About the Member:

Ford Otosan (Ford Otomotive Industry Inc.) is a publicly traded company (18%) in which Ford Motor Company* (41%) and Koç Holding (41%) own equal shares. Ford Otosan, which has been among the top 3 exporting companies in Türkiye since 2004, has been the export champion of the automotive industry for the last 10 years and the export champion of Türkiye for the last 6 years. In 2020, Türkiye became the export champion with vehicle and components exports amounting to 4.9 billion dollars. Ford Otosan, which operates in 3 main centers in Gölcük and Yeniköy Factories in Kocaeli, Eskişehir Factory in Eskişehir, Sancaktepe R&D Center and Spare Parts Warehouse in Istanbul, employs more than 12.500 people. Ford Otosan is the most valuable automotive company in Borsa Istanbul.

Ford Otosan, which exports engineering with its more than 1500 R&D employees, has the largest R&D organization in the Turkish automotive industry. The global engineering center of Ford's heavy commercial vehicles, related diesel engines and engine systems is the support center for Ford's light commercial vehicle design and engineering. Ford Otosan has all the necessary know-how, ability and infrastructure to design, develop and test a complete vehicle from white paper to product, including its engine.

Founded in 1959, Ford Otosan is the largest commercial vehicle production center in Ford Europe, through its production capacity of 455 thousand commercial vehicles and 70,000 engines and 140,000 powertrains as of the end of 2020. Kocaeli and Eskişehir Factories are shown among Ford's "Best Vehicle Production Centers" in the evaluations between Ford Factories.

Ford Otosan, which has a long-standing business partnership relationship with its dealers, is represented all over Türkiye by strong names who have adopted this partnership and add value to it. It also provides maintenance, repair and facility services through expert authorized services all over Türkiye. Ford Otosan appoints distributorships and dealerships abroad, together with Ford Trucks business unit, and provides service and spare parts services through dealerships.

Featured with the sensitivity to social responsibility, Ford Otosan is increasing the international competitiveness and contributes to the economic development of our country. In line with its corporate citizenship approach, the Company carries out social responsibility activities in several areas such as education, health, culture-arts and sports in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.  For this purpose, it contributes to the improvement of the quality of education by building schools in the regions of its activity, establishing laboratories in vocational schools, providing equipment and scholarships. In 2019, Ford Otosan launched a Türkiye-wide project aiming to bring the dreams of underprivileged children together with science in line with the goals of Quality Education, Reducing Inequalities and Partnerships for the Goals, which are among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, the company also carries out awareness activities on gender equality within the scope of the Equality at Work declaration signed in 2013.