Fark Holding aspires for a better future together— and is the parent company of Farplas Automotive, Fark Labs, F+ Ventures, Farel Plastic, Faraero & Farform Automotive, Casa Dell'Arte Bodrum, Casa Dell'Arte Lisbon Club House, Zai Bodrum, and other businesses. Fark Holding develops, supports and invests in businesses harnessing technology and innovation to solve the world's complex challenges in mobility, sustainability, healthcare and emerging technologies. Fark Holding was named one of the 20 most innovative companies in Turkiye by Forbes in 2021.
People are our greatest asset; persistence is our attitude; purpose is our driving force; progress is our daily dose and passion is our energy source. At Fark Holding, we advocate for gender equality, diversity, inclusivity, transparency and collective intelligence.
Yunus Büyükkuşoğlu
Fark Holding A.Ş.
Founder and Honorary President
Much has happened since 1968: Fark Holding's legacy business Farplas started as a family business selling automotive spare parts, and six years later in 1974, expanded into manufacturing operations. Today, the company operates in 7 countries around the world. Yunus Büyükkuşoğlu, one of the two founders, looks back and acknowledges that the role of coincidence is next to nothing in the success story of Farplas.
“It has always been a constant battle between my dreams and realistic business goals. But, from the beginning, I was certain that I would be around for a long time. My business plan was solid, and we went above and beyond our wildest dreams! In 2018, we celebrated our 50th anniversary. I can't believe it has been 50 years. Yet, if you had asked me when I was a kid if I thought I would one day lead one of the largest and most respectable Tier 1 suppliers in Turkiye, I would have responded, "Yes!" I have always tried to live up to my dreams and ambitions, and still am working on.
Over time, I was able to gather together people who shared my ideas and goals with the same degree of enthusiasm. I was able to delegate responsibility and authority to those individuals, and they established a culture that has been passed onto the future generations. We shared power, happiness, and success, and we created a company based on the principles of collaboration and entrepreneurship. We accomplished remarkable success as a team, accomplishing a joint dream for many Turkish companies.
Fark Holding is one of the few businesses that has successfully merged corporate philosophy with a family company spirit. With its 50+ year experience, entrepreneurial spirit, global mindset, and customer-oriented "people come first" approach, it maintains its well-deserved leading position. Our goal is to stay highly motivated on our core businesses while incorporating new technology, creativity, and digitalization in order to sustain the vision we created together of "becoming an innovative and global firm holding a leadership position in Turkey's mobility ecosystem." The Farplas family has my complete confidence in this task.
My goal has always been to foster a culture that is grateful to its foundations and country, thereby actively providing added value for its employees and shareholders, with dignity and humanity as its core values. I am honored to see that this culture is still strong and thriving. My primary objective has always been and will always be to fulfill my social responsibility to my country through projects in business, charity, education, and especially art. I am confident that my company and my children will always adhere to my value-creation philosophy.
I have shared all of my success with my co-workers, and I advise everyone to do the same. One day, you'll be as proud of the story we've created together as I am.”
Yunus Büyükkuşoğlu
Fark Holding A.Ş.
Founder and Honorary President
From spare parts sales in 1968 to a world-class automotive design, manufacturing, and technology company today, discover our inspiring story.
Farplas expands its international manufacturing footprint with a new plant in Romania, FSS (Farplas Smart Solutions), a joint venture with a trusted Romanian automotive supplier Delta Invest.
Farplas further extends its global manufacturing presence in Asia by opening a plant in Thailand in partnership with Faraero Thailand, which becomes Farplas' seventh plant.
After years of meticulous R&D and business success in lighting products, Farplas forms a separate business unit as 'Farplas Lighting' to transform the legacy lighting business into a new-age electronic vehicle interior system.
Fark Labs spins off micro-mobility infrastructure-as-a-service solution provider DUCKT, a start-up born, incubated, and accelerated internally. Farplas and Fark Labs expand to Europe, opening the European Technical Center in Paris, France. Fark Labs is registered as an official organizing partner of BIGG, the entrepreneurship program of TÜBİTAK (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). Fark Labs opens its second hub in Ankara inside the technopark at Middle East Technical University, Turkey's top-ranking international research university.
Farplas establishes its first international production service for Renault Slovenia through a license partner in Crotia. Fark Holding embarks on a new journey and creates Fark Labs as its innovation and transformation hub to build a "Better Future Together," fusing new generation mobility, transformation, and group strategy activities under one roof. Fark Labs obtains official R&D center status from Turkey's Ministry of Industry and Technology, becoming the third R&D center within Fark Holding. Fark Holding continues expanding its R&D activities by establishing its fourth R&D facility, this time within Farform.
