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Our
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Dealing
with the commerce of tobacco, cotton, fig, grape in Izmir,
Italian origin Georgia Giraz came to Istanbul
in 1948 with his colleagues. In these days, Turkey was at the
early stage of its industrilization and there were a few Turkish
people speaking foreign language. Georgia Giraz and his friends
decided to establish a company to import
European Products and to represent European
companies in Turkey. |
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Their concentration was on Machine-Tools,
Textile Machinery, Agricultural Machines
including Tractors, Steel-Iron
Industry and Cutting Tools. Giraz and his
friends started to represent a wide range of world wide known
German, English, French and Italian manufacturers dealing
with above subjects. |
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After
The World War II, Germany gave more importance on export.
Giraz company took the responsibility of representing well-known
German machine-tools manufacturers. They also invite 8 Germans
to work with them in Istanbul office. At this period total
of 16 people were in charge of the import and the representation
of machine-tools, steel - iron and tractor from Germany and
textile machinery from England. In 1960 the military took
the power in Turkey and Georgia Giraz decided to move to Germany.
The 8 German also decided to return to their country. After
Giraz left the country, Celal Imre and his
4 friends took over the management of the activities.
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Celal Imre was a valuable Turkish man, had been two times the
general manager of MKEK. After his retirement from this position,
he joined Giraz company and manage the company's activity
in Ankara. The other 4 people were his colleagues working in
Istanbul office as technical, commercial and financial responsibles.
As Celal Imre took over the business, the company name is changed
to Celal Imre Ticaret Ltd. Sti. The new company
concentrated more on machine-tools, steel-iron and cutting
tools out of Germany. Those activities lasted till 1971, the
death of Celal Imre. |
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Then Ismet Unan joined the company as a shareholder
and took the responsibility of running the business. The other
3 shareholders were doing their own private business. After
the death of Celal Imre the name of the company changed to
Emre Makina ve Donatim Tic. Ltd. Sti. The
4 shareholders out of 5 sold their shares to Ismet Unan in
1990 and after that Ismet
Unan and his children continued the activities as a family
business. In 2002 as the life period of the company expired
legally, a new copmany under the name of Unan Teknik Makina Metal
Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Sti. is established and this
company continues the representing activities. |
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