Eczacibasi
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Eczacıbaşı Holding is a prominent Turkish
industrial group of companies founded in 1942 by Eczacıbaşı family
. The group with 39 companies has 10,100 employees and a combined net turnover of € 2.1 billion in 2010.
International partnership is a central component of the Eczacıbaşı Group’s growth strategy. Eczacıbaşı has 12 international joint ventures and numerous cooperation agreements with leading international companies. All of these are grounded on the principle of long-term mutual benefit, based on firm business criteria and ethical business practices.
Süleyman Ferit Eczacıbaşı was the first university-educated pharmacist in the city of Izmir and distinguished himself with a long career of public service during the early years of the Turkish Republic.
The Eczacıbaşı Group and the Association in Support of Contemporary Living (ÇYDD), one of Turkey’s leading educational NGOs, are cooperating on a major initiative to provide primary school children at state-run boarding schools a modern, high quality and healthy environment. As a partner in the project, the Eczacıbaşı Group is designing new bathrooms for primary boarding schools in eastern Turkey and equipping them with VitrA and Artema products. It is also providing personal hygiene education to students at these schools through İpek Kağıt’s “Primary School Personal Hygiene Education Program”. Eczacıbaşı Volunteers, the Group’s volunteer program, is collecting school materials for students and organizing supplementary activities, including educational trips to Istanbul for high achievers.
The 30 schools involved in the first phase of the project through 2010 are located in Artvin, Bitlis, Erzincan, Giresun, Hakkari, Muş, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Tunceli and Van. In addition to designing new bathrooms, Eczacıbaşı Building Products’ architects are redesigning the plumbing infrastructure of these schools. The governors, educational directorates and district officials of these provinces are also providing support to the project.
The Turkish Foundation of Education Volunteers (TEGV)
The Eczacıbaşı Group contributes regularly to this NGO through direct budgeting or special fund-raising events, like the 2002 auction of ceramic statues created by the VitrA Ceramic Art Studio.
Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation Music Scholarships
These scholarships enable outstanding young Turkish musicians to pursue graduate musical studies abroad. To date, the Foundation has provided financial support to 85 musicians studying a wide range of instruments as well as orchestration, direction and composition.
Primary School Sponsorship
The Eczacıbaşı Group has built four primary schools for the Turkish public school system to which it provides annual funding. Around 4200 students attend these schools.
Eczacıbaşı Sports School
The Eczacıbaşı Sports School teaches volleyball to young girls in the 6-14 age group, who often have less access to organized sports. It also assists young girls develop their motor and coordination skills.
Reproductive Health Hotline
In 2000, Eczacıbaşı Pharmaceuticals Marketing established a free, 24-hour reproductive health hotline (ALO-OKEY) with the Family Planning Association of Turkey. The aim of the hotline is to enhance public access to professional and accurate information about reproductive health.
Since 1968, the women’s volleyball team has won 27 National Championships, seven National Cups and played in eight European Cup Finals, winning the “European Cup Winner’s Cup” in 1999. In addition to its A-team, the Club has three junior teams that have contributed players over the years to the A team, other first division teams and the Turkish National Volleyball Team. http://www.eczacibasisporkulubu.org.tr/
http://www.istanbulmodern.org
The Eczacıbaşı Group is the founder of Turkey’s first privately-funded museum of modern art, to which it provided the initial investment and project management finance as well as the core collection of paintings.
İstanbul Modern is a dynamic and multifaceted museum committed to preserving and exhibiting Turkey’s heritage of modern and contemporary art and to fostering an appreciation of its artistic creativity and modern cultural identity. Open to change, the Museum seeks to reach a wide and continuing audience and to promote Turkey’s artistic production within the international art scene. İstanbul Museum of Modern Art.
Using a combined chronological and thematic exhibition design of its permanent collection, İstanbul Modern showcases the major trends and styles of modern and contemporary Turkish art through their foremost exponents. Additionally, the Museum organizes temporary retrospective exhibitions of Turkish modern masters and of internationally acclaimed artists that reflect the most recent trends in worldwide art. All of these exhibitions aim to strengthen the bond between the Turkish and international art scene and serve as a platform to introduce Turkish artists to the rest of the art world. İstanbul Modern also organizes periodic exhibitions of photography, video and modern Turkish sculpture in addition to thematic film programs.
