Eren Holding is a

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headquartered in

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, Turkey. It has business interests in paper, packaging, cement, energy, retail and textiles. The holding company was established in 1997 although the history of the group dates back to 1969. Eren Holding's chairman is Ahmet Eren. The group employs 10,000 employees. Due to its coal-fired power stations Eren is one of the largest private sector greenhouse gas emitters in Turkey.

History

Eren was established by four brothers from

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. In 1969, Er-os Çamaşırları A.Ş., an underwear manufacturer and trademark was established. In 1998, Eren Holding entered the energy sector with Modern Enerji Elektrik Üretim Otoprodüktör Grubu A.Ş. In 2003, the Rixos Hotel Bodrum was put into service in

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, Turkey, marking the company's entry into the tourism industry. In 2007, Eren Enerji started construction of a 1360 MW coal-fired power plant in

Zonguldak Zonguldak () is a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It was established in 1849 as a port town for the nearby coal mines in Ereğli and the coal trade remains its main economic activity. According to the ...

, which was completed in 2010. In 2012, Eren Perakende created the multi-brand shoe concept SuperStep stores and multi-brand kids store chain SuperKids. In 2014, a 6 MW biomass power plant started operating. In 2015, Modern Enerji established the first solid waste incineration facility in Turkey. Also in 2015, Modern Karton completed construction of a new paper factory. In 2019, Eren Enerji Elektrik Üretim A.Ş received a silver award at the industry and energy category of the Green World Awards. That was criticized by environmental organizations as

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Operations

Eren Holding controls businesses across several sectors, including energy, paper, cement, retail, ports, packaging and textiles. It owns ports in

and Mersin. Its subsidiaries Eren Kağıt and Modern Karton collect waste paper and recycle it into corrugated

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. Eren owns Turkey's biggest cement factory—Medcem Çimento—in

Mersin Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin Province, Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and dis ...

. As local demand collapsed in 2019, the factory concentrates on exports. ErenTekstil A.Ş. manufactures cotton textiles. Eren Perakende represent a number of international brands in Turkey, including

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, Burberry, GANT, Nautica and Converse. In addition to its physical stores, it sells online through Occasion, Sanal Çadır, SuperStep and FashFed e-commerce sites. Eren Holding's subsidiary Eren Energy owns the coal-fired

ZETES power stations The Zonguldak Eren Termik Santrali (ZETES) power stations in Zonguldak are 3 coal-fired power stations in Turkey totaling 2790 MW owned by Eren Holding via Eren Enerji. Built between 2010 and 2016, ZETES-1 is 160 MW, ZETES-2 is 1230 MW ...

. Another energy subsidiary, Modern Energy, owns a solid waste incineration facility and natural gas-fired and biomass-fired power plants in

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Greenhouse gas emissions

Due to its cement factory in

Silifke Silifke ( grc-gre, Σελεύκεια, ''Seleukeia'', la, Seleucia ad Calycadnum) is a town and district in south-central Mersin Province, Turkey, west of the city of Mersin, on the west end of Çukurova. Silifke is near the Mediterranean coast ...

coal-fired power stations A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide, there are about 8,500 coal-fired power stations totaling over 2,000 gigawatts capacity. They generate about a th ...

and coal-fired steam boiler Eren is one of the largest private sector greenhouse gas emitters in Turkey. As the largest private sector owner of coal-fired electricity generating capacity in Turkey the company is on the Global Coal Exit List, and is one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the country: however although corporate emissions measurements are reported to the government they are not published.

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estimates Eren Energy’s coal-fired power plants emitted 15 million tons (2.7%) of the country’s total 560 million tons of greenhouse gas in 2021.

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