Estetik Yayıncılık A.Ş. (owned by BEME Media A.G.)
Estetik publishing, which has been publishing Sözcü newspaper since 2007 and sozcu.com.tr website since 2012, was sold to BEME Media AG, which was established in Switzerland in 2019. According to the Trade Registry Gazette, Burak Akbay, the owner and the-then chair of the Estetik Group, is the member of the board of Beme Media A.G.
According to the Trade Registry Gazette dated March 22, 2019, BEME Media Grup is the only owner of Estetik Publishing. Boyd Zachery Brannon is chair of the board of Beme Media A.G.
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Joint stock company
Company
Other Print Outlets
Sozcu Newspaper (10.51%); Açık Merk Korkusuz Gazetesi; Gırgır Dergisi
Other Online Outlets
sozcu.com.tr, korkusuz.com.tr, amkspor.sozcu.com.tr
General Information
Founding Year
1993
Founder
Burak Akbay
Affiliated Interests Founder
Born in 1971 in Istanbul, Burak Akbay attended the American College of Switzerland. His first business was starting a newspaper printing press. He founded Sözcü newspaper in 2007. He owns all the shares of Estetik Yayıncılık A.Ş., the company that publishes the newspaper 'Sözcü' as well as its website sozcu.com.tr. Until June 2016, when he resigned, he was the Chair of the Executive Board of Estetik Yayıncılık. He's also the head of the Board of Directors of BAK Medya ve Yayıncılık Hizmetleri A.Ş. company, which was registered in the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette in July 2016 under the category 'television broadcasting'.
Sözcü newspaper, Korkusuz newspaper, GırGır, Sözcü TV and sozcu.com.tr transferred to Beme Media A.G, which was established in Switzerland in 2019. Burak Akbay is the member of the Board of Directors of BEME Media A.G.
Contact
Orhantepe mah. Organgazi Cd. Çamlı Sokak no: 47 Kartal/İstanbul
Tel.: +90 212 698 60 06
Tax/ ID Number
TradeRegistry No: 303525
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
MD
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
MD
Advertising (in % of total funding)
MD
Management
Executive Board
Boyd Zachery Brannon is chair of the board of Beme Media A.G.
Burak Akbay is the member of the board of Beme Media A.G.
Member of board of Directors
Further Information
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Burak Akbay confirmed the company, named BEME Media A.G. established in Switzerland and he said that only the company name has changed and it still belongs to him (November 2020, Medya Koridoru). However, the records indicate that BEME Media Group is the only owner of Estetik Publishing and its affiliated media outlets.
