Every arrangement ends. Two of the endings are good ones.
Either you grow enough to build your own organisation and take the operation in-house, or the project finishes and the structure is closed properly. Both are successful endings. The third possibility — discovering at the end that nobody planned for either — is the one this page exists to prevent.
Growing: supplier and distributor development, marketplace operations, procurement support and incentive assessment.
Ending: transferring the operation to your own organisation, or closing the structure. We plan for both at the beginning, because that is the only point at which planning is cheap.
The verification matters more than the introduction.
Anyone can produce a list of companies in a sector, and several firms sell exactly that. What determines whether a partner relationship works is what you know before the first meeting — not how many names were on the sheet.
For suppliers, that means somebody walks into the facility. For distributors, it means understanding what happens to your brand on the day your interests and theirs stop pointing the same way.
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Supplier search and verification
Registry and financial checks, then a site visit. Capacity, equipment, quality systems, and whether the company that made the samples is the company that will run the line.
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Distributor and dealer development
Longlist from trade data rather than directories, verification before the meeting, and negotiation support — including the termination terms you will want later.
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Procurement support
RFQ management, commercial terms, quality arrangements and the follow-up that turns an agreed price into delivered goods.
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Marketplace and digital operations
Store setup, catalogue, integration and campaigns for categories where the Turkish market buys online first — with the fulfillment behind them.
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Incentives and support schemes
What your case actually qualifies for and what the application costs in time and conditions. We assess rather than publish a list, because eligibility rules change and stale lists mislead.
Very few will describe the ending.
Two endings, two different projects.
The silence about this in our market is commercially rational and it leaves the client holding the hardest part alone. We would rather have the conversation once, at the start, when it still changes decisions.
Handover
People, processes, supplier and customer relationships, system access and the document history — on an agreed date, with a period where both sides are still involved. The outcome we design for.
Designed forClosure
Statutory waiting periods under the Turkish Commercial Code and a tax review triggered by the closure filing. Whoever is appointed to run it carries personal exposure for what surfaces.
Plan in year oneLegal basisCompany liquidation procedure sits in the Turkish Commercial Code, Law No. 6102. The closure filing brings a tax review, and the liquidator carries personal responsibility for liabilities that emerge during it.
The history is the part that goes wrong. An operation handed over without its reasoning leaves your new team reconstructing three years of context while running the business.
Why handover is a project with a dateA client who grows enough to take the operation in-house is the outcome we design for, and our terms say so rather than leaving it to goodwill. An arrangement that becomes difficult to exit is a retention tactic, and clients can tell the difference — usually at the moment they most need it not to be true.
It is also better business than it looks. A company that outgrew us is a reference, and building the organisation it outgrew us into is itself an engagement.
Questions we are actually asked.
Starting with why these two subjects share a page.
Why is growth on the same page as exit?
Because they are the same decision seen from different ends. A company that scales in Türkiye eventually either builds its own organisation and takes the operation in-house, or reaches the end of the project and stops. Both are endings for the arrangement, and both go better when they were designed rather than improvised.
Providers usually separate them because growth is pleasant to sell and exit is not. We would rather have the conversation once, at the start.
What does handover actually involve?
People, processes, supplier and customer relationships, system access, and the document history — transferred to the organisation you have built, on an agreed date, with a defined period where both sides are still involved.
The part that goes wrong is the history. An operation handed over without its correspondence, filings and the reasoning behind past decisions leaves your new team reconstructing three years of context while running the business.
Is it a problem for you if we take the operation in-house?
No. It is the outcome we design for, and the terms say so rather than leaving it to goodwill. An arrangement that becomes difficult to leave is a retention tactic, and clients can tell the difference.
It also happens to be good business. A company that grew enough to need its own organisation is a reference, and the work of building that organisation is itself an engagement.
And if we want to close instead?
Then it is a liquidation and it is a real project. Closure runs through statutory waiting periods under the Turkish Commercial Code, and the closure filing brings a tax review. Whoever is appointed to run it carries personal exposure for what surfaces afterwards.
Two things decide how that goes: whether the accounts were certified each year, and whether the person appointed is positioned to run it properly. Both are decided long before anyone is thinking about closing.
Can you find us a distributor or a supplier?
Yes — longlist, verification, introduction, negotiation support. The useful part is the verification rather than the introduction: whether the candidate already sells to your customers, whether they carry a competing line, what their financial position actually is.
For suppliers, verification means somebody goes to the facility. For distributors, it means understanding what happens to your brand when your interests and theirs diverge.
What about incentives and support schemes?
There are investment incentive mechanisms, regional schemes and sector programmes, and some genuinely change the economics of an expansion. Others are marketed more enthusiastically than they are received.
We assess what your case actually qualifies for and what the application costs in time and conditions, rather than listing programmes on a website. Eligibility rules change, and a stale list is a liability.
Legislation named on this page: Turkish Commercial Code, Law No. 6102. The Official Gazette date and issue for each is on the key figures page, read at source rather than restated here — a citation does not change, but a copy of the law goes stale.
Closing a company in Türkiye
The three-month statutory wait, the review the closing filing can trigger, and who carries personal liability.
Tax & Accounting
Annual certification, and why the cheapest decision about your exit is made in year one.
Grow Türkiye
Sourcing, distribution and using Türkiye as a regional base.
Tell us what you want to do
Including if what you want is to hand the whole thing over and stop.