Türkiye's Most Admired CEO: Dr. Aslı Elif Tanuğur

Dr. Aslı Elif Tanuğur Samancı, Chief Executive Officer of BEE'O Propolis, was elected Turkey's most admired CEO through public voting within the scope of the 2022 Golden Leader Awards. At the ceremony, which is considered the Oscar of the business world, over 46,000 individual votes were cast from across Turkey.

Dr. Aslı Elif Tanuğur Samancı made the following statement on the matter:

"Today, I am very grateful to everyone who voted for me to receive the award of Turkey's most admired CEO through public voting within the scope of the 2022 Golden Leader Awards. Together with the spiritual strength gained from bringing Anatolia's valuable propolis and innovative value-added bee products to our consumers, we will continue to work harder to deliver the healing benefits of these miraculous natural products from bees to the entire world."

Dr. Aslı Elif Tanuğur Samancı, noting that BEE'O Propolis was founded in 2013 at Istanbul Technical University ARI Technopark and was the company that initiated Turkey's first domestic propolis production, continued her remarks as follows:

"While searching for a solution to my son's frequent illnesses and immune system problems, I came across propolis, which was not being produced in our country at that time. With support from KOSGEB and Istanbul Technical University's Research and Development, I founded BEE'O to be the first to produce and extract propolis in our country, bringing it into a drop form that the human body can digest. Today, BEE'O has become the largest company in both our country and Europe in value-added bee products, nutritional supplements and skincare products. We are fortunate to continue carrying this pride by exporting to 30 countries and making our country's values known to the world. In addition to producing our products with high quality, we establish scientific evidence for their health benefits and progress through an R&D-focused university-industry collaboration approach. Through scientific studies we have conducted, social responsibility projects in the field of beekeeping that we have implemented, and innovative products we have developed, we have been recognized with 58 national and international awards since our founding day. This success is certainly not a coincidence; we achieved it with our diligent team, working ceaselessly like a beehive, through collective wisdom, expertise and intensive effort. However, we know there is still much ground to cover and this path, like yesterday, may be filled with risks and obstacles today. Obstacles have never discouraged us; on the contrary, they made us stronger and developed our capabilities. We view each new day as a new learning process. We believe in continuous improvement and, to deliver the unique benefits of these products from BEES to the entire world, we continue our journey to becoming a global brand with confident steps. Because we know that where there are BEES, there is LIFE!"