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A Blessing in Disguise

Bridgeport, CT - “A blessing in disguise,” is the best phrase to describe Hakki Akbulak’s business adventures in the U.S. Akbulak, a Turkish born businessman, left Turkey when he was 17 to attend a college in Germany, become a CPA, then started to work for KMPG, a global network of professional services firms providing audit, tax and advisory services.

June 14, 2009
Published in Businessman

The Brothers' Passion

Hakki and Erdogan Akbulak, brothers born in Ankara, established AKDO/SILKAR after Erdogan was diagnosed with cancer in 1990. He came to the United States for treatment, and it was at this critical time that Hakki realized how important it was to spend as much time with his brother as possible.

January 7, 2009
Published in Businessman

How Will Businessmen Survive During the Global Crisis?

On February 7, 2007, the Reuters News Agency sent its subscribers a seven sentence news item. The news item said that the subprime and risky loans of British-based HSBC Holdings had reached 10.5 billion dollars in 2006, and that this was more than 20 percent over what the analysts had been expecting.

January 5, 2009
Published in Businessman

Ravini Discovered Shadow

Ravini, which has been operating since 1996 in Turkey’s most important natural stone center of productions, Balıkesir has captured a new trend with the gray marble (Shadow) that it has presented to the American, European and Middle East market.