Since its establishment in 1942, the Eczacıbaşı Group has sought to serve its community through the establishment and sponsorship of non-profit institutions involved in culture and the arts, education, scientific research, public policy and sports.
The Eczacıbaşı Group's association with the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts dates back to the Foundation's establishment, on the initiative of Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı, more than 40 years ago. Over this period, the Group helped to create widespread appreciation in Turkey of classical music through its support of the Istanbul Festival and, over the last 10 years, as Festival Sponsor of its successor, the Istanbul Music Festival.
Starting in 2006, the Eczacıbaşı Group has taken on a new and expanded role as the Leading Sponsor of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. As Leading Sponsor, the Eczacıbaşı Group contributes to the success of the Istanbul Biennial, Design Biennial, and the Film, Theater, and Jazz Festivals as well as the Music Festival, thus broadening its support of these cultural events and its platform for communicating with art lovers.
In addition to supporting the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, the Eczacıbaşı Group is a founder and principal sponsor of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art and the Izmir Foundation for Culture.
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Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s national flag carrier was founded in Ankara on May 20, 1933 under the name of “State Airlines Administration” and started its operations depending on Ministry of Defense. In 1955, it was restructured into “Turkish Airlines”. 25% of the company is sold under the privatization program in 2005. Today 49.1 % of the company is owned by Privatization Administration and the rest of the shares are on free float.
Turkish Airlines, one of the fastest growing airline companies of Europe has put signature to the record by new routes and joined Star Alliance on April 1st, 2008.
Turkish Airlines, with fleet consisted of 169 aircraft; organize flights to total 182 points including 141 in international and 41 domestic lines. Thus, Turkish Airlines is a member of the Star Alliance network which was established in 1997. Overall, the Star Alliance network offers 21,050 daily flights to 1167 destinations in 181 countries.
In order to keep alive its brand equity, which provides a serious advantage in terms of competition, Turkish Airlines focuses on the investments that support its brand equity such as offering quality, entertainment systems within the aircrafts, comfortable seats, aesthetics and quality of presentation, investments in personnel having high profiles. THY follows the technological innovations and, with its developing and growing fleet, carries out works that also support the training of its employees.
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The biggest international mobile communication company of the world, Vodafone operates in 31 countries and has network partnership in 40 countries. As the most valuable telecommunication brand of the world, Vodafone is the 7th most valuable brand based on all industries. As of April 30, 2010, Vodafone has approximately 342 million customers worldwide.
Vodafone operates in Turkey since May 2006. Operating with the vision to be a communication company appreciated by its customers, today, Vodafone Turkey has approximately 2.500 employees, more than 1.700 stores, approximately 18.000 points of sale and a stakeholder family of 30.000 people.
In addition to the acquisition investment of US$ 4.5 billion since 2006, Vodafone Turkey has carried out a strong investment in Turkey with the figures of US$ 1.2 billion between the years 2006 and 2008 and TL 1.3 billion during 2009 with the priority given to 3G technology.
Being the 2nd biggest operator in Turkey with 15.7 million subscribers, Vodafone Turkey is the leader operator in mobile number portability. Vodafone Turkey continues to work for creating a difference with the innovative and advantageous services for the needs of the customers.
With a population coverage of 98.3% in Turkey and as the leader operator of the world in 3G, Vodafone transfers its international experience and knowledge to Turkey. Vodafone offers 3G services with approximate population coverage of 70% at the centre of 81 provinces over the state-of-the-art technology HSPA+ network. Vodafone Turkey intensely continues the innovation focused works with the R&D company Vodafone Technology established within the structure of the parent company.
Vodafone Turkey implements several corporate social responsibility projects by continuing the activities towards the improvement of the society as a responsible corporate citizen through Vodafone Turkey Foundation. Vodafone Turkey Foundation has realized an investment of TL 8 million since its foundation in 2007 for the projects accelerating the transformation of Turkey into an information society.
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DHL, a leader in Express cargo delivery and logistic sector, provides its customers with innovative and tailor-made solutions. DHL combines its international experience in air-sea and land delivery with its expertise in local markets and serves in over 220 countries and centres through its harmonized service network.
DHL, which is a technology company, has over 160.000 staff and aims to provide a fast and reliable level of service exceeding even the customers' expectations. The HQ of DHL is located in Brussels-Belgium and it is a 100 percent subsidiary of Deutsche Post World Net.
31st International Ä°stanbul Film Festival
18th International Ä°stanbul Theatre Festival
40th International Ä°stanbul Music Festival
18th International Ä°stanbul Jazz Festival
12th International Ä°stanbul Biennial
Ä°stanbul Design Biennial Co-Sponsors
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