Platinum Award from MarCom Awards to Santa Farma's ZindeConnect Platform

Santa Farma İlaç's next-generation internal communication platform ZindeConnect was deemed worthy of the Platinum Award, the highest honor in the "Intranet" category at the 2026 MarCom Awards. The achievement, obtained in a competition where more than 6,000 projects from the US, Canada and 40 different countries were evaluated, highlighted the company's digitalization and employee experience development-focused efforts on an international platform.

Santa Farma İlaç, one of Türkiye's well-established pharmaceutical companies, achieved international success with the ZindeConnect platform, which combines its more than 80 years of corporate experience with digital solutions. The platform, developed by the company to digitalize its internal communication processes, won the Platinum Award in the "Intranet" category at the 2026 MarCom Awards.

ZindeConnect, which facilitates employees' access to corporate processes, increases interaction between teams, and supports information sharing, contributes to the development of a more transparent and dynamic internal communication culture at Santa Farma.

Deemed worthy of the Platinum Award among more than 6,000 projects

MarCom Awards, held since 2004 to reward successful work in marketing and communications, announced its 2026 winners. In the competition, where more than 6,000 projects from the US, Canada and 40 different countries were evaluated, ZindeConnect won the Platinum Award, the highest honor in the "Intranet" category.

MarCom Awards, managed by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), determines its winners as a result of evaluations by independent industry professionals. In the competition, which features a wide range of participants from Fortune 500 companies to international agencies, projects are evaluated according to criteria such as creativity, innovation and quality of execution.

ZindeConnect was among the projects deemed worthy of an award on an international scale with its approach aimed at strengthening employee experience and improving internal communication.

Velioğlu: "With ZindeConnect, we have established a living communication ecosystem"

Santa Farma İlaç Corporate Communications and Brand Manager Bahar Velioğlu, drawing attention to the significance of the award for the company's corporate communication vision, made the following assessment:

"The foundation of corporate communication consists of dynamic bonds that listen to the voice of our employees, hear them, and nurture a sense of corporate belonging. While designing the ZindeConnect platform, we aimed to create not just an information-sharing space, but a living communication ecosystem where our colleagues can interact directly with one another and feel our company's shared energy and culture at every moment.

The fact that this vision of ours has been crowned with the Platinum Award, the highest step, by the MarCom Awards jury, where creative projects from all around the world compete, is the most concrete indication that we are on the right path. I sincerely thank all our colleagues who have embraced the platform and turned it into a living experience with their daily contributions, as well as our teams who contributed to our project."

About Santa Farma İlaç

Santa Farma İlaç, one of Türkiye's well-established pharmaceutical companies, has been operating in the sector for more than 80 years. The company entered the sector in 1944 with Farma Laboratuvarı. After merging with Santa Laboratuvarı and entering a growth process, the company's corporate structure took shape as Santa Farma İlaç Fabrikası Kollektif Şirketi in 1954, and as Santa Farma İlaç Sanayi A.Ş. in 1973.

Santa Farma İlaç operates in Türkiye with 74 brands and 150 products across 10 different therapeutic categories. The company's fields of activity include dermatology, musculoskeletal system, digestive system, urogenital system, hematology, cardiovascular and cardiometabolic system, nervous system, endocrine and metabolism, respiratory system, and infectious diseases.

Santa Farma, which carries out generic product development, licensing and manufacturing activities for European Union countries and other regulated markets, has a production facility at GEBKİM OSB that holds EU/EAEU/ANVISA-GMP certifications. The facility, which has 44,000 square meters of indoor space, has an annual production capacity of around 150 million boxes.

Continuing its activities in line with its mission of "seeking solutions to improve human health and quality of life" and its goal of "Providing Healthy Service to Health," Santa Farma aims to add value to people's lives in more than 65 countries.