Aygaz, founded in 1961 and listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (now Borsa Istanbul) in 1990, is the market leader in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution in Turkey, with a sales volume of 1.7m tonnes and $3.2bn in revenues in 2012...
What factors have contributed to the low domestic savings rate in Turkey, and how might this rate be increased by the new pension law?
Anadolu Efes is the leading producer of beer in Turkey. Together with its 100%-owned subsidiary, Efes Breweries International (EBI), the company operates in Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine. The company also holds a 50.3% stake...
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is heating up in Turkey’s insurance market, as liquid global financial markets encourage multinationals to bid for businesses that are growing faster than the overall economy. While pace of deals is unlikely to match that of 2006-08, when multinationals invested heavily in Turkey’s insurance market,...
Alarko was founded in the 1950s by the Alaton and Garih families as a manufacturer of heating, cooling and air conditioning systems. The two families currently hold 35% and 34% stakes in the company, respectively, and the free float rate stands at 26%. While the contracting business was the focus of the company for several...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the prime minister of Turkey, has an expansive vision of the future of the country’s capital markets. In an April 2013 speech opening the first session of Borsa Istanbul under its new name, he said that the exchange’s restructuring would “reinforce Istanbul’s bid to be a finance centre just like New York, Tokyo and London...
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