İstanbul Modern is the only museum in Turkey with a mission to appeal to the mass public through a diverse and dynamic program of learning opportunities and cultural events. To date, more than 400 thousand students have participated in the educational programs organized by İstanbul Modern’s Educational and Social Projects Department in the Museum and around the city. Overall, almost two million people have visited the Museum’s exhibitions during its first two-and-a-half years of activities. www.istanbulmodern.org
Eczacıbaşı Virtual Museum
http://www.sanalmuze.org/indexeng.php The Eczacıbaşı Group has long been committed to raising public awareness and appreciation of Turkish modern art. To this end, it has developed one of the largest permanent collections of abstract and figurative work by Turkish painters, which it has sought to exhibit in a variety of forums.
In 1999, in an effort to increase public access to this collection and other paintings, the Group established a virtual museum of Turkish visual art. In line with contemporary museum norms, the Eczacıbaşı Virtual Museum contains both permanent and temporary collections supplemented by curatorial text.
www.sanalmuze.org
İstanbul International Music, Film, Jazz, Theatre and Visual Art Festivals
http://www.iksv.org/english/ The Eczacıbaşı Group is a staunch supporter of the İstanbul International Festivals, both through its sponsorship of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts, founded in 1973 on the initiative of Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı, and its direct patronage of selected festivals. In particular, the Eczacıbaşı Group’s unwavering support of the Istanbul International Music Festival has contributed greatly to its growing international prestige. Starting in 2006, Eczacıbaşı has become the Leading Sponsor of the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. In its new role, Eczacıbaşı Holding will contribute to the International Istanbul Film, Theatre and Jazz Festivals as well as the Music Festival, enhancing its involvement in the Foundation and broadening its communication with art lovers. www.iksv.org
VitrA Ceramic Arts Studio
Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı established the VitrA Ceramic Art Studio in 1957, with the goal of encouraging ceramic artists and public appreciation of this medium. Over the years, the VitrA Ceramic Arts Studio has opened its doors to a large number of young and talented ceramic artists, organized public exhibitions of their work and hosted master classes, conferences, slide shows and workshops on ceramic art. The VitrA Ceramic Arts Studio is a member of the Geneva-based International Academy of Ceramics (IAC).
Eczacıbaşı Arts Encyclopedia
Published in 1997 by the Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation, the Eczacıbaşı Arts Encyclopedia is a three-volume work on international art and architecture that begins with pre-historic Anatolian cultures and focuses especially on the Byzantine, Seljuk, Beylik, Ottoman and Republican periods in Turkey. About 250 researchers, writers and university faculty worked on the project, which contains 4,400 articles.
The Eczacıbaşı Group established this fund in 1959 to promote high caliber medical research. To date, the fund has supported 171 medical research projects and presented 65 awards to Turkish scientists for valuable research in health and medicine. Since 2002, the Scientific Research and Medical Award Fund is also supporting promising research carried out by medical students.
The Eczacıbaşı Scientific Research and Medical Award Funds are presented every two years at Eczacıbaşı Medical Day. This biannual event organized by the Eczacıbaşı Group aims to provide a forum for scientists and health professionals in Turkey to discuss current medical topics and developments in the health sector and to recognize the valuable medical and health-related research of their colleagues. More than 700 people attended the third Eczacıbaşı Medical Day in 2006, which focused on new treatment approaches to dermatological diseases.
Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)
Eczacıbaşı is an active supporter of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, an independent, non-profit think-tank dedicated to conducting and supporting research on public policy issues. TESEV is the successor of the Economic and Social Studies Conference Board, which Dr. Eczacıbaşı founded in 1961. Every year, the Eczacıbaşı Group sponsors a competition organized by TESEV to promote public policy-oriented research and encourage young researchers in this field.
Turkish Informatics Foundation
http://www.tbv.org.tr/en/ The Eczacıbaşı Group is a corporate sponsor of the Turkish Informatics Foundation, established in 1995 through the efforts of the Group’s vice-chairman, Faruk Eczacıbaşı, also the foundation’s current chairman. The foundation’s main goal is to contribute to the development of the legal, technical and physical infrastructure required for Turkey’s full transition to an information-based society.
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industrial group of companies founded in 1942 by Eczacıbaşı family
Eczacıbaşı family
The Eczabaşıbaşı family is a dynasty of Turkish businesspeople founded by Süleyman Ferit Eczacıbaşı, a self-made wealthy pharmacist. Third generation members of the family control today Turkey’s prestigious companies, established mostly by the efforts of his son Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı...
