(ECO) TURKISH BUSINESSWOMAN IN LIST OF FINANCIAL TIMES.ISTANBUL, Sep 27, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- A Turkish businesswoman took place in the top five of a list prepared by Financial Times. Turkish Sabanci Holding Executive Board Chairperson Guler Sabanci is on the fifth place in Top 50 Women In World Business list of Financial Times --one of the most influential economy publications. Financial Times wrote about Guler Sabanci as, "she is Turkey's queen of finance. Her family-owned company, the Sabanci Group, is a conglomerate with interests ranging from banking to food to tyre Tyre (tīr), ancient city of Phoenicia, S of Sidon. It is the present-day Sur in Lebanon, a small town on a peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean from the mainland of Syria S of Beirut. manufacture. The company was founded by her grandfather in the early 1940s, then passed on to her uncle. Guler became chief executive in 2004. In the course of its history, the business has transformed itself from a small cotton company to a billion-dollar conglomerate, with operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the and in north and south America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Consolidated revenue in 2008 was 15.3 billion USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . When faced with challenging situations, Sabanci often relies on "search conferences", a methodology used in business schools to generate ideas, find flaws in strategies and ways to fix them. "I don't have all the answers, but together we can have all the answers," she says. She used this approach when founding the Sabanci University in 1994, calling a search conference of academics and businessmen from around the world. For four days, the 52 delegates discussed the challenges of creating a modern university for the next generation. Sabanci has this advice for aspiring executives: "It is important what you are doing but it is much more important with whom you are doing it." And she challenges the perception of Turkey as a country that holds back women. "The issue of gender in business, it's not only in my country, it's all around the world. If we don't focus on gender but focus on the results, on the targets, on the projects, on the achievements, we will see it is less of an issue"." PepsiCo's Chairperson Indra Nooyi Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi (born October 28, 1955 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company. is on the top of the list. (GC) (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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