interest and which have the potential for growth, executives are being given high salary packages. This has resulted i...
Melih Türker is the new CEO of Petrol Ofisi… Türker began his new job in June and is very upbeat. He says that his target is to double or triple the value of Petrol Ofisi within 5-6 years. He state...
Interest in renewable sources of energy is continually increasing. This interest is being driven by the reality that in 50 years’ time the classic sources of energy will have been exhausted. The fa...
The era of the authoritarian leader who single-handedly takes all decisions is over. Now CEOs are much more tolerant and sharing than 5-10 years ago. They extol team spirit and listen to their empl...
Chuck Prince is the CEO of Citigroup, one of the leading financial institutions in the world. He is responsible for the management of a $89.6 billion company. Prince believes that Turkey is making ...
Hamdi Akın has been one of the most successful entrepreneurs of modern times. In recent years he has come to prominence through the investments he has made in various sectors. He has entered a larg...
Muhtar Kent is the President and CEO of the global giant Coca Cola. He is regarded as one of the leading candidates for the post of CEO. He says that other Turkish executives can achieve the succes...
Even though the sizes of the sectors in Turkey are small compared with developed countries, there are more players. But analysts say that this situation is a product of the development process. Som...
Design is one of the most important elements in branding and growth. Companies now use ‘design’ as a tool which expresses their product’s and service’s difference, functions and quality. In the res...