Doğuş Otomotiv

Being Turkey’s leading automotive importer and one of the biggest automotive distributors, Doğuş Otomotiv represents 15 international brands in the segments consisting of:

• Passenger cars
• Light commercial vehicles
• Heavy commercial vehicles
• Industrial and marine engines
• Cooling systems

Doğuş Otomotiv supplies the Turkish automotives market with nearly 80 models of Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti, SEAT, Skoda, Scania, Krone, and Meiller. Besides the company is the representative of VW Marine and Scania Engines in the industrial and marine engine markets and Thermo King in the cooling systems industry in Turkey.

Providing sales, after-sales, and spare parts services for all the brands that the Company represents through a service network with a truly national reach, Doğuş Otomotiv is the only company in the world that brings every Volkswagen Group brands together under a single roof.

Having one of the widest web of authorized dealers and service stations in Turkey with its more than 500 service stations, Doğuş Otomotiv provides an unconditional customer satisfaction oriented service.

Structuring its growth strategy based upon the principle of having a productive and profitable presence in every link of the automotive value chain, Doğuş Otomotiv operates in supplementary services as retailing, automotive financing, spare parts and accessories, logistics and customer services, used car dealership, fleet management and leasing, vehicle inspections, and insurance besides operating in the fields of imports and distributorship.

Doğuş Otomotiv has taken its first steps in the field of production, which it regards as an essential activity in the automotive value chain. After the inauguration of “Meiller Doğus Damper Factory” in 2008 in collaboration with the world’s leading damper brand Meiller, it has carried the groundbreaking ceremony of Krone Doğuş Trailer Factory. Turkey’s first foreign-partnered trailer production plant, Krone Doğuş Trailer Factory is projected to be due of 2009’s end.

Carrying its collaboration with VW AG in to an international platform, Dogus Otomotiv is preparing to open an authorized Porsche dealer and service station in Lausanne, Switzerland in the second half of 2009. In line with this aim, a groundbreaking ceremony for this projected service centre named as “D-Auto Suisse SA” has been actualized.

Doğuş Otomotiv, with its solid standing among the highly respected brands in the country, has adopted a service philosophy that is focused on high quality service and customer satisfaction, has operationalized a perpetual period of inventive and dynamic service process.

Turkey's leading automotive distributor Doğuş Otomotiv is ranked 29th in the “Capital 500” list, and 2nd in “Fortune 500” list in 2008. Additionally in "Turkey's Top Rated Companies" survey, carried by Capital, it is ranked among the top three of the automotive sector. Dogus Otomotiv is also among the largest 25 companies in ISE 100.

Doğuş Otomotiv develops and undertakes pioneering and exemplary projects within the context of its philosophy of corporate social responsibility. All of its social responsibility projects that are united under the overall heading of “Traffic is Life” are expressly aiming at raising awareness, consciousness and feeling of responsibility of the nation but especially the young generation in Turkey.

Doğuş Otomotiv is member of the Doğuş Group, who operates in financial services, automotive, construction, media, tourism, real estate, and energy. Doğuş Otomotiv shares were offered to public in 2004 and are traded under ticker symbol “DOAS.IS” in İstanbul Stock Exchange (ISE)

Doğuş Otomotiv Parts and Logistics Services:

The Spare Parts and Logistics Department provides vehicle and spare parts services of different prestigious Volkswagen AG brands of the world such as Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Scania, Krone and Meiller, which are represented by Doğuş Otomotiv and provides spare parts import, storage and transfer to authorized dealers services for Volkswagen-Scania Industrial and Marine Motors and Thermo-King temperature control systems.

An outstanding synergy application

The Spare Parts and Logistics Department combines the technology of the future with the modern and best applications of the synergy and creates a unique service for the world brands, represented by Doğuş Otomotiv. Spare Parts and Logistics uses state-of-the-art computer technologies and stock management systems in order to carry out the operation flawless.

The efficient pricing and price positioning together with the common part utilization of nearly 60% create an important synergy in the corporation of Spare Parts and Logistics.