Coca-Cola's Kent Named Winner of "Responsible CEO of the Year" Award
Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine named Muhtar Kent the "Responsible CEO of the Year" in the Large Market category ($2 billion-plus revenues public company). This award recognizes how individual CEOs have aligned their company's interests with that of thousands of stakeholders to do well by doing good. Nominations were made by the editorial team at CR Magazine, which looked at the following three criteria:
- Published in Professionals
- Written by Admin TOA
He approaches a woman seated in his salon chair with his arms outstretched as if about to conduct a symphony. “First, we are going to grow the hair,” says Nuri Yurt, the owner of Toka Salon. He waves his hands over her dampened salt-and-pepper locks. His fingers flick around the perimeter of her head, tousling here and fluffing there until he’s ready to deliver his verdict. “But we are not there yet.”
The Turkish petrochemicals market is one of the fastest-growing in the world, with a twofold GDP multiplier over the last decade. Petkim Petrokimya Holding A.Ş., the leading petrochemical company in Turkey, has been exporting different petrochemical products to the US market for 20 years. Its main export product is C4, used in butadiene extraction for rubber production. Butadiene is the basic raw material of the automotive and tire industry. Petkim’s market share for C4 is around 30-40% of the total C4 imports of the USA. Hayati Öztürk, Petkim’s General Manager, talked to TURKOFAMERICA. 
