ÇALIK HOLDING
Çalik Holding located in Istanbul focuses on major business lines such as construction, energy, textiles, finance, telecom and media and provides high value added, world-ranking products and services to its customer group including associated local and international corporations and private end-users.
Çalik Holding employs around 19.855 employees with its business initiatives in different countries. Holding, with a high degree of environmental awareness, respect for social values, and a strong sense of corporate social responsibility, is focused on creating more added values for all its stakeholders through a rapid and effective growth model based on the principle spreading its fields of operation into different geographies and sectors.
Çalik Holding keeps its employees and values in perspective. The Group’s primary responsibility is to create value for its stakeholders by acting in line with its vision and mission and to be a good model and reputable corporate entity with its way of behavior and values.
Achievement motive, honesty, transparency, customer satisfaction, globalization and a contribution to the society are the basic values and driving forces of Çalik Holding’s corporate strategy.
Energy:
A structure that ensures sustainable growth
Since it was established within the Çalik Holding in 1998, Çalik Enerji has ensured a stable and steady growth and become one of the most successful touchstones of Çalik vision. Çalik Holding is an active international player in electricity, petroleum, natural gas and telecommunications with operations in Turkey and Turkmenistan as well as in other countries. In the wake of its first natural gas venture in the province of Bursa in Turkey (Bursagaz), the Group follows up that success with another natural gas distribution company in Kayseri (Kayserigaz). Having also undertaken the Samsun-Adana Ceyhan Crude Oil Pipeline Project and Ceyhan Refinery Project, Çalik Holding will be maintaining its leading presence in the energy sector for many years to come.
http://www.calikenerji.com/
Construction:
Investments with the strength to build tomorrow today…
In the scope of its activities in the construction sector, Çalik Holding undertakes turnkey production projects in textiles and other industrial applications; construction of housing, hospitals, schools, business centers, social facilities, and roads and highways; and urban transformation projects.
Construction Group which is the fastest-growing of Çalik Holding’s business lines, makes a name for itself with the large-scale industrial projects that it has successfully completed to make it a name that is frequently mentioned in both national and international arenas.
GAP Insaat submitted tenders on the Tarlabasi and Balat Urban Transformation Projects that are to be undertaken in Turkey for the first time and became entitled to be the contractor of aforesaid projects.
The momentum created by the ever accelerating success with the international projects carries Çalik Holding to the top of this field. The Group is currently undertaking large-scale projects not just in Turkey but also in Central Asia, Arabian Peninsula and Africa. Gap Insaat’s success on the international platform was confirmed once again when the company was ranked 163rd in Engineering News Record magazine’s list of the world’s best 225 contractor companies report in 2009.
http://www.gapinsaat.com
Textiles:
A leading manufacturer of denim cloth in the world markets…
Çalik Holding continues to be a leader of its original business line, the textile sector. As an internationally preferred manufacturer of denim cloth with integrated facilities in Malatya, Turkey and Turkmenistan, the Group is a global player capable of competing at world levels of volume and quality in textile products ranging from basic cotton yarns all the way to finished ready-to-wear garments.
The global textile companies in the Çalik Holding are capable of reaching the world markets in a wide geographic area. Recognition of Çalik trademark in textiles is growing steadily not just in Turkey, but also in countries ranging from the United States to the European Union, from Russia to the Far East, and from North Africa to the Balkans.
http://www.calikdenim.com
Financial Services:
Çalik difference in investment banking...
Çalik Holding enjoys a prestigious and pioneering position in the business of investment banking through Aktif Bank and the Group’s growth in this business line has been steady. In 2006 Çalik Holding undertook its first international initiative in financial services when it added Banka Kombetare Tregtare (BKT), one of the most highly respected banks of in Albania and took a very important step in both national and international terms. A new branch opened in Pristine, Kosovo in November 2007 is the first foreign investment of BKT.
Çalik Holding intends to further increase its activities in the business of financial services in order to add greater depth to its investment banking operations.
http://www.aktifbank.com
http://www.bkt.com.al
Telecom:
Strong player owning and operating its own infrastructure…
Another business line of Çalik Holding is telecom. The company undertakes all its telecommunications projects through its subsidiary CETEL. It pursues a strategy of making itself a strong player owning and operating its own infrastructure in Turkey and its hinterland.
At the focal point of this strategy are the principles of acquiring companies that come up for privatization and providing added value services by installing and operating broadband infrastructure in metropolitan areas where the company has a presence.
In 2005, Holding joined the privatization tender of Albtelecom, the biggest landline operator of Albania, and acquired stakes of the company in September 2007. Today, the company also owns the brand new and the fastest market entrance mobile operator of Albania, Eagle Mobile.
Both companies aim to give the best quality services with the most appropriate prices to their 913.000 subscribers.
http://www.albtelecom.al
http://www.eaglemobile.al
Media:
Turkey’s leading media group...
Çalik Holding entered the tender for the sale of ATV-Sabah Commercial and Economical Unity held on 5th of December 2007 and acquired all its rights and assets for 1.1 billion USD on behalf of Turkuvaz A.S. on 22nd of April 2008. As a result, Turkuvaz Media Group has become one of the largest media groups in Turkey which now owns ATV, Atv Avrupa Televisions, Radyo City, Sabah, Sabah Avrupa, Takvim, Günaydin, Yeni Asir, and Pas Fotomaç newspapers, Ams Auto Classic, Auto Katalog, Auto Motor & Sport, Bebegim ve Biz, Cosmo Girl, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan Bride, Esquire, Forbes, Global Enerji, Harper’s Bazaar, Home Art, House Beautiful, Para, Sinema, Sofra, Transport, Samdan Plus, Yeni Aktüel, Motorrad Katalog, Oto Haber, Oto Haber Test Yilligi, Kumsal and Juridical Perspectives magazines and Turkuvaz Distribution.
Turkuvaz Media Group bases its broadcasting policy and strategy on high ethical standards and is committed to build on and expand the success of its broadcasting venture under the leaderships of Atv and Sabah.
http://www.turkuvazyayin.com.tr
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