Who owns Çimsa?
Çimsa is owned by Sabancı Holding (Turkey, BIST: SAHOL).[1]
Sabancı Holding owns 54.5% of Çimsa rather than all of it.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Sabancı Holding Integrated Annual Report 2025, Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş. (54.5% stake) reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇹🇷 Turkey, Istanbul
- Origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- Founded
- 1972
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Home improvement › Building materials
- Parent ticker
- BIST: SAHOL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Çimsa
Çimsa is the cement and building materials company that Sabancı lists as one of its core industrial brands, launched in 1972. The 2025 report says Sabancı holds 54.5% and Akçansa another 9.0%, and that Çimsa bought the Irish company Mannok in 2024, opened a grey cement grinding plant in Houston and entered the United States in 2023. It reports 9 million tons of cement and 7 million tons of clinker capacity.
Ownership timeline of Çimsa
- Current owner Sabancı Holding (54.5%) [1] reported Sabancı Holding holds 54.5% of Çimsa and Akçansa a further 9.0%; 36.0% is free float.
Where Çimsa 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%)
Open the full Sabancı Holding ownership tree →
See the full Sabancı Holding brand portfolio (5) →
Other brands owned by Sabancı Holding
Sabancı Holding controls 5 brands on Brandtree.
Other brands in building materials, and who owns them
The 101 brands in building materials on Brandtree belong to 32 owners. The largest is James Hardie, with 8.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Bay | Fletcher Building | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| AZEK Exteriors | James Hardie | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Blenture | Votorantim Cimentos | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Adbri | CRH | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Artevia | Holcim | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Byggmakker | Kesko | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Cacique Max | Loma Negra | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Alutions | Tecnoglass | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
About the owner: Sabancı Holding
Sabancı Holding is a publicly listed company headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 1967. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as BIST: SAHOL.
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 →
🇹🇷 Çimsa 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; Çimsa is not one of them.
- Actisoft — BİM 🇹🇷
- Divanev — Yataş 🇹🇷
- Filli Boya — Nippon Paint 🇯🇵
- Koçtaş — Kingfisher 🇬🇧
- Macrocenter — Migros 🇹🇷
- AJet — Turkish Airlines 🇹🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Çimsa?
The parent company of Çimsa is Sabancı Holding, a publicly listed company headquartered in Turkey.
Is Çimsa Turkish?
Yes. Çimsa originated in Turkey in 1972 and its owner, Sabancı Holding, is also headquartered in Turkey.
Is Çimsa still owned by Sabancı Holding?
Yes. As of 19 October 2026, Çimsa is still owned by Sabancı Holding (54.5% stake). 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] Sabancı Holding Integrated Annual Report 2025 — Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş., Annual report; retrieved 19 October 2026.
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