CORPORATE

A Centennial Firm: Yildizlar Yatirim Holding A.S.

Yildiz Group, who has broke ground in Forestry Products, Fertilizer, Chemistry, Energy Generation, Insurance Brokerage and Port Operating sectors and has a history for a century, restructured and founded “Yildizlar Yatırım Holding Anonim Sirketi” in order to provide the group companies with acceleration and power in financial, managerial and judicial fields. The Holding Company serves extensively to the companies under its auspices on management, organization and data processing matters at the holding company administration building in Kocaeli.

Administration

The Holding’s management principle is to ensure that all the companies under its umbrella would maintain and develop their managements and existence. Nonetheless, the holding itself undertakes to form principles and supervise on the investment, financing and training matters.

Organizations and Companies

Yildizlar Holding Companies on the top lines of the list declared each year by Istanbul Chamber of Industry. The companies under the holding’s management manufacture decore coated MDF, Melamine-Coated MDF, Laminant Parquet, Painted Parquet, MDF Profile, MDF Door, Door Panel, Backrest Painted, Urea Formaldehyde Resin, Cover Profile, Imoregnated in the field of Forestry Products. It manufactures Formaldehyde, Adhesive, Consantrated Acid, Nitric Acid and Diluted Acid in the field of chemistry. With regard to fertilizers, being the group’s another leading sector, the Holding is Turkey’s first and the only UREA FERTILIZER and AMMONIA PRODUCER. Thanks to the Holding’s composed fertilizer investment completed in 2007, 15.15.15 and 20.20 fertilizers are produced in Kocaeli Facilities. With its second facility in Kutahya, it produces 26% CAN, 33% AN, TAN and PAN Fertilizers. The Holding completed electricity generation investment in order to meet the needs of the companies’ energy and electricity in 2001. The Holding also completed port facilities investment in Kocaeli in order to serve its companies, whose exportation and importation capacity grow, and the third persons, and it has become one of the largest ports of Korfez.

Yildizlar Holding, involved in important projects in Turkey, made decision of investment in the field of forestry products in Russia and Iran so as to have a voice abroad as well. Necessary preparations are conducted to obtain permissions for investments in both territories. and in the meantime.

Data Processing Center

In the field of data processing, it follows the technology based on customer-focused systems. All kinds of services are rendered to the companies and customers through the technological utilities which it established. Upon activation of SAP ERP Corporate Source Planning Program, used by the leading global companies, in all the group companies in 2008, more efficiency is obtained in respect of cost management, production planning and customer pleasure.