. The group with 39 companies has 10,100 employees and a combined net turnover of € 2.1 billion in 2010.
Group
Eczacıbaşı’s core sectors are building products, pharmaceuticals and consumer products. Additionally, the group is active in finance, information technology, welding technology and real estate. In Turkey, Eczacıbaşı is the leader in most of its businesses and has distribution networks for pharmaceuticals, building products and fast-moving consumer goods that are among the strongest in their sectors. Internationally, Eczacıbaşı is best known for its flagship VitrA brand, a powerful contender in global bathroom and tile markets. It is also a major exporter of tissue paper, pharmaceuticals, welding electrodes, electronic smart cards and industrial raw materials such as clay and feldspar.International partnership is a central component of the Eczacıbaşı Group’s growth strategy. Eczacıbaşı has 12 international joint ventures and numerous cooperation agreements with leading international companies. All of these are grounded on the principle of long-term mutual benefit, based on firm business criteria and ethical business practices.
Founder
Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı (1913–1993), the founder of the Eczacıbaşı Group, used to say that "the real measure of private entrepreneurship is the success with which it increases the wealth of the community as a whole".
Süleyman Ferit Eczacıbaşı was the first university-educated pharmacist in the city of Izmir and distinguished himself with a long career of public service during the early years of the Turkish Republic.
Companies
- Building Products
- Burgbad AG http://www.burgbad.de/
- Eczacıbaşı Building Products
- Engers Keramik GmbH http://www.engerskeramik.de/
- İntema Building Products http://www.intema.com.tr/
- V&B Fliesen GmbH http://www.villeroy-boch.com/en/home/products/tiles.html
- VitrA Tiles http://www.vitra.com.tr/default.aspx
- VitrA UK
- VitrA Bad GmbH
- VitrA (USA)
- VitrA Tiles LLC (Russia)
- Pharmaceuticals
- Eczacıbaşı Baxter Hospital Supply http://www.eczacibasi-baxter.com.tr/eng/home/default.aspx
- Eczacıbaşı Health Services http://www.eczacibasisaglik.com/home/default.aspx
- Eczacıbaşı Health Care Products JSC
- Eczacıbaşı Monrol Nuclear Products http://www.monrol.com/
- Eczacıbaşı Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing
- Eczacıbaşı Pharmaceuticals Marketing http://www.eip.com.tr/Home/default.aspx
- Eczacıbaşı Pharmaceuticals Trading
- Consumer Products
- Eczacıbaşı Beiersdorf http://www.nivea.com.tr/gateway/?show=gateway
- Eczacıbaşı Girişim http://www.girisimpazarlama.com.tr/about.html
- Eczacıbaşı Schwarzkopf http://www.eczacibasi-schwarzkopf.com.tr/
- İpek Kağıt Tissue Paper http://www.ipekkagit.com.tr/ing/index.htm
- İpek Kağıt Tissue Paper (Kazakhstan)
- Finance
- Eczacıbaşı Investment Holding
- Eczacıbaşı Investment Partnership
- Eczacıbaşı Securities http://www.emdas.com.tr/wps/portal
- Eczacıbaşı Asset Management http://www.eczacibasiubp.com.tr/
- Eczacıbaşı Pharmaceutical and Industrial Investment
- Eczacıbaşı Insurance Agency
- Information Technology
- E-Kart Electronic Card Systems http://www.e-kart.com.tr/
- Eczacıbaşı Information and Communication Technologies http://www.ebi.com.tr/
- Others
- Kaynak Tekniği Welding Electrodes http://www.askaynak.com.tr/Asp/Anasayfa/anasayfa.asp
- Eczacıbaşı Property Development and Investment
- Eczacıbaşı Esanhttp://www.eczacibasiesan.com.tr
- Eczacıbaşı Esan Italia
- Ekom Eczacıbaşı Foreign Trade
- Yapı-İş Real Estate and Construction
- Kanyon Management and Marketing http://www.kanyon.com.tr/
Brands
| 8x4 | Artema | Askaynak | Bonacure | Brittex | Burgbad | Daylong | Defans | Demak Up | Detan | Dreumex | E-Kart | Egos | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emsal | Engers | Erdal | Evde Bakım | Frosch | Igora | Indola | İntema Mutfak | Kanyon | Kobatek | Lincoln | Lotus Professional | Maratem | Marathon |
| Monrol | Natural Styling | Nexcare | Nivea | OK | Oralet | Osis | Philips | Racumin | Revivogen | Seah | Scotch Brite | Scotch Gard | Selin |
| Selin Moments | Selpak | Servis | Silen | Silhouette | Solo | Tana | Tasdix | Vicks | Villeroy & Boch | VitrA | VitrA Fix | ||
Eczacıbaşı and Community
Corporate citizenship is a fundamental component of the Eczacıbaşı Group’s identity that derives from the Eczacıbaşı family’s tradition of community service and pioneering role in the development of modern Turkish industry and institutions.Education
Hygiene Project for Primary Boarding SchoolsThe Eczacıbaşı Group and the Association in Support of Contemporary Living (ÇYDD), one of Turkey’s leading educational NGOs, are cooperating on a major initiative to provide primary school children at state-run boarding schools a modern, high quality and healthy environment. As a partner in the project, the Eczacıbaşı Group is designing new bathrooms for primary boarding schools in eastern Turkey and equipping them with VitrA and Artema products. It is also providing personal hygiene education to students at these schools through İpek Kağıt’s “Primary School Personal Hygiene Education Program”. Eczacıbaşı Volunteers, the Group’s volunteer program, is collecting school materials for students and organizing supplementary activities, including educational trips to Istanbul for high achievers.
