Doğan Holding facts for kids
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| Traded as | BİST: DOHOL |
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| Founded | September 22, 1980, in Istanbul |
| Founder | Aydın Doğan |
| Headquarters | Istanbul |
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Key people
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Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı (chairwoman) İmre Barmanbek (Deputy chairperson) Ragıp Nebil İlseven (Deputy chairperson & CEO) |
| Revenue |  US$ 1.8 billion (2016) |
| US$ 310.2 million (2016) |
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Number of employees
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8,649 |
Doğan Şirketler Grubu Holding A.Ş. is one of the largest companies in Turkey. It works in many different areas like energy, media, and trade. The company was started by Aydın Doğan. Today, his daughter, Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı, leads the company. Doğan Holding invests in many businesses. It also helps its smaller companies grow and succeed.
What Doğan Holding Does
Doğan Holding is involved in many different types of businesses. This means they have a hand in many parts of daily life. They help provide electricity, sell fuel, and even make car parts. They also work with real estate and financial services.
Energy and Fuel Businesses
Doğan Holding helps provide energy and fuel. They are involved in making electricity from wind power. They also have a share in some hydroelectric power plants. These plants use water to create electricity.
- Galata Wind Energy
- Aslancık HEPP (33%)
- Boyabat HEPP (33%)
They also sell petroleum products. This means they are involved in getting fuel to people.
- Aytemiz Petrol (50%)
Manufacturing and Trade
Doğan Holding makes many different products. They also trade goods. They produce steel wires and parts for cars. They also make materials for packaging.
- Çelik Halat (BIST: CELHA): makes steel wires
- Ditaş Doğan (BIST: DITAS): makes car parts
- Sesa Ambalaj: makes packaging materials
Cars and Transportation
Doğan Trend is a part of Doğan Holding. It sells and distributes many popular cars and motorcycles. They also offer services like car rentals. They sell new and used cars.
Brands Doğan Trend Represents
As of November 2022, Doğan Trend works with many well-known brands.
- Cars: Suzuki, MG Motors
- Motorcycles: Vespa, Piaggio, Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, KYMCO, Silence, Suzuki Motorcycles
- Marin: Suzuki Outboards (boat engines)
- Mobility: Wallbox Chargers (for electric vehicles), Bimas E-bikes (electric bikes)
This group has over 70 dealers and service points. These are located all across Turkey.
Money and Investments
Doğan Holding also works in finance. They have an investment bank. They also help with financial services like factoring.
- DYBank/D-Investment Bank
- Doruk Finansman
- Doruk Factoring
Internet and Fun
Doğan Holding is also active in the internet and entertainment world. They own radio stations. They also have a big online shopping website. They are involved in publishing books and music.
- Radio Dreamturk
- Dream FM
- Hepsiburada (a large online shopping site)
- hepsiemlak.com (a real estate website)
- Kanal D Romania (a TV channel)
- Doğan Publishing (publishes books)
- DMC / Doğan Music Company (a music company)
Real Estate Investments
Doğan Holding invests in real estate. This includes large buildings and marinas.
- Trump Towers Istanbul
- Milta Bodrum Marina
- DoubleTree by Hilton Bodrum Marina Vista
Doğan Media Group
The Doğan Media Group was a big media company in Turkey. It was part of Doğan Holding. This group brought together all of Doğan's media businesses. It was started in 1997.
What Doğan Media Group Owned
The Doğan Media Group owned many famous newspapers. These included Posta and Hürriyet. They also owned TV channels like Kanal D and CNN Türk. They had a news agency too. The group also published books and music.
From 1979 to 2011, Doğan Media Group also owned Milliyet and Vatan newspapers.
Changes to the Media Group
In August 2014, Doğan Holding decided to take over the Doğan Media Group. This meant the media group became a direct part of Doğan Holding. The change was completed on August 26, 2014. The Doğan Media Group was then closed as a separate company. The chairperson, Begüm Faralyalı, said this would make management simpler.
On March 22, 2018, Doğan Holding announced they would sell their media businesses. They sold them to the Demirören Group for $1.1 billion. The sale was completed on April 5, 2018.
Past Media Properties
Here are some of the newspapers, TV channels, and radio stations that were part of Doğan Media Group before the sale.
Newspapers
- 1979–2011: Milliyet
- 1994–2018: Hürriyet
- 1995–2018: Posta
- 1995–2018: Fanatik
- 1996–2016: Radikal
- 2002–2011: Vatan
Television Channels
- 1994–2018: Kanal D
- 1996–2018: Euro D
- 1999–2018: CNN Türk
- 2005–2011: Star TV
- 2006–2011: Euro Star
- 2007–2018: Kanal D Romania
- 2008–2018: Cartoon Network
- 2011–2018: NBA TV
- 2012–2018: TV2 (Turkey)
Radio Stations
- 2005–: Slow Türk
- 1994–2018: Radio D
- 2001–2018: CNN Türk Radio
- 2024-: Dream Türk Radio
- 2024-: Dream FM
Digital Platforms
- D-Smart
- D-Smart Avrupa
See also
In Spanish: Doğan Holding para niños
