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It is not a retail pharmacy, but a well-known large-scale comprehensive pharmaceutical and hygiene/disinfection product manufacturer with nearly a century of history. Here’s a detailed introduction about the company: 🏢 Company Background and Scale • Founded: Established in 1934, it is one of the oldest local pharmaceutical factories in modern Turkey, with 100% Turkish capital. • Production Base: Its modern central laboratory and factory are located in Çekmeköy, Istanbul, Turkey, with high-standard closed production workshops covering an area of 7,000 square meters. • Certification Standards: Production is fully supervised by the Turkish Ministry of Health (T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı) and has passed a series of international certifications including cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice), cGLP (Good Laboratory Practice), ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 (Medical Device Quality Management System). 🧪 Core Products and Business Merkez İlaç follows its iconic slogan “#sağlıkiçinhijyenşart” (Hygiene is a prerequisite for health) and is the leader in Turkey for first aid, skin care, and disinfection products, with the most complete product categories and extremely high market share: 1. Disinfection and Anti-infection Series (core products): • Produces various professional and consumer skin disinfectants, hand sanitizers, anti-infection foams, surgical wipes, and wound cleansers (common brands include Opakjel and İsosol series). 2. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medicines and Ointments: • Produces skin ointments and creams, such as İhtamol ointment, Starbaz cream, İsosol ointment, Vitamin E, and baby diaper rash cream (Pişik Kremi) for skin care, burns, and eczema. 3. First Aid and Medical Consumables: • It is the first and only company in the Turkish pharmaceutical industry to legally produce standardized first aid kits (Hızır medical kits, covering earthquakes, home, car, and industrial scenarios) and household/commercial medicine boxes. 4. Contract Manufacturing (CMO): • In addition to its own brand, it also manufactures tablets, capsules, sprays, drops, liquids, and semi-solid ointments for over 50 global and local pharmaceutical companies. 🌍 Industry Influence The company’s service network is extremely extensive, directly supplying products to over 3,000 local pharmacists and more than 9,500 hospitals and clinics in Turkey, and exporting to multiple overseas countries. In international humanitarian aid (such as Red Crescent supplies and earthquake donations), it is also a major provider of medical supplies and surgical/first aid consumables in Turkey.