The 30 schools involved in the first phase of the project through 2010 are located in Artvin, Bitlis, Erzincan, Giresun, Hakkari, Muş, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Tunceli and Van. In addition to designing new bathrooms, Eczacıbaşı Building Products’ architects are redesigning the plumbing infrastructure of these schools. The governors, educational directorates and district officials of these provinces are also providing support to the project.
The Turkish Foundation of Education Volunteers (TEGV)
The Eczacıbaşı Group contributes regularly to this NGO through direct budgeting or special fund-raising events, like the 2002 auction of ceramic statues created by the VitrA Ceramic Art Studio.
Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation Music Scholarships
These scholarships enable outstanding young Turkish musicians to pursue graduate musical studies abroad. To date, the Foundation has provided financial support to 85 musicians studying a wide range of instruments as well as orchestration, direction and composition.
Primary School Sponsorship
The Eczacıbaşı Group has built four primary schools for the Turkish public school system to which it provides annual funding. Around 4200 students attend these schools.
Eczacıbaşı Sports School
The Eczacıbaşı Sports School teaches volleyball to young girls in the 6-14 age group, who often have less access to organized sports. It also assists young girls develop their motor and coordination skills.
Reproductive Health Hotline
In 2000, Eczacıbaşı Pharmaceuticals Marketing established a free, 24-hour reproductive health hotline (ALO-OKEY) with the Family Planning Association of Turkey. The aim of the hotline is to enhance public access to professional and accurate information about reproductive health.
Sport
Established in 1966, the Eczacıbaşı Sports Club single-handedly trained many of Turkey’s best sportsmen and women in the fields of basketball, volleyball, gymnastics and table tennis before focusing its resources exclusively on women’s volleyball in the early 1990s. During this period, the Club won 13 National Championships in table tennis, eight National Championships in men’s basketball, 12 National Championships in men’s volleyball, and three National Championships in chess.Since 1968, the women’s volleyball team has won 27 National Championships, seven National Cups and played in eight European Cup Finals, winning the “European Cup Winner’s Cup” in 1999. In addition to its A-team, the Club has three junior teams that have contributed players over the years to the A team, other first division teams and the Turkish National Volleyball Team. http://www.eczacibasisporkulubu.org.tr/
Arts and Culture
Istanbul Museum Of Modern Arthttp://www.istanbulmodern.org
The Eczacıbaşı Group is the founder of Turkey’s first privately-funded museum of modern art, to which it provided the initial investment and project management finance as well as the core collection of paintings.
İstanbul Modern is a dynamic and multifaceted museum committed to preserving and exhibiting Turkey’s heritage of modern and contemporary art and to fostering an appreciation of its artistic creativity and modern cultural identity. Open to change, the Museum seeks to reach a wide and continuing audience and to promote Turkey’s artistic production within the international art scene. İstanbul Museum of Modern Art.
Using a combined chronological and thematic exhibition design of its permanent collection, İstanbul Modern showcases the major trends and styles of modern and contemporary Turkish art through their foremost exponents. Additionally, the Museum organizes temporary retrospective exhibitions of Turkish modern masters and of internationally acclaimed artists that reflect the most recent trends in worldwide art. All of these exhibitions aim to strengthen the bond between the Turkish and international art scene and serve as a platform to introduce Turkish artists to the rest of the art world. İstanbul Modern also organizes periodic exhibitions of photography, video and modern Turkish sculpture in addition to thematic film programs.
