YEAR 1998… Chairman of the Board of Sanko Holding Abdulkadir KonukogluTextile engineer son of Sami Konukoglu, He saw a message on the back of the DÜNYA newspaper:
- TIR, there’s a queue in the tow truck market…
At that time he was working in the yarn factory. Sami Konukoglu, He thinks he dreamed of getting into truck manufacturing ever since he was a kid. He cut off the message and put it in his pocket:
– I will present the subject to my father in due course…
in these days Mustafa Kockaja, Deputy CEO of Sanko Holding Zeki KonukoğluHe went to visit. Abdulkadir Konukoglu in Koçkaya Joined the chat. koçkaya, When he said he was planning to go to Istanbul Abdulkadir Konukoglu, He called the pilot, asked about the weather, decided:
– Let’s get on our plane.
koçkaya, on road Abdulkadir Konukogluhe asked:
– Would you consider getting into the trucking business?
Abdulkadir Konukoglu, When he returned to Gaziantep, he told his brothers and son. Sami Konukogluopen for:
– On the way to Istanbul, Koçkaya talked about his truck business. Let’s have a look.
Sami Konukoglu immediately thrown:
– If you let me go, I’ll take this job.
Entry of the Sanko Group into Daewoo’s truck and construction machinery sales business, KoçkayaIt was triggered by . Sami Konukoglu, He went to Korea with the intention of promoting the business. koçkaya, looking forward to the production Sami KonukogluHe said what was on his mind:
– I can’t take off my jacket. I mean, I have no intention of getting involved in a deal that big.
Sami Konukoglu, Daewoo considered expanding business on the truck side and even production, Daewoo sold its truck factory. After taking over Daewoo’s truck factory, the group stayed away from India and China.
Sami Konukoglu, He looked at the volume of business they did with Daewoo’s distribution company:
– We are now at the $40-$50 million level.
When the truck fell off the agenda, it turned to the forklift side. prime minister Recep Tayyip ErdoganThe visit to South Korea at the time ensured the signing of the agreement:
- Sanko will produce Daewoo forklifts.
When Daewoo also sold the forklift division, that plan was shelved while the deal was signed. If there is no truck, forklift shop Sami Konukoglu, In 2003, he pioneered the acquisition of backhoe loader manufacturer Mastaş.
During the same period, the privatization of TZDK’s tractor business came to the fore. Sami Konukoglu, He hesitated to raise the subject with his father:
– Now, if I bring up the tractor business, I’ll eat a paintbrush from my father.
When selling Airfel to Daikin in 2011 Sami Konukoglu, prescribed to the family:
– We have to get into another business with a slightly higher added value.
Sami Konukoglu, While selling Auer, which he had bought with that intention, Başak soon entered the process of buying Tractor. without making the final decision Abdulkadir Konukoglu and his uncle Zeki KonukoğluHe brought it to the factory in Sakarya. Zeki Konukoğlu, Seeing the condition of the factory, he warned his nephew:
– son are you crazy Why buy this factory?
Sami Konukoglu, He told his father and uncle about the history of Başak Tractor Factory:
– My heart can’t let this place die.
Sami Konukoglu, Bought Başak Tractor, whose history dates back to 1914, on May 4, 2012. At that time, the brand’s market share had fallen to 3 per thousand. The number of employees of the company was 99 people.
Corporate Relations Director of ASKO Holding Ersan Acikay organized, Hakan Guldag and Serif Oguz We went to Başak Tractor factory in Sakarya. Chairman of ASKO Holding, Chairman of the Agricultural Machinery Group Sami Konukoglu, Board Member of Basak Tractor Gokhan Bayramoglu and brand consultant trust debt we met with
Sami Konukoglu, He explained that their investment in Başak Tractor has reached 150 million euros:
– Our market share increased to 6-7 percent. We are not in favor of competing on price. Our voice and looks shouldn’t get in the way of our bodies.
He reported that they were producing 25 tractors a day:
– We have an annual production capacity of 30,000 units. Apart from 2-3 weeks the production in this factory has never stopped since we got it. We manufacture 90 percent of the engine here. We believe that we can enter the top 100 in the world for tractors.
Sami Konukoglu, With Başak Tractor and MST İş Makinaları, he realized his dream of automotive sector, which he built with trucks in his childhood.
It confidently continues on its way in tractors and construction machinery.
It was founded during the Ottoman period to manufacture cars from iron and wood.
ASKO Director of Corporate Relations of the Holding Ersan Acikay, reflected the presentation about the company on the screen, member of the Board of Directors of Başak Tractor Gokhan Bayramoglu began to explain:
– The first plant and company were founded here in 1914. “DA-TA” (Iron Wagon Wooden Wagon) was founded under the name.
Chairman of the Board of ASKO Holding Sami Konukoglu intervened:
– This is one of 4-5 Ottoman era companies. Here the first plow and the first water pump were made.
Gokhan Bayramoglu Continuation:
– In 1944 the company was entered in the TZDK register. In 1968 he started producing tractors under the Ford brand. In 1976 he started producing tractors under the Steyr brand. The first production under the Başak brand takes place in 1978.
Sami Konukoglu, highlighted the following point:
– When this place was first privatized, it had a 17 percent share of the tractor market.
Erbakan’s Başak 17 is the first domestic, national tractor
ASKO Chairman of the Holding Board of Directors Sami Konukoglu, He showed Virgo 17, one of the tractors on display in the factory garden:
– The late Prof. With the initiatives of Necmettin Erbakan, in 1974 the idea of producing tractors of purely domestic and national design dominated.
He explained that domestic production of the 12 hp Başak 12 type took place in 1978 at the Başak Tractor Factory:
– Later, the Başak 17 type was converted with shaft, hydraulics and PTO. Pancar Engine, the first domestically produced engine, was used in these tractors.
Then he added:
– Despite being a standard type, it was the first domestic and national example to be produced as a garden tractor in Turkey.
Even tanks and rifles could be produced here.
ASKO Chairman of the Holding Board of Directors Sami Konukoglu, Başak Tractor emphasized that the facilities are fully integrated:
– Screws, nuts, threads, everything can be manufactured. Everything is integrated… I mean, it’s integrated in such a way that tanks and guns could be produced here.
He explained the added value created by the facility as follows:
– The ore costs $100 a ton. Iron and steel goes up to $1,000 a ton. When it turns into a tractor, it reaches $10,000 a ton.
He is no longer in Sanko’s management, he runs ASKO
SAMI Konukoğlu, When the CEO of ASKO Holding handed him his card, we asked him, he explained:
– Name of our holding company “Abdulkadir Sani Konukoğlu”it comes from. We have established a structure with 11 companies, mainly Başak Tractor and MST İş Makinaları. I have left my management responsibilities at Sanko and its subsidiaries to my brothers Cengiz and Servet.
Then he added:
– My stake in Sanko continues.
He pointed out the reason why ASKO was founded:
– We built this structure to be able to make quick decisions in a more focused industrial production.
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