GLOBAL CLUB is an exclusive club which is introducing the Top Turkish Brands into the global platforms. Our first store is to be opened by 2018 in LONDON
Following up our first store in London, we have 5 other locations for Global Club stores on our road map including New York, Dubai, Paris, Hong Kong and Moscow.
This short term retail concept, for every brand rotating in our club which is a permanent and dedicated store comes with on site facilities and complete solutions, is more than a shop, A GLOBAL WINDOW which will transform your brand and help them enter the global market.
We are a unique model because we are neither a pop-up store nor a multi- brand. We are an exclusive club for the top quality Turkish brands joining us and rotating every 2 weeks in line with their needs and most suitable term for our exclusive brand suitable term for the brand.
We have a large network providing exclusive BRANDING, MARKETING and PR works as well as complete solutions and services packaged for our brands represented at GLOBAL CLUB. We provide everything A to Z that a brand could ever need to expand overseas, from designers to sales persons at the store... We put you up on the news and ads in the top British Media... At our VIP CLUB, we work durıng the whole year to sell your brand and products at giant multibrand stores. Global Club for Turkish Brands is a partnership between GRED Global and the BrandAge UK.
The Co-founders of Global Club has a magic power as they are mixing the years of experience working with the giants in Turkey as well as their projects abroad both in retail & property as well as the PR & Marketing & Communication.
Ismail is the no.1 guy in Turkey when it comes to Media, Communication and PR, Meltem is the genius lady of property.
That magic partnership is the need of every brand (retailer) in Turkey look but cant find to expand their brand abroad and how the Global Club launched in London, August 2017 and now soon launching its first store.
Ismail has been previously (2003 - 2013) holding positions as CCO & CMO at Turk Telecom, CCO at Calik Holding and as CCO at Erdemir Group since 2013.
He is the chairman at Native Digital Agency (Clients including Turkish Airlines, Halkbank, Turksat) and the board member of Skala Media Solutions as well as The Brandage Magazine.
Ismail has a bache- lors degree in Radio, Cinema and TV and studied Marketing Communication at Roo- sevelt University, Chicago, Illinois, ABD.
Meltem is an entrepreneurial real estate investment and development executive with over 17 years of experience, previously worked (2001-2008) for Arthur&Miller and started up GRED (Global Real Estate Development) in Istanbul, 2008, and then extended the business and carried its activities into a global platform, London, in 2015 as GRED GLOBAL.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in City and Urban Planning and a Master’s degree in Real Estate Development from ITU (Istanbul Technical University) has also studied Sustainability at NYU (New York University) USA and a full member of ULI (Urban Land Institute) UK and a full member of ULI UK, Property Ombdusman & Trading Standards (UK) as GRED Global.
Having worked closely with many Turkish Brands serving their commercial & retail needs abroad, witnessing very closely their success or failure stories, they have a deep understanding of Turkish Retail Brands and their needs where how actually seeded the core business model and unique property model of the - GLOBAL CLUB.