GENERAL INFORMATION
Capital Structure:
The capital of the company is TRY 1,400,000,000 (one billion four hundred million Turkish liras) allocated to 1,400,000,000 shares each worth TRY 1 (one Turkish Lira). All the shares are registered. The company’s shareholder structure is as follows:
| Shareholders | Capital | Percentage |
| Mehmet Sinan Tara | 935,801,098 | 67% |
| Agâh Mehmet Tara | 154,733,448 | 11% |
| Fatma Esra Tara | 154,732,727 | 11% |
| Şarık Ömer Tara | 154,732,727 | 11% |
| TOTAL | 1,400,000,000 | 100% |
Executive Board:
The company’s operations and management shall be handled by an Executive Board consisting of at least 3 and at most 7 members elected in line with the provisions of the Turkish Commercial Code. The term in office of the Executive Board is 1-3 years. The persons below have been elected the first members of the Executive Board for a period of three years:
| Name | Position |
| Mehmet Sinan Tara | Chairman of the Board |
| Agâh Mehmet Tara | Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors |
| Fatma Nazlı Tara | Member of the Board |
| Fatma Esra Tara | Member of the Board |
| Şarık Ömer Tara | Member of the Board |
Purpose and Areas of Activity:
The main purpose of the company is to participate in the capital and management of established companies or companies yet to be established and so to resolve their investment, financing, organisation and management issues within a consolidated unit and on the basis of modern management principles, to increase and ensure the continuity of the companies which it founds or in which it participates in their own fields of activity, to spread risk and to increase the security of the investments against economic fluctuations, thus ensuring the healthy development and continuity of these companies in line with the requirements of the national economy, and to engage in commercial, industrial and financial initiatives in accordance with this purpose; and in addition to economic investments, to establish foundations or participate in foundations already established so as to be of benefit on social issues and help achieve social justice by improving human resources and the accumulation of knowledge.
The main areas in which the company will operate to realise the aforementioned purposes include but are not limited to:
- Participating in existing or newly-established companies, and establishing short or long-term partnerships or subsidiaries or entering into agreements based on shared financial obligations with them;
- Acquiring and managing all kinds of capital market instruments provided that this shall not take the form of intermediation or securities portfolio management;
- Supporting the companies in which it participates, as their central management body, in areas like finance, consultancy and feasibility studies;
- Establishing, as its operations require, lien or pledge in its own corporate capacity on its real estate and moveable property in favour of the subsidiaries it includes in its financial tables in the context of full consolidation, and in favour of other third parties for the purpose of conducting its ordinary commercial activities, and receiving lien or pledge and establishing other real rights in its own favour;
- Issuing any kind of capital market instrument in accordance with current legislation;
- Acquiring or renting real estate by means of purchases, construction, exchanges or donations in order to achieve its purpose and ensure suitable working conditions, assigning or transferring such real estate to others or fully or partially leasing it to others, establishing lien on its own real estate in favour of third persons to secure existing or future debts of the company or of companies in which it is a partner and shareholder, engaging in all forms of transactions regarding the rights of easement, usufruct and habitation, and other real and intangible rights in accordance with the provisions of the civil law, and providing commercial pledges. The company may put up all kinds of guarantees, warrants and security for companies the capital and management of which it participates in for loans they receive from banks or other financial institutions and for commitments and risks they enter into vis-a-vis such institutions or other third persons and may receive any kind of security in exchange for commitments which it makes on their behalf.
FINANCIAL RIGHTS
The General Assembly shall decide whether the members of the Executive Board will be compensated and if so the types and amounts of the payments to be made.