Vestel

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Vestel Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.Ş.
Company type Anonim Şirket
BİST: VESTL
Industry Consumer Electronics, Home Appliances, Information Technology
Founded1984
Headquarters Manisa, Turkey
Area served
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia
Key people
Ahmet Nazif Zorlu (Chairman)
Ergun Guler (CEO)
Products Televisions, major appliances, digital signage displays, smartphones
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$3.90 billion (2023) [1]
Increase2.svg US$0.21 billion (2023)
Increase2.svg US$0.08 billion (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svg US$4.36 billion (2023)
Total equity Increase2.svg US$1.42 billion (2023)
Number of employees
20,438
Parent Zorlu Holding
Website

Vestel is a Turkish home and professional appliances manufacturing company consisting of 18 companies specialised in electronics [2] , major appliances and information technology. Vestel's headquarters and production plant are located in Manisa, while since 1994 the company's parent conglomerate is the Istanbul based Zorlu Holding. [3]

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Vestel, together with its subsidiary brands has a significant share in the European market of consumer electronics and home appliances, in particular TV sets. [4] As of 2006, Vestel was the largest TV producer in Europe with more than 8 million units sold, accounting for a quarter of the European market. [4] Vestel also has a subsidiary brand Vestfrost, used for white goods, and Luxor, used for televisions, sold in the Nordic countries. In 2014, Vestel entered the smartphone market. [5]

Most TVs produced by Vestel are sold under licensed brand names such as Toshiba, [6] Hitachi, Polaroid, JVC, Bush, Alba, Finlux and many own brand labels.

History

Vestel, IFA 2018, Berlin Vestel, IFA 2018, Berlin (P1070199).jpg
Vestel, IFA 2018, Berlin

Vestel was founded in 1984 and acquired by Zorlu Group in 1994. [7]

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