Rank #2576
Ahmet Calik
Net worth $1.6B
Energy, banking, construction · Turkey
- Born
- Mar 01, 1958
- Age
- 68
- Source
- Energy, banking, construction
- Residence
- Istanbul
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Ahmet Calik built his fortune on denim, selling to Diesel, Levi's, Gap and other Western brands, but textiles are now ancillary in his group Calik Holding.
- With a footprint stretching from Turkey and the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Calik is active in construction, banking, telecom and mining.
- Calik Holding has a partnership with Mitsubishi Corp. dating back to 1990s, when the companies began collaborating on plant construction in Central Asia.
- In 2015, Mitsubishi acquired 4.5% of Calik Energy, which serves five cities in Turkey and has projects in such places as Turkmenistan, Libya, Georgia and Yemen.
- Besides providing services to energy plants, the company has electricity and gas distribution businesses and a portfolio of power generation assets.
- In terms of contract value, Calik Holding's pipeline of construction and energy projects amounts to around $7 billion.