YAYLA AGRO GIDA CONTINUES ITS RISE AMONG TURKEY'S INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS WITHOUT SLOWING DOWN
Yayla Agro Gıda, one of the pioneering players in the food sector with its innovative food products, advanced production infrastructure, and sustainable growth vision, is securing its place at the top of Turkish industry. The company ranked 226th in the "Turkey's Top 500 Industrial Enterprises" research announced by the Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ICI) for the year 2025.
This achievement in the ISO 500 list — one of the most important indicators of the Turkish economy and industrial production — served as clear proof of Yayla Agro Gıda's operational efficiency, value-added product strategy, and industrial strength. Despite challenging global and local market conditions, the company continued to increase its production volume and employment, demonstrating one of the most dynamic examples of sustainable growth in the food industry.
The New Hub of Industrial Power: Niğde Integrated Factory
Aiming to take this operational success and production capacity to an even further dimension, Yayla Agro Gıda is multiplying its growth momentum with the Niğde Integrated Factory — its most strategic investment for the future.
The Niğde Integrated Factory, spanning a total closed area of 160,000 square meters and equipped with next-generation food technologies, is becoming the new locomotive of the company's value-added, functional, and enriched food vision. Brought to life with an eco-friendly structure and the support of strong international financing partners such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), this mega facility offers an annual production capacity of 1 million tons of packaging and 71 million packs of ready meals.
With the Niğde Integrated Factory coming into full operation, Yayla Agro Gıda aims to consolidate its strength in industrial production, climb to significantly higher positions in the ISO 500 list in the coming years, and increase Turkey's share in global food trade.
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Having operated for 30 years in rice, legumes, processed food, enriched functional foods, and fast-moving consumer goods, Yayla Agro Gıda continues to bring the finest flavors to the tables of consumers in Turkey and around the world through high quality standards and modern production technologies. The company, which manufactures at its factories in Ankara, Mersin, and Niğde, presents its products to customers across all 81 provinces of Turkey through 9 EDT and 56 packaged product distributors, as well as more than 60,000 points of sale. It also actively continues its operations in international markets, primarily under the Legurme brand. Growing steadily every year, the company considers it its mission to introduce Turkish culinary taste to the world. It grows with its motto of "Building a better future," offering quality, reliable, and innovative products aligned with changing consumption habits and customer demands.
With a company culture built on entrepreneurship, dynamism, and innovation, Yayla Agro Gıda — as part of its mission to be a social enterprise — aims to become a company that shapes today's world, understands trends, invests in them, and internalizes active management of those trends. It believes in the importance of intellectual capital and sustainability. With this belief, it sees creating a sense of belonging among all its stakeholders as an indispensable pillar of sustainable growth.
Positioned as the heart of Yayla Gıda's "Food of the Future" vision, the Niğde facility is more than a conventional production plant — it is an innovation hub equipped with the most advanced technologies in the sector. With its value-added functional food approach, the Yayla Niğde Factory plays a strategic role in shaping the future of food through a wide product portfolio ranging from freeze-dried fruits and vegetables to gluten-free pasta, from rice cakes to oats, muesli & granola, from the bar category to legume chips, classic chip varieties, table sauces, bone marrow broth, and Turkey's first-ever enriched rice product family. The facility, poised to become Turkey's new center for value-added exports, is leading the digital and green transformation of the food industry through its infrastructure, smart manufacturing systems, and its in-house R&D-focused incubation center.