Europe’s largest integrated producer in the manufacturing of household linens and polyester thread, Zorlu Textiles Group has ratified the United Nations Global Compact with a vision to “work as of today for tomorrow”. The world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, Global Compact aims at creating a common development culture in line with 10 main principles for the business world that is continuously in competition. Occupying today the position of innovative business partner for global giants thanks to the quality, standards and practices it has developed in the scope of sustainability, Zorlu Textiles Group too has ratified the Global Compact on June 14, 2021 in order to disseminate these universal principles within all of its corporate organization and its stakeholders.

One of the largest investments made by Zorlu Energy to carry out new generation technologies, the Zorlu Energy Solutions (ZES) electric charging stations have reached 1,000 sockets in all 81 provinces of Turkey. Created by Zorlu Energy in 2018 to support electric vehicle transformation in the scope of a carbon-neutral future, ZES provides vehicle owners the opportunity to travel to all corners of Turkey without any interruptions with the charging stations it has built. ZES was the recipient of the “Our Energy, Our Future” Award bestowed during the 4th Turkey Energy and Natural Resources Summit that took place in June. Zorlu Energy CEO Sinan Ak affirmed that they founded ZES to create a sustainable eco-system and that henceforth, they will put renewable energy sources at the center of all their investments.

Determining its positioning in the future as “Innovative Textile for Nature and Men” with sustainable environment understanding and executing its R&D activities in this framework, Zorluteks and Europe’s largest integrated and innovative polyester thread manufacturer Korteks have featured in the first ranks of many categories of the “R&D 250” study carried out by Turkishtime magazine. Zorluteks successfully ranked 27th in the “Number of Projects Carried Out in the R&D Center” classification with 63 projects, 24th in the “Number of Female Personnel Working in the R&D Center” classification with 63 member of staff, 10th in the “Number of Design Registrations in the R&D Center” with 20 registrations and 18th in the “Number of Trademarks in the R&D Center” with 16 brands. As for Korteks, it ranked 103th in the classification based on the number of projects realized with 24 projects.

Acting in line with the goal of a sustainable future and putting nature and man at the center of all of its business processes, Zorluteks enhances its pioneering and leading position in the industry with an eco-friendly production understanding. Zorluteks has even further enriched its eco-friendly product range with the “Ecodesign” product category that reduces carbon footprint up to 50%. Emphasizing that they have turned sustainability into a working model in the scope of their Smart Life 2030 strategy, Zorluteks General Director Cemil Çiçek stated that they continue to contribute to the building of a sustainable future with innovative business models and that they are guided by the Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal Call.

Prioritizing the inspiration of young people who have dreams and the clearing of their paths in all platforms since the day it was established, Zorlu Holding continues its sponsorship support to high-schools robotic teams to encourage youth in the areas of robotics and coding by supporting Robert College Robotics Team ARC 6014, Bahçeşehir Koleji Robotik Takımı FRC 64294th Dimension and Gültepe Robotics Team GRT 6415. Zorlu Holding is willing to give life to an understanding based on technology and innovation and to bring into force a smarter life; hence the ARC 6014, FRC 64294 and GRT 6415 teams supported by Zorlu Holding will be representing Turkey during the FRC, the world’s most prestigious robotics competition for ages 14-18.

Assessing the social media performances of brands and agencies with objective data, Social Media Awards Turkey 2021 has announced its winners. Zorlu Center has been granted the Golden Award in the Shopping Malls category of the competition. Organized under the partnership of Marketing Türkiye and BoomSonar, the Social Media Awards 2021 assessments took into consideration many data related to the social media use of brands. During the current period where social media gained even more prominence due to the pandemic, Zorlu Center has reached millions of people with the acclaim of social media users thanks to its contents and shares.