Who owns Bimcell?
Bimcell is owned by BİM (Turkey, BIST: BIMAS).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: BİM 2025 Entegre Faaliyet Raporu (TSRS Uyumlu), BİM Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- BİM Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇹🇷 Turkey, Istanbul
- Origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- Founded
- 2012
- Category
- Telecom › Mobile › Virtual operators & prepaid
- Parent ticker
- BIST: BIMAS
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Bimcell
Bimcell is the prepaid mobile virtual operator launched by BİM in 2012. Its 2025 report says it charges per second under a pay-as-you-talk option, covers 99.6 per cent of the Turkish population and had 2.5 million subscribers at the end of 2025, with, in its own words, no hidden prices or conditions.
Ownership timeline of Bimcell
Where Bimcell sits in BİM
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by BİM
BİM controls 9 brands on Brandtree.
Founded in the 2010s
- FİLE (2015)
Other brands in mobile, and who owns them
The 16 brands in mobile on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is Liberty Latin America, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| C&W | Liberty Latin America | 🇧🇲 Bermuda |
| Tigo | Millicom | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
| Smart | PLDT | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| by.U | Telkom Indonesia | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| One NZ | Infratil | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| UQ mobile | KDDI | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| NTT DOCOMO | NTT | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Rakuten Mobile | Rakuten | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: BİM
BİM is a publicly listed company headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 1995. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as BIST: BIMAS.
BİM is the Turkish discount grocer whose 2025 integrated annual report says it began in 1995 with 21 stores and ended 2025 with 14,473 stores across Turkey, Morocco and Egypt. It sells mostly goods made to order under its own names, which the report puts at 55 per cent of net sales in 2025, up from 46 per cent in 2005, the year it listed. It also runs the FİLE supermarket chain and the Bimcell mobile service.
🇹🇷 Bimcell and other Turkish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 89 brands that began in Turkey. 11 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Bimcell is not one of them.
- AJet — Turkish Airlines 🇹🇷
- Albeni — Ülker Bisküvi 🇹🇷
- Alpin — Agthia 🇦🇪
- Anadolu Etap — Coca-Cola İçecek 🇹🇷
- Aras Kargo — Austrian Post 🇦🇹
- Arçelik — Arçelik 🇹🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Bimcell?
The parent company of Bimcell is BİM, a publicly listed company headquartered in Turkey.
Is Bimcell Turkish?
Yes. Bimcell originated in Turkey in 2012 and its owner, BİM, is also headquartered in Turkey.
Is Bimcell still owned by BİM?
Yes. As of 14 October 2026, Bimcell is still owned by BİM. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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] BİM 2025 Entegre Faaliyet Raporu (TSRS Uyumlu) — BİM Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş., Annual report; retrieved 14 October 2026.
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