Forming its business plans in accordance with the vision of providing innovative service beyond expectations, Doğuş Otomotiv structures its corporate strategy with the aim of having a productive and profitable presence in every stage of the automotive value chain. Doğuş Otomotiv has the widest range of brand portfolio and services network of its sector in Turkey.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2009, Doğuş Otomotiv is the leading automotive importer and one of the biggest distributors in Turkey. The company represents 14 international brands each of which is the leader of the following sectors:
- Passenger cars
- Light commercial vehicles
- Heavy commercial vehicles
- Industrial and marine engines
- Cooling systems
Doğuş Otomotiv provides its individual and corporate customers with a rich portfolio of more than 80 models of Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti, SEAT, Skoda, Scania, Krone and Meiller. Aside from these, the Company competes in the industrial and marine engines market by representing the brand Scania Engines and in the cooling systems market representing Thermo King brand.
Embracing the concept of unconditional customer satisfaction as its number one priority, Doğuş Otomotiv has one of the widest Authorized Dealer and Service networks of Turkey. Its more than 500 contact points, which are spread around Turkey, helps Doğuş Otomotiv to render widespread and continuous services to its customers in sales, after sales and spare parts areas.
Doğuş Otomotiv is the only company in the world that brings every Volkswagen Group brands together under a single roof. Apart from its import and distributorship activities, the company enlarges its portfolio of services in line with its philosophy of having a productive and profitable presence in every stage of the automotive value chain. Aside from its activities in automotive financing, spare parts and accessories, logistics and customer services, used car dealership, fleet management and leasing, vehicle inspection and insurance, Doğuş Otomotiv has largely invested in production as well. In addition to the "Meiller Doğuş Damper" factory established in Sakarya with the partnership of leading damper producer Meiller in 2008, the establishment process of a trailer factory in Tire, İzmir is finalized and is ready to start production.
Doğuş Otomotiv is involved in brand new investments to convey its successful operations to overseas. As a result of the close cooperation developed with VW Group based on mutual trust, the Company has put D-Auto Suisse SA, a Porsche Dealer and Service station, in to operation in September 2009 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
With its 1,700 employees Doğuş Otomotiv is one of the key players of automotive sector in Turkey. Grace to its uncompromisingly persevered dynamic services concept, which is focused on customer satisfaction, since the first day of its inception, Doğuş Otomotiv is a top ranking brand among Turkey's most appreciated and trusted brands according to the surveys done on corporate credibility.
Doğuş Otomotiv, Turkey's leading automotive distributor, is listed in the top 50 companies of "Capital 500" and "Fortune 500" rankings in 2009. Doğuş Otomotiv shares were offered to public in 2004 and are traded under the ticker symbol "DOAS.IS" in İstanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) ISE 100.
The Company started to implement sustainability activities as of the year 2009 to bring its social responsibility activities in to a broader platform and disseminating them into every business process, which started in 2004 under the heading "Traffic is Life" that aims to increase responsibility, awareness and perception of traffic by the Turkish public, notably the young generation.
Doğuş Otomotiv is a member of Doğuş Group, who operates in financial services, automotive, construction, media, tourism, real estate and energy.