""Tradition is not keeping the ashes but keeping the fire on."
Jean Jaures
In Pursuit of a Dream...
It was only a dream at the beginning; a dream starting in a small workshop and improved and brought up to the present by Mustafa and Sami Boydak with their extensive works and efforts without being tired. Boydak Holding, established by our esteemed ancestors with their extensive personal efforts and great patience and belief before a period over 50 years has been operating as one of the most important companies of Turkey with its globally known brands, investments and excitement of the first day.
We already see that Boydak Holding, which leads towards future by standing firmly with its patience, courage, determination, openness to innovations and skill of existing by struggling with any and all difficulties whose roots derive their power from the deepest veins Anatolia, shall be ranked higher as a "global" company in the coming years.
We are happy and proud of existing in many regions of the world from Europe to Africa with all our companies and brands and effort of producing qualified work developed gradually despite the global recession in the year 2008. We celebrate and thank all the members of Boydak family, from the senior manager to the employee of the lowest level, not withholding their labour with the slogan of “the best human is the producing human” and not abstaining from making any self-sacrifice even for one moment for development of Boydak Holding companies.
We made important steps towards our target in 2008, as well. We hereby want to emphasize once more that we are proud of our companies Hes Kablo, Boytaş Mobilya, Merkez Çelik, İstikbal Mobilya, Boyçelik ve Boyteks Tekstil, included in the list of “500 Biggest Enterprises of Turkey" prepared by Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO) per year. The importance we attached to our Re-De investments continued in 2008, as well in line with our target of producing qualified work and developing this quality. We made Boydak Holding a sample school, laboratory for Turkish furniture industry by increasing our Re-De investment figures in the year 2007. We are aware that our investments in this field shall result in important developments for Turkey in the future and share happiness of being pioneer in this field. In this framework, we aim at sustaining our contributions increasingly to the Turkish economy and social life with the added value we have provided, employment we have created, gradually increasing export figures and branches, outlets and stores all around the world in the year 2009, as well. Boydak Holding, taking the necessary precautions for overcoming the difficult economic conditions suffered by the world since mid-2008 by strengthening, shall look for new opportunities and markets all around the world and sustain its efforts for popularizing its quality products of which it has never made concession in any cases and terms globally.
As an establishment, succeeding in existing in any and all conditions with its patience, courage and determination and always leading itself forward, we shall continue to work determinedly by considering not the point we reach but the one we are to reach. We shall lead our success graphic sustained till present to the most advanced points in the year 2009 and get ahead rapidly to our target of being the biggest establishment for the world with the cutting-edge technology in its field with the efforts of all our team knowing value of the labour. Yours faithfully,
Hacı BOYDAK
Boydak Holding
Chairman of the Executive Board