Letter from the honorary chairman

İSMAİL KATMERCİ / Honorary Chairman

FUTURE BELONGS TO KATMERCİLER FAMILY

 

IN OUR JOURNEY TO UNIVERSAL QUALITY WE PROTECT OUR VALUES AND CONTINUE TO INVEST INTO THE FUTURE BY TAKING CARE OF THE SOCIETY’S AND OUR SHAREHOLDERS’ INTERESTS.

 

QUALITY is a social responsibility. Not only the product but also the value you generate must be quality. That is what institutional responsibility requires… We as Katmerciler since 27 years are always focusing on the value more than the product. We contribute values to many areas of social life with our on board equipments and are proud of this. While designing our vehicles we reflect upon how our citizens’ lives can get easier? We try to produce in most enviroment consciouss way by imagining the world we will leave future generations. We see our workmates not as employees but partners.

 

In the last one and a half year we took the company public and with our new partners we elevated all of our values. Now it’s a brand new era, in order to achieve our goals we are making concrete moves. In year 2011 we took a big step in line with our vision of regional leadership and struck up a huge partnership with French company Gimaex. We are becoming much more assertive in the region’s markets with our new company GimKat.

GimKat, which is established with the partnership of Gimaex in İzmir, is producing only fire trucks for now. We see this company as the engine of our ambition to become a regional power. As we mentioned before, our vision is to become one of the most powerful companies of the region till the year 2015.

 

Gimaex is one of the senior fire truck producers of the world. The company sells on board equipment all around the world, 60 percent ot its sales comes from exports, its average annual endorsement reaches to 110 million euro. So, our partner is one of the most powerful actors of the region and very experienced in the sector.

 

Through new partnerships with Gimaex International we will bring in new high technology to our country, also some new models will be produced. Meanwhile Katmerciler’s accumulation of knowledge and experience will approach to international standars. This development means a new beginnig for Katmerciler. We plan similar partnerships with companies, which are experts in their fields, in near future.
Our company exports to 42 countries and our goal is to reach much broader geographies. In this journey we undertake with our new investment, our compass is certainly our mentality of universal quality. We kow that the way of making our company sustainable goes through added values we create for our shareholders, our society and future generations. This is our strategy since 27 years and we will continue to actualize it in the future just as today.

 

Best regards…