Eczacıbaşı Holding is a Turkish industrial group of companies founded in 1942. As of 2023, the Group's 50 companies employ more than 13,500 people, operate 40 production plants, and generate a combined net turnover of TL 33 billion.

Group

Eczacıbaşı's core sectors are building products, pharmaceuticals, consumer products and natural resources. Additionally, the group is active in finance, and real estate. Eczacıbaşı has nationwide distribution networks for pharmaceuticals, building products and fast-moving consumer goods. Internationally, Eczacıbaşı is known for its flagship VitrA brand, a contender in the global bathroom and tile markets. It is also an exporter of tissue paper, pharmaceuticals, and industrial raw materials such as clay, lead, zinc and feldspar. International expansion is a central component of Eczacıbaşı Group's growth strategy. Over the last two decades, Eczacıbaşı has acquired a number of prominent international brands in its core business fields and established new plants for building products, tissue paper and radiopharmaceuticals in a variety of geographies. In 2022, revenue generated in markets outside of Turkey accounted for 59 percent of total sales.

Founder

Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı (1913–1993), the founder of the Eczacıbaşı Group, used to say that "the real measure of private enterprise is its degree of success in raising the prosperity of society." Süleyman Ferit Eczacıbaşı was the first university-educated pharmacist in the city of Izmir and had a long career of public service during the early years of the Turkish Republic. In 1909, the İzmir Provincial Congress gave him the title of "chief pharmacist" (Turkish: baş eczacı.) With the introduction of the Surname Law in 1934, Süleyman Ferit adopted his title "Eczacıbaşı" as his family name.

Companies

Corporate social responsibility

Education

Sports

The Eczacıbaşı Sports Club was founded in 1966 to introduce young people to sports and contribute to the development of sports in Turkey. In subsequent years, the Club not only trained thousands of athletes, but it also played an important role in raising the quality of sports in Turkey to international levels. Today, The Eczacıbaşı Sports Club is focused exclusively on women's volleyball throughout the world. The Eczacıbaşı Sports Club is home to the Eczacıbaşı Dynavit Women's Volleyball Team, the record-holder of Turkey's National Championships and first back-to-back Champion of the FIVB Women's Club World Championship (2015 and 2016). The team has won 28 National Championships, 9 National Cups and played in 12 European Cup Finals, winning the "European Cup Winner's Cup" in 1999. Winning its third straight Turkish Champions Cup title 2020, the team broke a new record by receiving as many as five titles recognizing player performance in the competition. Over the years, the Eczacıbaşı Sports Club has trained countless women volleyball players at private high schools and universities. The club's "Future Spike" program, which it launched in 2016 in collaboration with the ES Volleyball Sports Club, aims to increase young girls' access to sports and encourage them to take up volleyball. In 2018, the Eczacıbaşı Sports Club was awarded the International Olympic Committee's Women and Sports World Trophy for its success in international women's volleyball, for creating opportunities for thousands of young girls to play volleyball, and for striving to increase the presence of women in sports for over 50 tears.

Arts and Culture

Public policy and scientific research

Eczacıbaşı Scientific Research and Medical Award Fund Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı earnestly believed that the business world had a responsibility to support scientific research. As a business leader, he sought to contribute to the development of scientific research in Turkey and productive dialogue between the business world and academic institutions. In 1959, Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı established an award program to recognize, support, and reward high-caliber medical research in Turkey. Presented every two years, the Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Medical Awards has to date given out 35 Medical Science Awards, 44 Medical Incentive Awards, 18 Medical Students Project Awards and 179 Medical Research Awards for research projects. In 2022, a new award category was introduced: the Medical Award in Personalized Medicine. Turkish Informatics Foundation 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 transition to an information-based society.