Opet’s Success Story – Webtekno

Fikret and Nurten Öztürk The couple’s story is a success story that starts with the ideals of teaching and is shaped by the combination of dreams and determination.

Nurten Öztürk, the daughter of a village institute graduate teacher, Biology Teacher during his training to become Physics teacher She meets her husband Fikret Öztürk. This is how the story full of perseverance and determination that we will tell now begins.

Fikret and Nurten Öztürk couple have been teaching for many years.

After they met and got married during their university years, Nurten Öztürk 13partner Fikret Öztürk 9 years They are teaching.

In their last period in the teaching profession, they moved to Mersin, where Fikret Öztürk entering the lubricant business going into business.

After a while, Nurten Öztürk quit teaching and focused all her focus on this business, which the duo would turn into a giant company in the following years. Opet’s story begins.

A male dominated industry one of the first female employees Nurten Öztürk states that she overcame these difficulties with the support of her husband.

They say that they aim to open stations in villages first!

Fikret Öztürk, who said in an interview that he first aimed to grow in villages rather than big cities, said that one of BP’s officials because he despises his strategy Talking about.

So much so that, considering the current position of Fikret Öztürk, who told the BP manager that it was not profitable to do business in villages while there were big cities, and that this was the best thing for his own businesses, he was really doing the right thing at that time. It is clear that he is following a strategy.

The company, which grew with its foundations laid in Mersin, Turkey’s largest fuel and lubricant distributor in 10 years manages to be.

Then, realizing that it was time to expand to big cities, the Öztürk couple started their business in 1992. They are moving to Istanbul.

Here to establish their own fuel distribution companies They decide. Then, remove the dots in the Ö of Öztürk and combine them with the first three letters of petrol. They create the name Opet.

Opet is the first domestic company in the fuel sector, which is dominated by foreign companies.

Rapidly growing Opet attracted the attention of Koç Holding and in 2002 50-50 partnership with Koç Group They are doing.

With this partnership, Opet will become one of Turkey’s leading fuel distribution companies. a strategic move it does.

Opet continues to improve itself both before and after this partnership. will differentiate it from its competitors By making many successful moves, it shows that it is determined to strengthen its place in the industry and make its name known.

With the most important of the initiatives that will differentiate themselves from their competitors profession has no gender highlighting the fact employing female employees happened.

In this process, in addition to successful commercial moves, the couple Nurten and Fikret Öztürk, who also carried out many social responsibility projects especially related to education, created a company that grew with the vision of two teachers. The educator inside them isn’t going anywhere. proves.

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