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Fulfilling Every Customer’s Wish

Karaca Store
Galata, Istanbul
The Karaca story began 50 years ago when the Turkish brand started life as
a small family business and it has been synonymous with excellent quality,
innovative products and fair prices ever since. In this interview, RLI speaks
with Fatih Karaca, CEO of Karaca to discuss the company’s expansion, its
family of brands and its long-awaited launch into the UK.

ack in 1973, Hüseyin Karaca launched a “From the very start, we have always been committed
small workshop in Süleymaniye called to adding value and the joy of sharing to people’s homes
BKaraca Züccaciye, which began life and family life,” explains Fatih Karaca, CEO of Karaca.
employing 30 people who created patterned “Our story has spread from one family to many and with
glassware. The business quickly grew to it our family has grown and multiplied.”
incorporate the sales of porcelain and by the 90s Today the Karaca name encompasses 11 brands,
they had established a large customer portfolio Karaca, Karaca Home, Emsan, Jumbo, Cook Plus,
through the distribution of small household Kaşmir Halı, Homend, Nautica Home, Weimar
electrical appliances. As the stature of the company Porzelland, Pera Bulvarı and Cooklife. Its own
continued to increase, they began producing steel brand Karaca brings together a staggering 28,000
cookware sets under their own brand of Karaca in products across 140 categories ranging from
1999 and they have never looked back. dinnerware to small home appliances.

Karaca, New Islington Square
London, UK