Yıldırım Demirören: “Demirören Holding grew stronger with Turkey and is continuing to do so”

Demirören Holding Chairman of the Board Yıldırım Demirören said: “We reached this success with the 100 percent local and national capital principle of our founder and abiding Chairman Mr. Erdoğan Demirören. We continued investing in these lands throughout the most difficult and austere 60 years of economic and industrial growth without losing belief in our country. Demirören Holding grew stronger with Turkey and is continuing to do so.”

Milangaz 2019 Dealers Meeting took place with the motto of, “Full throttle ahead!” Demirören Holding Chairman of the Board Yıldırım Demirören, Demirören Holding Chairman of the Board Deputy Meltem Demirören Oktay, Yıldırım Demirören’s son Demirören Holding Executive Board Member Erdoğan Demirören, Meltem Demirören Oktay’s sons Demirören Holding Executive Board Members Sinan Oktay, Murat Oktay, Executive Board Members Metin Kubat, Koray Yanç and Nejdet Hüddam along with Milangaz dealers participated the meeting organized at a hotel in Şişli. A video in commemoration of the late Demirören Holding Founding Chairman Erdoğan Demirören was displayed at the beginning of the meeting.

Convening at a hotel in Şişli with the motto, “Full throttle ahead!”, the Milangaz 2019 Dealers Meeting brought together the company’s dealers, Demirören Holding Chairman of the Board Yıldırım Demirören, Demirören Holding Chairman of the Board Deputy Meltem Demirören Oktay; Yıldırım Demirören’s son Demirören Holding Executive Board Member Erdoğan Demirören, Meltem Demirören Oktay’s sons Demirören Holding Executive Board Members Sinan Oktay and Murat Oktay and Executive Board Members Metin Kubat, Koray Yanç and Nejdet Hüddam. A video commemoration of the late Demirören Holding Founding Chairman Erdoğan Demirören kicked off the meeting.

“DEMİRÖREN HOLDİNG GREW WITH TURKEY AND IS CONTINUING TO GROW”

Giving the opening speech for the program, Yıldırım Demirören said he remembers Mr. Erdoğan Demirören with “mercy and gratitude.

“It is our main principle to keep walking on our path in full cooperation with our organization and esteemed business partners,” he continued. “Demirören Holding has provided value to the country economy for over 60 years \[and] completed dozens of investments providing employment opportunities to thousands of people. We reached this success with the 100 percent local and national capital principle of our founder and abiding Chairman Mr. Erdoğan Demirören. We continued investing in these lands throughout the most difficult and austere 60 years of economic and industrial growth without losing belief in our country. Demirören Holding grew stronger with Turkey and is continuing to do so.”

“WE REACHED WHERE WE ARE AT TODAY THANKS TO YOUR EFFORTS AND BELIEFS”

“Successes and earnings make us proud, of course,” said Yıldırım Demirören. “However, what makes our cooperation more valuable is running to a common goal hand in hand like a family. Milangaz, as our first investment in the energy sector, grew stronger throughout these 47 years with its business partners the cooperation with which has been ongoing since the time of its foundation. So we reached where we are at today thanks to your efforts and beliefs. The presence of you, our esteemed partners, has enabled us to reach all four corners of our country. Easier said than done: We can now reach 45,000 households every day in 81 provinces from Edirne to Ardahan, Trabzon to Hatay. This means 1 million households in a month and 12 million households annually. We will now chase after a larger goal together. Our goal is to make Milangaz the leader in its sector. That is why we are saying, “Full throttle ahead, hand in hand!” As Demirören Holding, we support the Turkish economy in many sectors ranging from energy to tourism, media to automotive, education to industry, real estate to technology, and we provide added value. We are able to contact with more than 75 million people all over Turkey in these sectors. The synergy \[is] created as such conduces to strengthening all our brands together. We are increasing our sectoral variety day by day. We benefit from the vision and global perspective of our youth which represent the third generation of the Demirören family. We move towards new fields of investment. This ensures that Demirören Holding is a dynamic establishment defying the years that pass by. As we strive to strengthen and grow the Demirören name and thus our mutual assets that we share, you put your hearts and souls to spread out our brands to all four corners of the country. Hence, we believe that we will achieve even greater successes in the times to come with your presence and belief.”

"MİLANGAZ IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST IN TURKEY, A LEADER”

Demirören Holding Executive Board Member Koray Yanç made a speech after Demirören. Yanç evaluated the 2018 activities in his speech stating that “consumption in Turkey during 2018 has exceeded 4 million tons annually. About 725 thousand tons is Milangaz. Of this total amount, 391,000 tons are our own sales. These are LPG cylinder and autogas sales. However, Milangaz is also the supplier for four out of fiveleading companies in the fuel oil sector in Turkey. Many people do not know this. But if you examine the reports of the energy sector, you will see that Milangaz is the supplier for four of the five largest companies listed there and that it is the leader in wholesale trade".

"WE HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER IF WE WANT TO SURVIVE AS ONE TURKEY, ONE FLAG, ONE NATION”

After the dealers expressed their ideas and opinions, Yıldırım Demirören made another brief speech. Yıldırım Demirören said: "Mr. Erdoğan had a motto, something we are proud of, '100 percent local capital'. That is why nothing is better or more natural than all of us looking out for each other. The late Erdoğan taught us this; I and my siblings are now teaching it to our children. If we can earn our daily bread, it is also your bread and so we hold you in high esteem. That is how we grew up. We were introduced to you as our family. And I am now telling the same thing to my children; we will be here for as long as you are there. Today, Demirören Group will continue its struggles against foreigners all the way. We have to look out for each other if we want to survive as one Turkey, one flag, one nation. We have to make use of our own synergies.”

PLAQUES WERE HANDED OUT TO THE DEALERS

Plaques were handed out by Demirören Holding Chairman of the Board Yıldırım Demirören, Demirören Holding Chairman of the Board Deputy Meltem Demirören Oktay and Demirören Holding Executive Board Member Koray Yanç to dealers who completed their 35th year.