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IN
2014,
Borusan Lojistik
embarked upon the
goal of acquiring greater proximity and speed
in customer services, with lean and efficient
processes; meanwhile, it started focusing on
innovative projects and offering customers more
flexible solutions. Technology investments at our
port in Gemlik, which can accommodate container ships of up
to 13,000 TEUs and has a 400,000 TEU-container and 250,000
vehicle-freight handling capacity, have enabled us to create
value for our customers by increasing promptness, efficiency
and operational capacity in services. In the international shipping
under the Balnak brand, we have over 100 agents in Europe,
which provides us with a significant global transaction volume.
We have acquired greater international penetration through the
addition of CIS and Middle East lines.
In 2012, we established an online platform bringing SMEs and
shippers together under the Borusan Lojistik guarantee. This
platform, the ETA (Electronic Shipping Network), provided an
innovative approach to the land shipping sector by offering
reliable and fast service at optimal cost. In 2014, membership in
the online platform grew with the addition of 1,000 freight owners
and 2,000 trucking industry service providers.
Manheim (US), one of the world’s leading specialists in public
auctions, with its partner
Borusan Manheim
, increased
its dealer membership by 30% to 3,500 members. Having
expanded its total customer base by 29% and its business
volume by 14%, Manheim founded Otomax.com to accelerate
sales by broadening its second-hand car portfolio.
Supsan
, Turkey’s largest manufacturer of valves and valve
supplier to major automobile brands, had sales volume of
4.9 million and revenues of US$23 million in 2014. Our company
has also begun exporting to Russia and added Daimler CNG
engines and Volvo trucks to our customer portfolio.
orking towards its vision of achieving a
2,000MW portfolio by 2020,
Borusan EnBW
Enerji
continued its investments through
2014. The foundations of the Balabanlı Wind
Power Plant (Tekirdağ, 50MW) project, which
was put on the investment schedule in 2012,
and was started construction in 2013, reached full capacity two
months earlier than planned. Investments of wind power plant
package projects (which include the Fuatres, Harmanlık, Mut
and Koru Wind Energy Power Plant projects, and the capacity
expansion of the Bandırma Wind Energy Power Plant), which
were decided upon in 2013 as being the Europe’s largest
terrestrial wind power investment, have begun in the 207 MW. As
a result of TÜV NORD Teknik Kontrol ve Belgelendirme Company
inspections, Borusan EnBW Enerji gained “Voluntary Green
Energy Power” certification in July and became the first Turkish
energy company certified as supplying 100% green energy.
D
eveloping new products, services and business
models is a major focus of
Borusan Group
. In the
scope of these devoted activities, we evaluated
35 business opportunities in 2014. Most of these
opportunities, for which we budgeted US$ 5 million,
have been transformed into operational business
models and commercialized. As a result of our focused efforts,
we have brought seven projects to the incubation stage and, as
of the end of the year, we had over 50 new product, service and
business model projects underway in seven companies.
R&D is crucial to accelerating the development of new products,
services and business models. Therefore, we are establishing
a joint and competent R&D Center under the Holding company
to contribute to the Group’s competitive advantage as we move
forward. We have completed the joint R&D Center’s roadmap
and infrastructure, it will become operational in 2015. We have
also taken steps to increase cooperation with universities; to be
closer to university resources, data banks and academicians, we
have joined ITU’s Arı Teknokent.
Our profit did not reach a satisfactory level as we planned
for 2014. While our consolidated revenues rose by 9%, our
operational profit mirrored that of 2013. This was because of the
negative developments in our business sectors, such as the fall
in steel prices, the shrinkage in Turkish and foreign construction
equipment markets, and the increasingly restrained profitability
levels in the logistics sector.
BORUSAN 2014
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
In 2014, while celebrating our 70th
anniversary, we established our
targets for 2019 under the 5-year
strategic plan.
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