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Our Value Creation #Value #Culture #DNA #Performance #Capital #Value Creation #Growth #Technology #Innovation #Resilience Value creation at Sabancı emerges from foundations built over a century and expands through interconnected ecosystems. We build platforms that shape the infrastructure of tomorrow, strengthen Türkiye’s competitiveness and accelerate the transition toward sustainable and high-performance industries. Our disciplined approach, R&D strength, and multi-stakeholder model turn industrial capabilities into measurable societal and economic value.
Burak Orhun President, Material Technologies

“We are building a future-ready industrial platform that integrates advanced materials and next generation mobility solutions by scaling circular systems, high-performance products, and innovative technologies. We are strengthening capabilities that power the transition to cleaner, smarter, efficient, and more resilient global value chains.”

Hakan Binbaşgil President, Banking & Financial Services

Built on capital strength with disciplined allocation, customer trust, sustainable finance, and digital transformation, our banking and financial services ecosystem remains a cornerstone of Türkiye’s resilience. This strength allows Sabancı to enter its next century with clarity, stability, financial inclusion, and the ability to support sustainable economic development at scale.

Our Value Creation Model

FINANCIAL CAPITAL
INPUT
  • Holding-only Net Cash Position: TL 8.5 billion
  • PPE & Intangible Assets: TL 222 billion
  • Capital discipline and access to funding

VALUE ADD
OUR FINANCIAL CAPITAL
OUTPUT
  • Combined Revenue Growth: (0.2%)
  • Combined EBITDA Growth: +7.7%
  • Non-bank Combined CapEx/Sales: 12.3%
  • Capital deployed in line with strategy
OUTCOME
  • NAV (inc. cash): USD 9.8 bn
  • FX Share in Revenues: 19.7%
  • Net Debt/EBITDA: 1.6x
  • Dividends per Share: TL 3

(Distributed in 2025)
CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
MANUFACTURED CAPITAL
INPUT
  • Operations in 18 countries, 6 continents
  • Diversified asset base across sectors

VALUE ADD
TRANSFORMING OUR PORTFOLIO
OUTPUT
  • Infrastructure and operational assets continued to grow
  • Continued availability and reliability of physical platforms
OUTCOME
  • Resilient and scalable asset base
  • Long-term operational continuity across geographies
CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
HUMAN CAPITAL
INPUT
  • Employees: 63 thousand+
  • Diverse, multi-sector workforce across geographies

VALUE ADD
OUR HUMAN CAPITAL
OUTPUT
  • Leadership and talent programs delivered
  • Training hours: 1.7 million+
  • 33% ratio of women employees in STEM positions
  • 44% ratio of women managers in Holding
  • Unionized blue-collar employees: 85%
OUTCOME
  • Inclusion in TIME’s “World’s Best Companies 2025” list as the top-ranked Turkish company
  • Future-ready workforce
  • Strong leadership pipeline
  • Organizational agility
CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
INPUT
  • 8 R&D centers (6 Türkiye, 2 abroad)
  • Ideation, execution, and cross-functional platforms
  • Innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities

VALUE ADD
TRANSFORMING OUR CORE BUSINESS
OUTPUT
  • 292 new SDG-linked products and services
  • 15 ESG topics addressed in business development, R&D and innovation program
  • Innovation and digital capability initiatives delivered
OUTCOME
  • Sustained innovation capability
  • Competitive differentiation in growth platforms
  • Leadership in ESG indices
CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
NATURAL CAPITAL
INPUT
  • Energy consumption: 36 million MWh
  • Water consumption: 8.9 million m3
  • TL 6.9 billion environmental investments and expenditures

VALUE ADD
OUR NATURE AGENDA
OUTPUT
  • 15 GHG reduction initiatives
  • 14% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions compared to 2021
  • 8% reduction in water withdrawal
  • Operational resource use managed
OUTCOME
  • Reduced climate & nature risk exposure
  • Long-term resource efficiency
  • Resilience to regulation & transition risks
CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
SOCIAL AND RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL
INPUT
  • Long-term stakeholder relationships
  • Suppliers: 61 thousand+ local and 6 thousand+ international
  • NGO and community partnerships
  • Customers across diversified industries

VALUE ADD
OUR SOCIAL AGENDA
OUTPUT
  • 1.4 million+ people reached through inclusion programs • Social investment programs implemented
OUTCOME
  • Strengthened stakeholder trust
  • Long-term partnerships and license to operate
  • Contribution to inclusive growth
CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
FUTURE-DEFINING MEGATRENDS & RISKS
  • Low-carbon and next-generation energy & materials
  • AI-powered computing at scale
  • Physical–digital infrastructure convergence
  • Regulatory and ESG complexity
MATERIAL ISSUES
  • 18 material issues identified through double materiality
  • Impact on environment and society
  • Impact on Sabancı Holding
FINANCIAL
CAPITAL MANUFACTURED
CAPITAL HUMAN
CAPITAL INTELLECTUAL
CAPITAL NATURAL
CAPITAL SOCIAL AND RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL
SABANCI HOLDING VALUE ADD
PURPOSE, CULTURE, VALUES & DNA
Purpose-driven identity Values-based culture DNA: Resilience, Agility, Foresight, Discipline

