Dardanel is a Turkish food packager based in the town of

Çanakkale Çanakkale (pronounced ), ancient ''Dardanellia'' (), is a city and seaport in Turkey in Çanakkale province on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. The population of the city is 195,439 (2021 estimate). Çanakkale is ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

, on the

Dardanelles The Dardanelles (; tr, Çanakkale Boğazı, lit=Strait of Çanakkale, el, Δαρδανέλλια, translit=Dardanéllia), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; ...

strait.

History

1984–1999

The company was founded in 1984 by Niyazi Önen as Turkey's first producer of canned tuna fish, and was listed on the

Istanbul Stock Exchange The Borsa İstanbul (abbreviated as BIST) is the sole exchange entity of Turkey combining the former Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) ( tr, İstanbul Menkul Kıymetler Borsası, IMKB), the Istanbul Gold Exchange ( tr, İstanbul Altın Borsası, İA ...

in 1994. From the 1990s the product range expanded from the "Dardanel Ton" canned tuna to other canned foods and ready-made sandwiches. Dardanel is authorized to use the

Dolphin Safe Dolphin-safe labels are used to denote compliance with laws or policies designed to minimize dolphin fatalities during fishing for tuna destined for canning. Some labels impose stricter requirements than others. Dolphin-safe tuna labeling origina ...

badge on its products. In 1991, the company started sponsoring the football club Çanakkale Dardanelspor A.Ş, and has been a sponsor ever since.

2010s–present

In 2011, the company opened a fish and bread restaurant chain called Dardenia, with the first restaurant being opened in

Bağdat Avenue Bağdat Avenue ( tr, Bağdat Caddesi, literally ''Baghdad Avenue'') is one of the most important high streets on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, Turkey. It runs approximately from Maltepe in the east to Kadıköy in the west, almost parallelin ...

. In 2021, Dardanel acquired Greek seafood company G. Kallimanis for 6.2 million euros.

References

External links

Official site
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