THE MOST FAMOUS
AND YOUNGEST
ENTREPRENEURS IN
TURKEY
CEMALETDİN SARAR (1944alive)
• Cemalettin Sarar (April 19, 1944,
Eskisehi) is a graduate of Eskisehir
Commerce High School. He is also
Chairman of Sarar Clothing San.ve
Tic. Inc. and Eskisehir Chamber of
Commerce.
• His business life
• He started his business life at a young age
continued trading for many years. For
years, his did tailor-apparel business in the
stores inherited from his father. He
together with his brothers decided to
adapt a manufacturing factory in 1983. He
created a rapidly growing “Sarar” brand.
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The tasks he has taken over are as follows:
Head of ETO
TOBB High Coordination Board Member
Istanbul Textile-Apparel Exporters' Association
Board Member,
Uludag Exporters' Association Board Member,
Turkey Clothing Manufacturers' Association
Membership
Member of United Brands Association,
Board Member of the Federation of Athletics
Notable awards
• “Businessman of the Year”,Economist
Magazine in 2001
• “Business Man of the Year”, 2002, Istanbul
Faculty of Business,
• “Entrepreneur of the Year 2003” Dünya
Gazetesi
• “Turquality Award” in 2004”
• “Consumer Quality Award in 2004”
• In 2007 [Turkish standards institute],
“prize of gold brand in textile category”
HANDE ÇAYDAŞI (35) (The
Young and Successful
Entrepreneur of in 2010)
• The founder of Bebeshop
• HANDE Çaydaşı, graduated from
Department of Business of Marmara
University. She preferred to work in the
banking sector as her many friends did.
Let alone complaining about her job, she
loves it. A bright career waiting for her...
• In 2004, she became a mother. And her
life direction changed. She wanted to buy
many healthy, high quality and functional
mother-child products, but she had
difficulties finding the products she
needed in Turkey. Being a new mother it
was difficult to search for the markets. For
that reason she searched various
companies in various countries for them
on the Internet, begin to order these
goods.
• After starting work following parental
leave, she thought that she got bored in
banking sector. Then she thought why not
to sell the products that she had ordered
on the internet. Not waiting much, she
established “Bebeshop.com.tr” and started
sales in 2005. Business grew faster than
she expected. "We believed and loved this
business”, says Caydası. She adds not only
a commercial but also a mother's point of
view also makes a significant impact on
her success.
• At the end of the first year she started
activities, it was seen that Bebeshop'un
sold 500 different products, the number of
members were over 1500. In following
years, these figures increased steadily and
currently around 8 thousand different
products are sold on the site, the number
of members is currently 30 thousand. And
last year's turnover has increased over 2
million TL. Among the next targets of
Bebeshop are increasing the number of
members and the turnover figures, as well
as increasing the products it
manufactures.
SAUL ALP (39) (the youngest
and most successful entrepreneur
of the year in 2010)
• Pronet'in founder
• Alpine Saul, developed the idea
Pronet, in America when he was a
student there. two things Attracted
his attention. The First one was that
setting up a job didn’t require a
much... Second, in turkey there was a
gap in this field ...
• In the end Pronet with a capital of 10
thousand dollars was established 16
years ago. Alpine Saul gave the half the
money, the other two friends of his
gave the other half.
• The alarm center was founded in a
garage of a building in Levent In 1994.
After doing businesses for friends,
relatives, Pronet made entrance control
and security systems for Akmerkez in
1996. This was a turning point for the
company...
• Another milestone was a decision made in
2002: Security system would be
established and would be free from now
on and only a certain subscription fee of 1
$ a day would be required. The slogan of
“1 $ a day” summarizes this new approach
the best...with this new approach started
with the objective of having 100
subscribers per month, the company had
one thousand subscribers in the end of
2002, ten thousand subscribers at the end
of 2007. Today, Pronet family has over 55
thousand subscribers.
• Saying, over the last three years the
company has grown fivefold, Alpine Saul
adds: “we want to grow in the same
speed three more years." He says that
their turnover objective is 85 million T.L.
for the year 2010, and adds that their
vision is to be one of the three Europe's
largest security companies in the coming 5
years.