Çalık Holding

Overview

• Industryclothing industry, news media¹
• Headquartersİstanbul¹
• Websitewww.calik.com
• Legal formAnonim şirket¹
• LEI7890007TRLORYBSJFA51³
• StatusActive³
• LEI statusIssued and current³
• Registered addressİSTANBUL ŞİŞLİ ESENTEPE BÜYÜKDERE CADDESİ NO 163, 34394 İstanbul, Turkey³
• Registered withTurkish Trade Registry Gazette (The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey), 309281³

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Çalık Holding is a Turkish company that has been operating in the energy, construction, mining, textile, and finance sectors since the 1980s. Founder and chairman Ahmet Çalık began his business career in the textile industry, founding Orta Doğu Tekstil in 1981 and Çalık Denim in 1987. During the early-1990s independence of CIS countries, he made his first foreign investments and founded Gap Pazarlama (to increase his company's share of international textile trading) and Gap İnşaat (to build plants). These companies were brought together as Çalık Holding in 1997. The umbrella company founded Çalık Enerji in 1998 and Aktif Bank in 1999, to enter the energy and finance sectors.²

Corporate structure

Çalık Holding sits at the top of its group. 65 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Çalık Holding reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

• ALBtelecom
• Daily Sabah
• Sabah
• Takvim

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.¹

The story

Founded by Ahmet Çalık in 1997.¹

Leadership

Who has led Çalık Holding, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

• FounderAhmet Çalık¹

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

• Çalık Enerji

Also owns

• ALBtelecom
• Daily Sabah
• Sabah
• Takvim

Subsidiaries (GLEIF)

• Banka Kombëtare Tregtare⁵

From Wikidata.¹ Ownership links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); each one cites its LEI record.

Timeline

1. 1997Founded Founded¹

Links

• Websitewww.calik.com¹
• WikipediaÇalık Holding
• WikidataQ272361