Yıldız Holding 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 across all businesses. The company employs 56,000 people and has 83 factories (24 of which are outside Turkey). Yıldız Holding has over 300 brands available in more than 130 countries. Through Yıldız Holding’s core focus on biscuits, cakes and
Lotte Confectionery a major confectionery group o n a global scale. Lotte remained controlled by Shin Kyuk-ho, joined by his children and other family members. In less than 60 years, Shin had built Lotte from a small chewing gum producer into one of the world's top confectionery groups. On October 12, 2017, Lotte Confectionery announced that the company had been spun-off in order to formed Lotte Corporation as the holding company. Many of Lotte's products are sold internationally in areas with Japanese and/or Korean immigrants and in Asian supermarkets around the world. The confectionery line-up covers a wide range of snacks including