Koton

Geschichte

Twenty-nine years ago, two young people made a life-changing decision. Yılmaz Yılmaz, a naval officer, and his wife Gülden, a teacher, decided to invest in something completely unfamiliar to them: the textile sector. During the summer of 1988, they opened a shop in Kuzguncuk, a small, picturesque neighbourhood on the Asian side of Istanbul. The shop was a mere 25 metres square, fitted out with shelving taken from a nearby shop that was being renovated. Today, the Koton brand has 220,000 square metres of shop floor area in 500 stores found in 45 countries across the world.