Our Founder

Rıfat Kaleoğlu was born in 1934 in Gaziantep / Turkey. He was a successful, honorable, respectable and beloved businessman. While he was in his 30’s he founded Rıfat Mensucat Company which shows how brave and entrepreneur he was. By founding Rıfat Mensucat he developed and improved his business which he was running with his family in the early times.

After Rıfat Mensucat, he founded Ritaş Mensucat and Ridop A.Ş. companies thus he was strengthen the basis of his foundations. In the late 1960’s he exported the products for the first time. This export activities shows how couragely and enterprisingly he did his business.

Thanks to the investment that he did all those years in 1990’s Rıfat Kaleoğlu was a businessman who was respectable, honorable, and recognizable both in Turkey and abroad. During those years with his sons M.Sami Kaleoğlu and Sadi Kaleoğlu, he invested in acrylic yarn, polypropylene products, fiber and nonwoven fabric manufactures. With the investments one after the other Rıfat Kaleoğlu ride high and his companies today both contribute the national economy and create employment.

While searching for the investment opportunities and running his business successfully Rıfat Kaleoğlu has passed away on 29.01.2005 while he was 71.

After his dead, the next generations have been keeping his memory alive forever by adopting his principles, courage, entrepreneurship, long-sightedness, and prestige that are inherited from him.