- CEO
- Mert Altinkilinc
- Full Time Employees
- 2,076
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: specialty/candy
- Address
- Istanbul Turkey
- IPO Date
- Jun 20, 1994
- Business
- Besler Gida ve Kimya Sanayi ve Ticaret AS is a Turkey-based food manufacturing company primarily engaged in the development, production, refining, and commercialization of edible vegetable fats, margarines, cooking oils, and specialized industrial food ingredients. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, the company operates as a core subsidiary of Kerevitas Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret AS within Yildiz Holding. Besler Gida organizes its business activities into two primary operational segments: Consumer Products and Industrial and Foodservice Solutions. The company's product portfolio comprises consumer packet and tub margarines marketed under household brand names including Bizim Yag, Teremyag, Luna, Ona, and Sabah; refined liquid edible oils, including sunflower seed oil, corn oil, and vegetable oil blends; specialized bakery fats, puff pastry margarines, and culinary fats for professional kitchens; high-performance frying oils and deep-frying fat blends; industrial specialty fats, confectionery fats, biscuit and wafer cream fats, and chocolate coating lipid systems marketed under the Ustam and Bizim Profesyonel brands; and customized lipid solutions developed for commercial food processors and private-label clients. Besler Gida serves retail consumers, retail supermarket chains, commercial foodservice providers, hotels, restaurants, bakeries, and multinational food manufacturers throughout Turkey, alongside export markets across the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. In recent operational and strategic developments, Besler Gida has expanded its portfolio of clean-label, non-hydrogenated, and plant-based specialty fats, while securing Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certifications across its product lines to meet stringent international sustainability standards. The company has also executed continuous manufacturing automation and capacity optimization projects at its primary Pendik production facility in Istanbul, while strengthening operational, research and development, and cross-border distribution synergies under the unified Kerevitas corporate structure to expand export sales in regional emerging markets.