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The Yogurt KIng, Hamdi Ulukaya

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Hamdi Ulukaya

Hamdi Ulukaya is a Turkish finance manager, dissident, and altruist of Kurdish identity situated in the United States. Ulukaya is the proprietor, originator, administrator, and CEO of Chobani, the #1-selling stressed yogurt brand in the US. He set up creation offices first in upstate New York, and from that point forward has extended.

Hamdi Ulukaya was brought up in a dairy-cultivating family in a little town in eastern Turkey. He dispatched Chobani in 2007 with the mission and vision of improving food more available. In under five years, Chobani turned into the main selling Greek yogurt brand in the US, with in excess of a billion dollars in yearly deals.

His bigger achievement came from facing a significant challenge: Ulukaya bought an enormous, dead yogurt plant in upstate New York in 2005, in a district that had been the focal point of a dairy and cheddar industry since the mid-nineteenth century. With no related knowledge in the yogurt business, he has made a yogurt realm, Chobani, with offices in a few states. It accomplished more than $1 billion in yearly deals in under five years after dispatch, turning into the main yogurt brand in the U.S. by 2011. Ernst and Young named Ulukaya as the Ernst and Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2013, and Inc. magazine named him quite possibly the main business visionaries of the previous decade in 2019. Chobani has been named to Fortune’s ‘Change the World’ rundown of organizations, was as of late regarded with a Salute to Greatness Award by The Martin Luther King Jr. Community for Nonviolent Social Change and named one of the ‘Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality’ by the Human Rights Campaign.

Ulukaya has consistently made aiding individuals and emphatically affecting networks a need for Chobani. All along, the organization has given a bit of its benefits to worthy missions. Furthermore, Ulukaya carried out a pivotal benefit sharing project for the organization’s 2,000 representatives. He likewise made the uncommon stride in assembling or initiating a multi week, completely paid parental leave program for the entirety of the organization’s moms and fathers.

Ulukaya established the Tent Partnership for Refugees to assemble the private area to improve the lives and jobs of outcasts all throughout the planet. He likewise marked the Giving Pledge, submitting most of his own abundance to the reason. For these endeavors, he was named an Eminent Advocate by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Ulukaya is additionally a beneficiary of the Oslo Business for Peace Award and was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for his work on the outcast emergency and his imaginative way to deal with business.