YILDIRIM Investment Group Explores Possibilities of Investing Liberia - FrontPageAfrica
Source: Front Page Africa
MONROVIA - A team of potential investors is currently in Liberia, exploring possibilities for investment purposes in sectors including mining, port management, fertilizers and chemicals, energy and power, shipping, and logistics.
While in Liberia, the team met with President Joseph Boakai, President Pro-Tempore Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, the National Investment Commission (NIC), and the management of the National Port Authority (NPA). They are also expected to meet the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The delegation also visited the Buchanan port, headed by former Grand Bassa Senator Johnathan Kaipay, where they held discussions with the current management on possibilities to invest.
The delegation representing YILDIRIM Group is a globally dynamic organization committed to shaping the future. The YILDIRIM Group is a highly diversified, vertically integrated, global industrial conglomerate with headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Istanbul, Turkey.
Established in 1963 as a construction material trading business in Samsun, the company has broadened its focus through new subsidiaries and evolved to be one of the fastest-growing global industrial groups since its foundation.
YILDIRIM Group currently operates in 56 countries and across 5 continents, employing 25,000 employees worldwide in nine (9) industries, which include Metals and Mining, Port Management, Fertilizers and Chemicals, Energy and Power, Shipping and Logistics, Energy Commodities, Financial Services, Construction and Real Estate, and International Trade.
Members of the delegation were Yuksel YILDIRIM, President and CEO; Ozer OZ, Chief Operating Officer; Mustafa KURNAZ, Chief Construction and Infrastructure Officer; and Kadir OKCU, Chief Construction and Infrastructure Officer.
Other members of the delegation are Erhan CILOGLU, Chief Marketing Officer of YILPORT Holding; Orcun GOKALP, Corporate Finance Director; as well as Emin CAKMAK, Chairman of the Turkish-African Investment Consortium.
About YILDIRIM
The foundation of YILDIRIM Group dates back to 1963 when the late Yildirim established a modest construction materials trading company called Garip Yildirim and Sons in Samsun, Turkey.
YILDIRIM Group is a family-owned business, held 100% privately by the Yildirim family. Since 2018, brothers Ali Riza Yildirim and Robert Yuksel Yildirim have been managing the company's operations after the losses of founder Garip Yildirim and the brother of the second-generation Mehmet Yildirim in 2017.
The YILDIRIM's business structure ensures passionate motivation for sustainable growth as well as quick and sound decision-making capabilities.
YILDIRIM Group embarked on international trade for the first time in 1993, importing coal directly from Russia. Fifteen years later, the company completed its first international acquisition in Sweden in 2008.
