We are again in the top 100 of “ISO Top 500 Industrial Enterprises” list in our 42nd year!

Only 17 of the 100 companies, which were entitled to be on the list of Turkey’s biggest industrial enterprises made by Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO) since the day of its first issuance in 1968, were able to take part on the ISO 500 list after 42 years. One of these 17 companies, which was able to stay in the list after 42 years, was Gübre Fabrikaları T.A.Ş.

2009 results of ISO’s annual research of “Top 500 Industrial Enterprise” were announced on 27 July. According to the 2009 data in which GÜBRETAŞ broke its own record, it was 65th in the net sales category, and it became 60th among the private companies. Being placed on the 218th position regarding the sales from production category, it has dropped back as compared to the previous year. However, GÜBRETAŞ became 75th in the total assets category among 500 companies and was placed on 116th position with regard to the period of profitability.

Evaluating the situation, GÜBRETAŞ General Manager Mehmet Koca has made the following statement: “As our company has been one of the leading brands since 1952 in Turkish industry, it has always been enlisted in ISO. In a sector dependent upon foreign raw materials, it is a success to keep the top level in the area of ‘sales from production’, and this is worth paying attention. In 2010, we acted with the motto of “Non-Stop Production” in our factory, and we are aiming at improving our power in this category ”.

GÜBRETAŞ was the 48th biggest company of Turkey on the list of Fortune-500 Biggest Companies, which was announced in the beginning of July. In the Fortune-500 research, net sales were considered while profit-loss, total assets, equities, profitability, and export categories were subsequently graded. In the evaluation, revenues from the foreign operations were included to total sales incomes.

In ISO-500 research, only the sales data that the companies provide only for their domestic products are taken as a measure.