Arcelik LTF

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Arcelik A.S. (“Arcelik” or the “company” - https://www.arcelikglobal.com/en ) is a leading manufacturer of consumer durables and consumer electronics headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. The company has 30 production facilities in 9 countries (Turkey, Romania, India, Pakistan, Russia, Bangladesh, South-Africa, China and Thailand), several R&D design centers and performs sales in more than150 countries globally. Arcelik is publicly listed and the major shareholder is Koc Holding, the largest Turkish conglomerate. Arcelik produces refrigerators, washing machines, dishwasher, tumble dryers, oven, cookers, televisions, consumer electronics, small household appliances, and AC devices in its production facilities (thirteen of them located in Turkey, two in Romania, two in Bangladesh and the remainder in other countries). Among the company’s flagship brands are Arçelik, Beko, Grundig, Arctic, Altus, Dawlance, Flavel, Blomberg, Elektrabregenz and Defy. The company also has two facilities for waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling in Bolu and Eskisehir, in Turkey. Turkey and Romania are the largest countries of operation in terms of production volume and staff numbers. The proposed investment is a senior, unsecured A-Loan of up to EUR150 million to finance Arcelik’s working capital needs in Turkey and construction of a new Singer (refrigerator, washing machine, television, AC devices and other household appliances) manufacturing facility in Bangladesh. The new facility in Bangladesh will be located in Bangladesh Special Economic Zone (BSEZ) in Araihazar subdistrict in Narayanganj district, located 29 km away from the Dhaka city center and was built by the Bangladesh Economic Zone Development Authority (BEZA) between 2019 and 2021 in cooperation with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).  Construction work for the new plant is expected to start at the mid of May 2022 and will last around 14 months. After commissioning of the new facility, the company’s existing two Singer Bangladesh facilities located in Hemayetpur area in Dhaka will be closed with one of them turned into a distribution center for Singer Bangladesh. IFC supported Arcelik in the past (between 1998-2005). IFC currently has ongoing investments in other Koc group companies [e.g., Otosan #43017 (https://disclosures.ifc.org/project-detail/ESRS/43017/otosan) & Tupras #36388 (https://disclosures.ifc.org/project-detail/ESRS/36388/tupras)].