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Daikin Industries, which has been leading the air conditioning industry since 1924 and will celebrate its 100th anniversary in October 2024, announced that it has appointed Hasan Önder as the President of Daikin Middle East and Africa Region. Hasan Önder will also serve as the President of Turkey and its affiliated CIS countries (Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Tajikistan and Northern Iraq, Mongolia, TRNC). He will continue his efforts to achieve Daikin's global goals. It will continue in a large geography.

TURKEY - Hasan Önder entered business life as an entrepreneur in 1999 by establishing the Airfel brand in the heating-cooling market. It created a network of approximately 500 sales points, 150 authorized dealers and 500 authorized services in Turkey with individual and commercial air conditioner sales. After its merger with Sanko Holding in Turkey in 2001, it made a name for itself in the sector with the Airfel brand. In 2006, it established a factory in Sakarya-Hendek (Turkey) serving the heating-cooling market on an area of 95,000 m2, producing combi boilers, air conditioning units, panel radiators and air handling units. It has increased the capacity of the factory located in Sakarya-Hendek since then, making it an important production centre of the region, which operates under the umbrella of Daikin Turkey in an area of 163 thousand square meters today. Önder was selected as Turkey's "Most Successful Young General Manager" in Capital Magazine's "Those Walking to Success" competition in 2008 with these successful works.

Following Daikin's acquisition of the Airfel brand in 2011, he has worked at Daikin for 12 years as the CEO of Daikin Turkey and CIS countries. He has been an Executive Committee member at Daikin Europe since July 2012. Since he took office in 2011, he has achieved great success by strengthening the sales network and enabling Daikin Turkey to increase its turnover in Euro terms by 520 per cent.

Daikin Turkey ranked 113th in the 2022 "Turkey's 500 Largest Industrial Enterprises List" (ISO 500) prepared by the Istanbul Chamber of Industry and ranked 151st in the Capital Magazine Turkey's Largest 500 Companies survey and Turkey as announced by Fortune Magazine. It ranked 125th in the 500 Largest Companies of Turkey. At the same time, Daikin Turkey, which has been the "Brand that Exports the Most Split Air Conditioners" by the Air Conditioning Industry Exporters Association (İSİB) since 2016, became the industry champion in the top 1000 exporter company rankings of 2022 announced by the Exporters Assembly (TİM) and ranked 70th in the general rankings. It has achieved significant success under the leadership of Hasan Önder, ranking.

Önder, who has implemented many strategies such as the implementation of Daikin's "people-oriented management" approach and Daikin's goals of adding value to society, said the following about his new position;

“Daikin is a leading brand in the air conditioning industry with a turnover of 28.2 billion Euros. As we all know, environmental and structural changes are occurring worldwide. As Daikin, we prepare and implement strategies with all our teams to anticipate these changes in line with our 2025 targets. Our main goal is to design and implement our activities for these strategies and to increase the comfort of each person's life by providing our customers with"higher quality indoor air". To achieve this goal, we will achieve our goals through new mergers, investments and strengthening our team, considering the dynamics of the Middle East and Africa Region. At the same time, by following technological developments in line with our FUSION 25 targets, we will continue to offer our customers complete solutions with heating-cooling and energy-efficient products in both individual and commercial areas. Producing its refrigerant and compressor in the air conditioning sector: As the only company that offers products and services in this direction, we will consider producing solutions to social problems, expanding business volume and creating new values in the air and environment fields as our strategic goals. We evaluate the themes of our Daikin FUSION 25 strategy, which we created in line with our Environmental Vision, which aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 within this framework. In addition, as Daikin, we will continue to play an active role with new projects in solving social problems in our geography. Based on our promise of "being a carbon-neutral company", we will continue to work for a livable world with our R&D teams. We will increase our investments to offer new solutions and products according to the geographical location of the Middle East and Africa Region. "We aim to increase our employment with all our activities by experiencing Daikin's "people-oriented management" approach with our entire team."