Tofaş is my home, my everything. Everything I have, I owe to Tofaş and I am very happy about that. I worked for 28 years, but when I look back, it feels like 28 days. My first job entailed analyzing the cost of parts brought from the supply industry; I was determining the prices of the auto parts. Un order to do that analysis, you must know the salaries, the general expenses, how the parts are manufactured, which operations they undergo at how long. Determining the cost would establish the sales price. We were doing all that without computers. Our work was very bust and intense; I worked at it with great pleasure and satisfaction.
TOFAŞ SPORTS CLUB TURNS 40
1974-2014… 40 years had passed since Tofaş Sports Club was founded. When the company was merely six years old, the club was founded by sports enthusiasts executives with very limited means, the club had moved forward through the support of employees and made it to its 40th anniversary. With unforgettable wrestlers, basketball, and sports figures under its umbrella, it had spent these forty years with championships, records, international achievements, and unforgettable matches, becoming an institution within the institution. The Club’s initiatives in recent years to spread and popularize basketball especially among young people had given rise to incredible results; thousands of young players had been able to display their talent through Tofaş’ collaboration with NGOs. In the last month of 2014, Tofaş athletes, managers, and coaches celebrated the Club’s 40th anniversary with a special evening organized at the Tofaş Social Facilities in Bursa. The special event was hosted by CEO Kamil Başaran and Tofaş Sports Club President Efe Aydan. It was also the opening of the 2014-2015 season and they changed the opening into a meaningful celebration by launching a new project. The project was called “A ball for each score, a hoop or each win” and was another civil society initiative. In collaboration with Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, the Club was going to donate a basketball hoop for every win in Bursa and a ball for ever point scored in the 2014-2015 season to primary schools in need in Bursa. The project was indeed the Club’s thank you to Bursa. In his speech, Efe Aydan noted that as Tofaş they give as much weight to social responsibility project as they do to their competition in the professional arena and that they regard encouraging the youth to play sports, keeping them away from bad habits, and developing a sports ethics in them as an investment for the future. Therefore, it was quite meaningful to celebrate the 40th anniversary as a sports club that had embraced the notion that true investment is investment made in people.
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