Yıldız Holding and DeMet’s Candy Company, to form a new global company, “pladis”. In 2018, in the course of the Turkish currency and debt crisis, 2018, Yildiz Holding unexpectedly requested its creditors to restructure as much as $7 billion in loans. Yıldız Holding Yıldız Holding is a Turkish conglomerate that is best known for manufacturing food products. The company also produces other consumer goods and has its own retail, private equity and real estate operations. Yıldız Holding is among the largest food manufacturers in CEEMEA (Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), generating revenues of 34.3 billion TL in 2016
Pladis in all five categories of chocolate, biscuits, cake, candy and gum. The pladis name was inspired by the Pleiades constellation, a group of seven stars visible from anywhere on Earth. Godiva Chocolates was acquired by Yildiz Holding in 2008. In 2014, Yildiz acquired DeMet's Candy Company for $221 million, which includes the US wholesale brand Flipz and Turtles. That same year, Yildiz acquired United Biscuits, the parent company of McVitie's, making it the third largest cookie company in the world. pladis also owns Go Ahead, Koninklijke Verkade which includes brands such as Verkade and Sultana, and Biskrem. Pladis Pladis Ltd