Yıldız Holding maintained its strong performance in 2025 by preserving financial discipline while growing in its core businesses and continuing to create value for Türkiye. Increasing its consolidated sales by 34 percent year-on-year to TRY 657.8 billion, Yıldız Holding made investments of TRY 12.08 billion in 2025. Its total investments over the last three years reached TRY 27.5 billion. Yıldız Holding's exports amounted to TRY 30.6 billion in 2025. The total taxes paid and accrued for 2025 through its companies in Türkiye are expected to reach TRY 15.48 billion.

Yıldız Holding maintained its strong performance in 2025 by preserving financial discipline while growing in its core businesses and continuing to create value for Türkiye. Increasing its consolidated sales by 34 percent year-on-year to TRY 657.8 billion, Yıldız Holding made investments of TRY 12.08 billion in 2025. Its total investments over the last three years reached TRY 27.5 billion. Yıldız Holding's exports amounted to TRY 30.6 billion in 2025. The total taxes paid and accrued for 2025 through its companies in Türkiye are expected to reach TRY 15.48 billion.

Mehmet Tütüncü, Chair of the Board and CEO of Yıldız Holding, said: "2025 was a year marked by heightened uncertainties, volatility that has become part of the new normal and an even greater emphasis on resilience in the business world. During this period, while managing risks with a cautiously optimistic approach, we continued to focus on opportunities. As we sustained growth in our core businesses, we further strengthened our financial resilience through robust cash flow, a disciplined balance sheet and prudent debt management. Guided by our 'Make Happy, Be Happy' philosophy, we continue to create lasting and inclusive value for all our stakeholders, and to support our country's sustainable development journey as 'the Star of Türkiye' through our production, employment, exports and investments."

Yıldız Holding announced its financial results for 2025, marking another milestone in a journey that began in 1944 with the Pötibör biscuit and has grown stronger over the years. Today, the Holding operates across Türkiye through its food and retail companies, with nearly 80,000 employees, more than 300 brands, and products reaching 4 billion people across five continents.

"As the Star of Türkiye, we shine on a global scale through our companies and brands," said Mehmet Tütüncü, continuing: "As Yıldız Holding, we are proud to contribute to the national economy by managing a broad production and distribution ecosystem with nearly 80,000 colleagues. We continue our investments with the vision of making Türkiye an R&D and production hub. Today, we maintain our production across a wide ecosystem, from biscuits and chocolate to frozen food and packaging, in a total of 45 factories, 25 of which are located in Türkiye. Operating in two vital sectors, food and retail, we are resolutely implementing our investment plans for efficiency-driven operational excellence at our production facilities. We continue to generate resources and pursue organic growth in our focused core businesses. In doing so, we prioritize capital efficiency and maintain our financial resilience through strong cash flow and disciplined balance sheet management. Our debt level remains healthy. Thanks to our principal loan repayments and cash generation capacity, our Net Debt / EBITDA multiple has fallen below 2x, in line with our targets."

Our Direction Is Clear: Efficiency, Digitalization, and People

Emphasizing that Yıldız Holding's strategy for the coming period has been shaped around three main pillars in line with its objective of focused and sustainable growth, Mehmet Tütüncü continued: "Deepening our presence in food and retail, strengthening our business through efficiency, and gaining competitive advantage through innovation constitute our three main pillars. As part of our focus strategy, we continue to pursue organic growth in food and retail, where we hold a strong position. We will continue to deepen our presence in our core businesses and to invest in scale, efficiency and our strong brands. Our direction is clear: efficiency, digitalization, and people."

Highlighting that sustainability is positioned as an integral part of the entire business strategy, Mehmet Tütüncü said: "The Waste-Free Company model, which we have embraced since the establishment of Yıldız Holding, provides an important framework for us in terms of resource efficiency and the prevention of waste. We see sustainability as an integral part of our entire business strategy, and we continue to transform the future and create value today for the world of tomorrow not only within our companies, but across our entire value chain."

We Continuously Strengthen Our Digital Capabilities

"Digitalization and artificial intelligence investments are a strategic lever for both today and the future," said Mehmet Tütüncü, adding: "We prioritize digitalization in production, as we do at every level of our businesses. We continuously strengthen our digital capabilities. We are among the institutions that first incorporated robotic process automation and IoT projects into their processes. We do not view artificial intelligence solely as a technology investment. We recognize that we are in a new era that is transforming the way we work, our decision-making processes, and our approach to value creation. With this awareness, we consider artificial intelligence a strategic capability that enhances the quality of decision-making, simplifies processes and strengthens efficiency. Accordingly, we established the AI SteerCo, which includes executives from the Holding and our companies. We focus on projects that strengthen data-driven decision-making processes, increase operational efficiency and improve the employee experience. Our priority is to deliver tangible results in areas that create real value for our business."

"Guided by our 'Make Happy, Be Happy' philosophy, we are strengthening an inclusive and fair working culture," said Mehmet Tütüncü, emphasizing that competent and future-ready human capital is the most important element of sustainable success. Underlining that people are at the center of Yıldız Holding's transformation strategy, Mehmet Tütüncü continued: "To maintain our competitive advantage, we must prepare our colleagues and our businesses for the future. At Yıldız Holding, we aim to build a strong talent base that will carry our sustainable success into the future, while empowering colleagues at every level to play an active role in our transformation through our participatory leadership approach. Without a flexible culture that is open to learning, and even relearning, transformation itself cannot be sustained. In this context, we continue to invest in capability development."

Our Aim Is to Manage Today Strongly While Preparing for and Shaping Tomorrow

Mehmet Tütüncü, Chair of the Board and CEO of Yıldız Holding, concluded by stating that in a business world marked by growing uncertainties, a strong financial structure, a clear strategic focus and a reliable management approach have become more important than ever: "Today, we live in a world that is not only uncertain, but also fragile, non-linear and shaped by multiple variables. In such periods, it is essential not to lose one's sense of direction. At Yıldız Holding, we move forward with a strong financial structure, clear priorities and a disciplined management approach. With our people-centric growth approach, strengthened by artificial intelligence and digital transformation and grounded in efficiency, we aim not only to manage today, but also to prepare today for the competitive conditions of tomorrow."