İstanbul Modern is the only museum in Turkey with a mission to appeal to the mass public through a diverse and dynamic program of learning opportunities and cultural events. To date, more than 400 thousand students have participated in the educational programs organized by İstanbul Modern’s Educational and Social Projects Department in the Museum and around the city. Overall, almost two million people have visited the Museum’s exhibitions during its first two-and-a-half years of activities. www.istanbulmodern.org
Eczacıbaşı Virtual Museum
http://www.sanalmuze.org/indexeng.php The Eczacıbaşı Group has long been committed to raising public awareness and appreciation of Turkish modern art. To this end, it has developed one of the largest permanent collections of abstract and figurative work by Turkish painters, which it has sought to exhibit in a variety of forums.
In 1999, in an effort to increase public access to this collection and other paintings, the Group established a virtual museum of Turkish visual art. In line with contemporary museum norms, the Eczacıbaşı Virtual Museum contains both permanent and temporary collections supplemented by curatorial text.
www.sanalmuze.org
İstanbul International Music, Film, Jazz, Theatre and Visual Art Festivals
http://www.iksv.org/english/ The Eczacıbaşı Group is a staunch supporter of the İstanbul International Festivals, both through its sponsorship of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts, founded in 1973 on the initiative of Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı, and its direct patronage of selected festivals. In particular, the Eczacıbaşı Group’s unwavering support of the Istanbul International Music Festival has contributed greatly to its growing international prestige. Starting in 2006, Eczacıbaşı has become the Leading Sponsor of the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. In its new role, Eczacıbaşı Holding will contribute to the International Istanbul Film, Theatre and Jazz Festivals as well as the Music Festival, enhancing its involvement in the Foundation and broadening its communication with art lovers. www.iksv.org
VitrA Ceramic Arts Studio
Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı established the VitrA Ceramic Art Studio in 1957, with the goal of encouraging ceramic artists and public appreciation of this medium. Over the years, the VitrA Ceramic Arts Studio has opened its doors to a large number of young and talented ceramic artists, organized public exhibitions of their work and hosted master classes, conferences, slide shows and workshops on ceramic art. The VitrA Ceramic Arts Studio is a member of the Geneva-based International Academy of Ceramics (IAC).
Eczacıbaşı Arts Encyclopedia
Published in 1997 by the Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation, the Eczacıbaşı Arts Encyclopedia is a three-volume work on international art and architecture that begins with pre-historic Anatolian cultures and focuses especially on the Byzantine, Seljuk, Beylik, Ottoman and Republican periods in Turkey. About 250 researchers, writers and university faculty worked on the project, which contains 4,400 articles.
Public Policy and Scientific Research
Eczacıbaşı Scientific Research and Medical Award FundThe Eczacıbaşı Group established this fund in 1959 to promote high caliber medical research. To date, the fund has supported 171 medical research projects and presented 65 awards to Turkish scientists for valuable research in health and medicine. Since 2002, the Scientific Research and Medical Award Fund is also supporting promising research carried out by medical students.
The Eczacıbaşı Scientific Research and Medical Award Funds are presented every two years at Eczacıbaşı Medical Day. This biannual event organized by the Eczacıbaşı Group aims to provide a forum for scientists and health professionals in Turkey to discuss current medical topics and developments in the health sector and to recognize the valuable medical and health-related research of their colleagues. More than 700 people attended the third Eczacıbaşı Medical Day in 2006, which focused on new treatment approaches to dermatological diseases.
Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)
Eczacıbaşı is an active supporter of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, an independent, non-profit think-tank dedicated to conducting and supporting research on public policy issues. TESEV is the successor of the Economic and Social Studies Conference Board, which Dr. Eczacıbaşı founded in 1961. Every year, the Eczacıbaşı Group sponsors a competition organized by TESEV to promote public policy-oriented research and encourage young researchers in this field.
Turkish Informatics Foundation
http://www.tbv.org.tr/en/ The Eczacıbaşı Group is a corporate sponsor of the Turkish Informatics Foundation, established in 1995 through the efforts of the Group’s vice-chairman, Faruk Eczacıbaşı, also the foundation’s current chairman. The foundation’s main goal is to contribute to the development of the legal, technical and physical infrastructure required for Turkey’s full transition to an information-based society.