Success Story of Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan

She was born as the daughter of Sakıp Sabancı’s brother, Hacı Sabancı. Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan, After completing his education, he worked at Sabancı Holding for many years.

He gained serious experience in the textile industry for 20 years at Sabancı Holding and later decided to use his experiences and knowledge for his own dreams. to make your own way He had decided.

For this reason, he left Sabancı Holding in 1999 and founded Demsa in 2000!

In an interview, Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan uses the following statements; “Sabancı Holding is a big group. It has large investments. But my I had different dreams. I decided to realize my own investments in areas that would not be suitable for Sabancı Holding’s scope of business in terms of scale. We made sure that our work was not in the same line of business as Sabancı. As a shareholder of Sabancı Holding, we had to grow in different sectors.”

Thus, in 2000, he and his wife Demsa Founder Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan took the first step towards her dreams and made significant investments in many sectors with Demsa Group.

His first investments were in the retail sector. They became one of the first companies to bring foreign brands to Turkey.

Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan was very experienced in the field of textile. So much so that he served on the boards of directors of companies such as Teksa, Bossa and Yünsa. Therefore from textile business He understood.

Famous and big brands such as Guess, Laura Ashley, Salvatore Ferragamo, Harvey Nichols and Donna Karan They brought it to Turkey.

Afterwards brandroom They established their own brand, focusing on luxury retail, and began to offer various brands such as Boyner to consumers under this brand.

Following their retail investments, they also stepped into the media sector by purchasing Fashion TV.

They were operating in the retail industry in the fashion field and they would not want to be away from the fashion world. Fashion TV They purchased it and incorporated it into Mediasa, which also belongs to Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan.

Later, in order to deepen their presence in the media sector, they created an educational channel broadcasting 24/7 and Named World Travel ChannelThey also established a travel channel and showed their strength in this field by investing in different types of channels.

In 2012, it was about Mediasa, which made a partnership agreement with a South Korean company. last news in 2016 It looks like it’s been done.

Activities will be stoppedWe could not find any source about the company other than an empty LinkedIn page.

According to our research, although World Travel Channel has stopped its broadcasting activities, there is still a as a travel agent servicing.

Demsa has made and continues to make significant investments in the tourism and real estate sector.

Date Pera Palace and a favorite hotel of rich tourists St. Regis’s Demsa, which operates it, seems to have not lost its more assertive position in the tourism sector.

In addition, within the scope of real estate investments, it was built on a 25-decare land. Kandilli Mansions It is also among the projects carried out by Demsa Group.

Demsa Group is currently has more than 600 employees continues its activities as one of our valuable and large companies.

It also carries out important activities in the field of health and technology with ONKİM Stem Cell Technologies.

Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan received medical attention in 2006 also in the sector He invested and founded ONKİM.

Türkiye and the Middle East’s largest stem cell center He carries out valuable work within ONKİM, which he describes as:

In summary, Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan’s success story has helped many women with her entrepreneurial spirit and innovative approach. inspiration is happening.

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