Casa Dell'Arte expands internationally and opens its second hotel, Casa Dell'Arte Club House, in Lisbon, Portugal.
After several years of resident engineering, Farplas decides to operate in the region permanently and opens its Asia Technical Center in South Korea. Fark Holding launches its second R&D center within Farel to further strengthen its leading position in the home appliances market.
After completing its corporate restructuring process, Farform Automotive moves to Gölcük and starts operating together with Faraero in their new factory, which is strategically positioned near the Ford plant. Fark Holding establishes a corporate venture capital and private equity arm, F+ Ventures, to search and make strategic investments in the mobility ecosystem. Farplas launches T4, a logistics facility in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone.
To expand its operations into new fields, Farel enters into a joint venture with Wirthwein AG, a German manufacturer of plastic-based components worldwide. Farplas exits the Farhym partnership and transfers all of its shares to Hymer-Leichtmetallbau GmbH.
As a part of its future mobility strategy, Farplas takes its first step into the CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electrified) technologies and establishes Comodif, a technology start-up enabling connected mobility through its advanced platform solutions. Eight years after its acquisition, Öncü Inc. launches a corporate restructuring and changes its name to Farform Automotive. Farplas' board of directors establishes Fark Holding, bringing all of the Büyükkuşoğlu family's brands and companies under one roof to create a multinational, multi-industry conglomerate. Fark Holding acquires Hecha, a Turkish cast iron cookware brand.
Twenty-two years after opening its first establishment, Farplas consolidates all of its automotive operations in Gebze, celebrates the opening of T3, its third factory in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone, and retires its "veteran" Avcılar plant. Farplas’ President, Ahu Büyükkuşoğlu Serter, establishes the Arya Women Investment Platform (WIP). Arya WIP is a collaborative intelligence platform that empowers female leadership and supports female entrepreneurs with investment, training, events, mentoring, and consultancy programs.
The Farplas R&D center receives the "Best R&D Center Performance Award" in the automotive supplier industry from Turkey's Ministry of Industry and Technology. Farplas launches "The Art Department" initiative to nurture new contemporary art in Turkey by supporting emerging artists and promoting local and international cultural exchange.
Farplas enters into a joint venture with Aeroklas Thailand and establishes Faraero in Kocaeli, Turkey, to develop and manufacture Turkey's first local loadliners and bedliners based on HDPE Thermoforming technology for the automotive industry.
To focus on its core business, Farplas dissolves the partnership in Mahle Farplas and transfers all shares to MAHLE GmbH.
With updates in Turkey's R&D law, Farplas makes the strategic decision to expand its R&D initiatives and establishes its first R&D center, absorbing Fardizayn under it. Farplas' first R&D center obtains authorization from Turkey's Ministry of Industry and Technology and becomes a government-certified R&D center.
Farplas expands its automotive manufacturing footprint with T2 plant, its second facility in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone.
In a strategic move to grow its commercial vehicle interiors business, Farplas acquires Öncü Inc., a leading supplier for Polyurethane, extrusion, and thermoforming systems for the commercial vehicle segment. The Büyükkuşoğlu family opens Turkey's first luxury art boutique hotel, Casa Dell'Arte, in the popular beach town in Bodrum, displaying their eclectic and expansive art collection.
As Farplas transforms into a full-service automotive supplier, it launches its own design company, Fardizayn, in Gebze Technopark. Farplas joins hands with German automotive supplier giant, MAHLE GmbH, to produce air filter systems under the brand, Mahle Farplas.
Farplas continues its growth in automotive manufacturing and establishes T1, its first facility in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone, the automotive manufacturing hub of Turkey.
Farplas partners with full-service German automotive supplier Hymer-Leichtmetallbau GmbH and establishes a joint venture, Farhym, in Ankara, Turkey. This JV diversifies Farplas' product range by adding "complete bus ceiling systems" to its portfolio and becomes one of its most successful products.
Farplas' home appliances business grows exponentially, and the company decides to spin it off under the brand, Farel. The home appliances business continues growing, and Farel builds a factory in the Çerkezköy Organized Industrial Zone, 90 kilometers from Istanbul.
Farplas expands outside automotive manufacturing and enters the home appliances market, establishing a plant in the Gebze Organized Industrial Zone (GOSB).
