The coincidental meeting of the two founders of the Group, İzzet Özilhan and Kamil Yazıcı, turned to a partnership in a short while. The first job of the young and enthusiastic partners was a hardware store in Tahtakale, İstanbul. They made a successful enlargement in a short time by selling Jawa motorcycles and Skoda pickup trucks.

Anadolu Group, the foundations of which were laid in the early 50's, has now over 20 thousand employees working in its 65 companies and 38 plants in 13 countries from the Adriatic Sea to the Pacific Ocean including Turkey. The Group mainly operates in the four sectors namely as beverage, automotive, finance, pencil and stationary . The Group has also entered into the IT, electronic, energy, food and health sector by its latest investment, the Anatolia Health Center (ASM).

Associated with “The Star that Connects Anatolia to the World and the World to Anatolia” in terms of adopting such a vision under the management of Tuncay Özilhan , the CEO of the Group for 23 years and since May 2007 the Chairman of the Group, that will deem its existence permanent throughout the 21 st century, Anadolu Group has accomplished all its initiatives and structuring within the latest years in line with this vision.

Anadolu Group, which produces and markets at least one or a couple of famous brands that we use in our daily life in Turkey, has been successfully continuing its strategy on the path of making enlargement to abroad, making collaborations and forming joint partnerships with multi-national companies as a part of the current globalization process.

Anadolu Group which has created the Turkish brand, Efes Pilsen , as one of the most consumed top ten beer brands in the Europe, has also some other accomplishments in the Turkish market:

	It has done a business partnership with Isuzu on commercial vehicle & pick-up (D-Max) manufacturing,
	It has created partnership with Coca-Cola,
	It has signed the licensed production agreements of the Miller , Beck's , and Foster's beer brands,
	It has done a license and partnership agreement with Faber-Castell for pencil and stationary products besides adding the Atlas brand to its group in the last years,
	Anadolu Group is presently continuing its partnerships with Kia on the subject of automobiles and commercial vehicles, with Lada on automobiles, with Honda on the sale of power products, with Lombardini on industrial engine manufacturing and sales.
	It has also a partnership with Samsung on the subjects of import, sales and marketing of electronic equipments, white and brown goods and mobile phones.
	It has become the licensor of McDonald's.
	It has signed an agreement for selling the Cooper Tiers in Turkey.
	It has began sales LS Tractors from LG Group of South Korea.
	The group has began sales Geely cars from China.

Apart from Efes Pilsen , which is consumed in over 50 countries throughout the region from the Adriatic Sea to the Pacific Ocean , the group possesses a wide range of products including the domestic leading brands. Anadolu Group international beer operations are presently executed by 10 beer factories and 4 malt production plants in the countries of Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Serbia . Spot news that the Group signed an agreement with Heineken to establish a joint venture for the Uzbek beer market and intend to collaborate in the Kazakh and Serbian beer markets and also bought Georgia's leader beer company Lomisi which has two breweries.

As a part of partnership agreement signed with Coca-Cola , the group also carries on the production, marketing and sales operations in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Jordan, Iraq and last Pakistan apart from Turkey, as the 10 th biggest Coca-Cola bottling company of the world operating with 13 Coca-Cola bottling plants.

As part of its social responsibility policy, Anadolu Group continuously makes contribution in the fields of education, health, art and sports.

Anadolu Foundation

Anadolu Education and Social Aid Foundation that was created by the Founders of the Anadolu Group, who said “To share our accumulated success with the Anatolian people is our heart duty”, has been granting unrequited scholarship for about 750 students each year besides 42 precious works it has granted for our country in education, health and social areas.

Anadolu Health Center (ASM)

Setting its objective as providing the modern health service for Turkish people from the beginning, the Anadolu Foundation accomplished its biggest ideal by the Anadolu Health Center (ASM) project that was founded as non-profit organization.

Setting out with the objective of being an attraction center in Turkey and the near geography in the fields of the illnesses on oncology, cardiology, women health and neurology, the Anadolu Health Center (ASM) has become the reality by the strategic alliance created with Johns Hopkins Medicine , which has a century-history and is the best hospital has been chosen in USA successively for the last 18 years. ASM has a target of being a research and education center apart from being a hospital where all health services are currently given under the same roof by changing the definition of service mentality in health sector.

Efes Pilsen Sports Club

The leading Turkish basketball club, Efes Pilsen Sports Club, which was established in 1976 and commemorated the 30 th year, achieved a first in the Turkish basketball history by winning the European Koraç Cup Championship in 1996. Efes Pilsen, which has the highest number of championship in Turkish Basketball League, lastly brought the 12 th one to its museum. As the 9 times winner of the Turkish Cup and also the most winner, 7 times, of the Presidency Cup, the team was 2 times ranked as the 3 rd in the European League. Continuing to educate and to train the basketball players of tomorrow by its free-of-charge basketball schools that it founded and improved, the leading of the firsts in Turkish basketball, Efes Pilsen, is the one and only Turkish team that played with NBA teams and gives player to NBA as well.