Hamdi Ulukaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Hamdi Ulukaya

Kurdish-Turkish businessman

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1972

Place of Birth: Erzincan, Turkey

Profession: businessperson, entrepreneur, chief executive officer, philanthropist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Hamdi Ulukaya

  • Hamdi Ulukaya (born c.
  • 26 October 1972) is a Turkish-Kurdish billionaire businessman and philanthropist, based in the United States.
  • Ulukaya is the owner, founder, chairman, and CEO of Chobani, the #1-selling strained yogurt (Greek-style) brand in the US.
  • He established production facilities first in upstate New York, and since then has expanded.
  • According to Forbes, his net worth as of June 2019 is US$2.0 billion.
  • On April 26, 2016, Ulukaya announced to his employees that he would be giving them 10% of the shares in Chobani.Born to a dairy-farming family in 1972 in Erzincan, a small village in Turkey, Ulukaya immigrated as a young man to the U.S.
  • in 1994 to study English and to take a few business courses.
  • In an interview with CNN Money, Ulukaya said that he was very serious about Kurdish rights and left Turkey due to the Turkish state's oppression of its Kurdish minority group.
  • In 2002, he started a modest feta-cheese factory on the advice of his father. His larger success came from taking a major risk: Ulukaya purchased a large, defunct yogurt factory in upstate New York in 2005, in a region that had been the center of a dairy and cheese industry since the mid-nineteenth century.
  • With no prior experience in the yogurt business, he has created a yogurt empire, Chobani, with facilities in several states.
  • It achieved over $1 billion in annual sales in less than five years after launch, becoming the leading yogurt brand in the U.S.
  • by 2011.
  • The popularity of his Greek-style yogurt was associated with rising interest in the protein-rich, low-fat style yogurt; Greek yogurt's market share in the U.S.
  • rose from less than 1% in 2007 to more than 50% in 2013.
  • Ernst & Young named Ulukaya as the World Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013.
  • The success of his yogurt empire has made Ulukaya a billionaire; he has developed new employment centers in several regions, adding to the economy of relatively rural areas.

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