about us
Based out of Turkey’s capital Ankara, family owned KARTUZ has been in the salt business for nearly five decades. Throughout this time, we have built and maintained long-lasting relations with large, small, private, and public companies who trust our services. We have benefited from the perfect blend of our family-business core values and advantages of the corporate culture.
With a team of young and vibrant professionals, we are devoted to quality, consistency of our services and client satisfaction. Our enthusiastic staff from technical and creative fields are working towards reaching success with a never-ending motivation.You learn a few things during 45 years in the salt business. We utilize that expertise to tirelessly explore Turkey and the world to choose only the best quality salt and process it using a combination of traditional methods and sophisticated technology. We can offer you nearly all varieties of salt: natural rock salts, sea salts, refined salts, industrial salts, tablet salts, de-icing salts and more.
Our retail brand BiSALT has a rich gourmet selection of all-natural salts that are never processed with chemicals, totally unrefined and rich in minerals. BiSALT maintains its position as the market leader with 40 products sold at 1500 sales points across Turkey.
1975
1989
2010
With the vision of second generation, KARTUZ starts to focus on all-natural salt market. As a result, BiSALT, a retail brand dedicated to natural salt production, is created.
2011
BiSALT becomes the first brand to introduce natural Himalayan rock salt to Turkish market.
2015
Second generation completely takes over the company management. The new team sets up guidelines for establishing a corporate culture by revising company structure to include focused departments.
2017
BiSALT gourmet salt collection starts to take its place on the shelves of 1000 global and local retail chains.
2017
BiSALT is rewarded TTKD’s ‘Golden Brand’ Consumer Award.
2018
KARTUZ starts expanding its export capability by selling gourmet salt products to the neighbouring countries as well as Europe and Asia both with its own brand and through private labelling.
2019
KARTUZ moves to its new location, a modern building where production facility and management departments can freely exist together.
2020
BiSALT takes its position as the natural salt market leader with 40 products sold at 2000 sales points across Turkey.
2021
As of 2021, BiSALT reaches the sale of 2 million packaged natural salt products.