Farplas establishes its first production facility in Avcılar, Istanbul, Turkey.
Fifteen years after being established as a family business, Farplas takes its first step towards creating a professionally managed corporate structure.
Building on the success of its automotive spare parts sales, Farplas begins spare parts production, transitioning from sales to manufacturing.
Yunus Büyükkuşoğlu establishes Farplas Automotive Spare Parts Sales Company, as one of the pioneers in the automotive industry in Turkey.
Farplas Automotive is a full system solutions partner for the automotive industry, striving for excellence in the manufacturing and development of innovative polymer systems. One of Turkey’s top 250 industrial companies, Farplas has been the one of the automotive leaders for more than 50 years. Farplas is one of Turkishtime magazine’s “Top 10 companies with the most R&D investment in the automotive industry in Turkey in 2020.”
Farel Plastic is a leading manufacturer of plastic-based components, assemblies and systems for some of the world's largest home appliance and automotive OEMs including BSH, Whirlpool, Electrolux, Renault, Toyota and Hyundai. As a system partner with extensive technological infrastructure, Farel delivers cutting-edge plastics technology with the motto, "Your goods are our prestige.”.
Faraero Automotive specializes in high-density polyethylene, the first in the world to develop plastic loadliners for closed cabin commercial vehicles, as well as plastic engine under covers for pickup trucks and passenger vehicles and plastic bedliners for single pickup trucks in Europe. Farform Automotive has been manufacturing parts for passenger, commercial and electrical vehicles around the world for over 30 years and was acquired by Fark Holding in 2006. One of the world's major multinational automotive supply manufacturers, it offers services to OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in Turkey and around the world, primarily for ABS and new generation hybrid components parts through a system-supplier partnership.
Turkiye's first contemporary boutique art hotel, Casa Dell'Arte is located in one of the most enchanting spots of Bodrum, the old fisherman's village of Torba. Luxurious but never ostentatious, Casa Dell'Arte lives and breathes the aesthetic and cultural atmospheres of the past, present and future. The Buyukkusoglu family art collection is exhibited throughout the hotel including the 12 guest suites and private villa.
Located In the heart of Santa Clara Square near the popular street market Feira da Ladra, Casa Dell'Arte Lisbon Club House is an ode to art collectors, friendship, beautiful pieces and all the good things in life that bring people together as if they spoke the same language.
Fark Labs is a global innovation and transformation hub that aims to build a better future for all. We help entrepreneurs, startups, corporations, and investors transform into more connected, innovative, and future-ready versions of themselves so they have a positive impact on the world. We apply an investment portfolio approach to our innovation strategy, touching all stages of the startup lifecycle from incubator to investor in Turkey, which is strengthened by our strong global network of regional accelerators and VC partners in our key global geographies. Fark Labs was born in Istanbul as an R&D Center of Farplas Automotive and has now grown to Detroit, Shanghai, Paris and Seoul.
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Art is a distinctive part of Fark Holding’s corporate culture. Breathtaking artwork from the Büyükkuşoğlu family collection is exhibited throughout the corporate headquarters creating a dynamic, refreshing, and inspirational environment for the employees. We believe that incorporating art into the workplace reduces stress, boosts creativity and productivity, broadens horizons and promotes dialogue. The Büyükkuşoğlu family’s private art collection focuses on Turkish art starting from the mid-nineteenth century and continues with Modern Turkish Masters and contemporary artworks in diverse media. We also treat our business as if it were an art form. Building a great business, like creating art, requires patience, dedication and hard work.
We are always looking for action-oriented problem solvers with an entrepreneurial spirit! If you have the
resilience, courage, and agility to keep up with the dynamic automotive industry, join us!
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Our purpose has always been to empower communities and make people’s lives better as a corporation that aspires to have a positive social impact. We support educational and public health activities, as well as programs that promote women’s empowerment and arts and culture. Our Founder and Honorary President Yunus Büyükkuşoglu has been recognized by Capital Magazine as one of “Turkey’s Top 50 Philanthropists” every year between 2017 and 2020.
Fark Holding is the primary sponsor of the Arya Women Investment Platform (WIP). Founded by our President Ahu Büyükkuşoglu Serter, Arya WIP is a collaborative intelligence platform that encourages female leadership and supports female entrepreneurs through investment, training, events, mentoring and assessment programs. Arya WIP fosters women’s entrepreneurship through its network of entrepreneurs, investors and experts. It aims to boost women’s knowledge of smart money investing while helping more women to build and grow their businesses.