Sabancı Holding
| Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1966 |
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Istanbul , Turkey
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| management | Guler Sabancı |
| Number of employees | 45,000 (2005) |
| sales | 15.3 billion US dollars (2008) |
| Branch | Conglomerate |
| Website | www.sabanci.com.tr |
Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş. , abbreviated to Sabancı Holding , is the second largest industrial and financial group in Turkey after Koç Holding and is 78% owned by the Sabancı family.
The holding was founded by the entrepreneur's son Sakıp Sabancı immediately after the death of his father, the successful entrepreneur and founder of the family dynasty Hacı Ömer Sabancı , who made his first investment in 1932 with a stake in a cotton field.
Sabancı Holding controls 65 companies, many of which are national market leaders in their respective fields. The group has 45,000 employees and operates in eleven countries. Twelve companies are listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange ( IMKB ). The holding company holds more than 43% of Akbank , one of Turkey's largest banks, and has stakes in markets such as vehicles, cement, energy, food, insurance, internet services, textiles, tires and tobacco.
Sabancı operates ten joint ventures with Bridgestone , Toyota , Kraft , Bekaert , HeidelbergCement , Carrefour , Dia (sold in 2013), Hilton , Mitsubishi Motors , International Paper and Philip Morris .
The company's headquarters were moved from Adana to Istanbul in 1974 and are located in a twin skyscraper in Levent in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district , the so-called Sabancı Twin Towers . The management board of the holding company is Güler Sabancı , the niece of Sakıp Sabancı and thus the third generation of the Sabancı family. Sakıp Sabancı headed the holding company from its founding in 1967 until his death in 2004. Şevket Sabancı and Erol Sabancı are vice-directors . Other board members are Ömer Sabancı , Sevil Sabancı , Serra Sabancı , Hasan Güleşçi , Nafiz Can Paker and Ahmet Dördüncü , who is currently the company's CEO .
The biggest competitor of Sabancı Holding is Koç Holding .
Terrorist attack
In 1996, Özdemir Sabancı was murdered by members of the DHKP-C in his office in the Sabancı Twin Towers, along with his secretary Nilgün Hasefe and business partner Haluk Gorgun . The terrorists were given access to the heavily guarded building through Fehriye Erdal , a sympathizer who was working in the building as a student at the time.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 41 ° 5 ′ 6 ″ N , 29 ° 0 ′ 37 ″ E