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
Ceylon Biscuits Limited This is a joint venture between Ceylon Biscuits Limited and SPAR Group Ltd South Africa. They opened the first supermarket in Thalawathugoda, Colombo. The future plan is to open 50 outlets in the country by 2023. At present this is one of the leading biscuit, chocolate and confectionery manufacturers and marketers in Asia. Ritzbury originally started in 1991 as number four in Sri Lanka's chocolate market. By 2006 it had beaten Kandos (Ceylon Chocolates) to the number two spot, with a 21% market share (although still behind, market leader, Edna Group's 42% share). In 2010 it had become Sri Lanka's