Who owns Agesa?
Agesa is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Sabancı Holding (Turkey, BIST: SAHOL) holds a 40% stake.[1] Sabancı Holding and Ageas each hold 40.0% of Agesa; the rest is free float.
Evidence: Sabancı Holding Integrated Annual Report 2025, Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş. (40% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇹🇷 Turkey, Istanbul
- Origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- Category
- Finance & insurance › Insurance › Life & health insurance
- Parent ticker
- BIST: SAHOL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Agesa
Agesa Hayat ve Emeklilik is a Turkish life insurance and private pension company owned 40.0% by Sabancı Holding and 40.0% by Ageas, which the report links to Avivasa in 2021. It says Agesa has led private-sector pensions since 2015 and life insurance since 2022, with pension fund assets up 77% to TL 390 billion in 2025 and life premiums of TL 24.4 billion.
Ownership timeline of Agesa
Where Agesa sits in Sabancı Holding
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Bulutistan (75.5%)
- Carrefoursa (57.1%)
- Çimsa (54.5%)
- Enerjisa Üretim (50%)
- Teknosa (50%)
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See the full Sabancı Holding brand portfolio (5) →
Other brands owned by Sabancı Holding
Sabancı Holding controls 6 brands on Brandtree.
- Bulutistan
- Carrefoursa
- Çimsa (1972)
- Enerjisa Üretim
- Teknosa (2000)
Other brands in life & health insurance, and who owns them
The 33 brands in life & health insurance on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is Nippon Life, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| LIC | LIC of India | 🇮🇳 India |
| Hanasaku Life Insurance | Nippon Life | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Meiji Yasuda | Meiji Yasuda | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Assupol | Sanlam | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Elips Life | Swiss Re | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| American Income Life | Globe Life | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Singlife | Sumitomo Life | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| CNP Assurances | CNP Assurances | 🇫🇷 France |
About the owner: Sabancı Holding
Sabancı Holding is a publicly listed company headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 1967.
Sabancı Holding is the investment holding company of the Sabancı family, which the 2025 integrated annual report says jointly controls it as majority shareholder while 53.2% of its shares are publicly traded. It traces the group to 1925, when Hacı Ömer Sabancı began trading cotton in Adana, and dates the holding itself to 1967 and its Borsa Istanbul listing to 8 July 1997. Its portfolio now spans banking and insurance, electricity generation, cement, retail and cloud services, much of it held jointly with foreign partners such as Ageas, E.ON, Heidelberg Materials and Carrefour.
Sabancı Holding: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇹🇷 Agesa and other Turkish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 94 brands that began in Turkey. 11 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Agesa is not one of them.
- AJet — Turkish Airlines 🇹🇷
- Actisoft — BİM 🇹🇷
- Albeni — Ülker Bisküvi 🇹🇷
- Alpin — Agthia 🇦🇪
- Anadolu Etap — Coca-Cola İçecek 🇹🇷
- Aras Kargo — Austrian Post 🇦🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Agesa?
No single company recorded here owns Agesa outright. Sabancı Holding holds a 40% stake.
Does Sabancı Holding control Agesa?
Not on the shareholding alone: a 40% holding is not a majority. Sabancı Holding and Ageas each hold 40.0% of Agesa; the rest is free float.
Where did Agesa come from?
Agesa originated in Turkey.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Sabancı Holding Integrated Annual Report 2025 — Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş., Annual report; retrieved 19 October 2026.
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