 

STRATEGY & CAPITAL ALLOCATION
Future-proof portfolio at the convergence of green & digital Return, risk, sustainability criteria IRR > WACC capital discipline NAV growth orientation Portfolio scale, transform, invest/divest

 

GOVERNANCE & RESPONSIBILITY
Board and committee oversight Accountability and transparency Integrated risk & opportunity management Double materiality embedded

 

PLATFORMS, ADJACENCIES & EXECUTION
Strategic adjacencies: energy, materials, digital Innovation, venture & collaboration platforms Speed in decision-making Technology- and talent-enabled execution
OUTPUT OUTCOME CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
OUTPUT OUTCOME CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
OUTPUT OUTCOME CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
OUTPUT OUTCOME CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
OUTPUT OUTCOME CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
OUTPUT OUTCOME CONTRIBUTION TO UN SDGs
VALUE CREATION OVER TIME
SHORT TERM Outputs from activities
MEDIUM TERM Outcomes of strategy and execution
LONG TERM Sustained value creation across capitals and contribution to the SDGs

Note: Non-financial data is as of 2024. Independent assurance of 2025 sustainability data is ongoing. Verified figures are expected to be published in early Q3 2026 on Sabancı Holding’s Investor Relations website.
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Our Purpose, Culture And Values

Our Purpose
To unite Türkiye and the World for a sustainable life with leading enterprises

Sabancı Culture

  • Putting the needs and expectations of customers & all stakeholders at focus,
  • Valuing different perspectives and making decisions by considering comprehensive inclusion,
  • Being the pioneer of innovation,
  • Being courageous to make mistakes and seeing it as a learning & development opportunity,
  • Focusing on long-term and sustainable value creation.

 

Our Values

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Our DNA

DNA = Values → Capabilities → Differentiators

This is who we are strategically. It is the reason Sabancı wins across cycles, transitions, and geographies.

Sabancı’s DNA defines how the Group creates value over time. It explains not only what Sabancı does, but how it consistently performs in a world shaped by volatility, transformation, and accelerating change. This DNA is rooted in values, translated into capabilities, and expressed through clear differentiators that sustain long-term performance.

Our DNA of resilience, agility, foresight, and discipline empowers us to manage a diversified, sustainable, digital and scalable portfolio.

Combined with a century-long entrepreneurial spirit and an appetite for new ventures; this foundation enables us to renew and transform through market shifts and across geographies, consistently turning uncertainty into growth opportunities.

This foundation allows Sabancı to operate with confidence in complex environments. Resilience supports continuity across economic cycles. Agility enables timely adaptation as markets evolve. Foresight strengthens long-term decision-making, while discipline ensures that growth is selective, measured, and aligned with strategic priorities. Together, these qualities shape a portfolio that is both robust and future-ready.

Our DNA is not static. It is continuously reinforced through the way Sabancı thinks, decides, partners, and executes.

Our DNA in Action

We think and act in networks, building platforms that connect industries, geographies and partners.
Sabancı approaches value creation through a connected system rather than isolated businesses. By building platforms and ecosystems, the Group strengthens collaboration, accelerates learning, and enables capabilities to scale across the portfolio. This networked mindset supports innovation and reinforces resilience in an increasingly interconnected global economy.

We see opportunity in every risk, using data, foresight and scenario planning to allocate capital with discipline.
Risk and opportunity are evaluated together. Sabancı uses data-driven insights, long-term foresight, and scenario analysis to guide capital allocation decisions. This disciplined approach allows the Group to navigate uncertainty with clarity, prioritizing investments that strengthen sustainability, digital capability, and scalable growth while protecting long-term value.

We earn trust through reliability, transparency and long-term partnership, delivering consistently and creating shared wins.
Trust is a core differentiator. Sabancı builds enduring relationships with investors, employees, customers, business partners, and communities by acting with consistency and accountability. Transparency and reliability underpin long-term partnerships, enabling shared value creation across stakeholders and geographies.

We execute with discipline and pace, aligning people, technology and capital around clear value-creation targets.
Execution translates strategy into performance. Sabancı aligns organizational capabilities, technological infrastructure, and financial resources around clearly defined priorities. Discipline ensures focus and accountability, while pace enables timely delivery in fast-changing environments.

We adapt with agility and flexibility, scaling what works and transforming what needs to evolve.
Continuous renewal is embedded in how Sabancı operates. The Group scales proven models while transforming areas that require change, ensuring relevance and competitiveness over time. This adaptability supports sustainable growth while preserving the integrity of the portfolio.

We respect and contribute to every region where we operate, building collaboration rooted in shared purpose.
Sabancı’s approach is grounded in respect for local contexts and a commitment to shared progress. By contributing to economic and social development and fostering collaboration across regions, the Group strengthens its role as a trusted long-term partner wherever it operates.

This is how we translate strategy into performance and culture into lasting advantage.
This DNA explains Sabancı’s ability to create value with consistency and impact. It connects values to action, strategy to execution, and ambition to long-term advantage, ensuring that Sabancı continues to perform across cycles, transitions, and generations

For detailed information on Navigating a World in Transition, Our Engagement with Our Stakeholders and Double Materiality Analysis, please download Our Value Creation Section.

 

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