FoodTurkey March/April 2018

on business projects. He worked at a
variety of jobs.
His last job was in the marketing
department of a spice production
and sales company. His success there
turned out to be, in a sense, one of the
most important factors in bringing him
and Balparmak brand, to where they
are today.
The management at the spice firm
advised Özen Altıparmak to found a
marketing and distribution company to
handle the Istanbul distribution of their
products.
The opportunity he had been waiting
for had arrived. He accepted. He
founded Altıparmak Pazarlama Unlimited
with his father, Sabri Altıparmak,
and his brother, Özgür Altıparmak.
Özgür Altıparmak, who was born in
Ankara in 1958, is now the Vice Chairman
at Altıparmak Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret
A.Ş. He manages analysis, product
blending, and the filling facility.
Özgür Altıparmak, who graduated
from Gazi University’s Press Academy
in 1983, entered business life while
he was still a university student. He
became a founding partner with his
brother Özen Altıparmak, with whom
he shared the same entrepreneurial
spirit and vision.
Before long, the company undertook
the marketing, selling and distribution
of a great many food products, which
was in line with the two brothers’ common
vision and goal, and became successful
at it.
One of these products was the specialty
of a close acquaintance of their
father: mankind’s natural, millennia-old
friend and food, honey.
As with every product, the selling and
marketing of honey also requires the
seller to know it very well. And to be
acquainted with honey, to intimately
know its qualities, its place in people’s
lives, its laborious production, its burdened
producers, presented the Altıparmak
brothers with a brand new
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