After discussing the information and documents obtained, and observations made as a result of the preliminary inquiry conducted about the allegation that Adoçim Çimento Beton Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ, Akçansa Çimento Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ (AKÇANSA), Aşkale Çimento Sanayii Türk AŞ, Kavçim Çimento Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ (KAVÇİM), Oyak Çimento Fabrikaları AŞ and Votorantim Çimento Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ, which operate in the production and sale of cement in Ordu and neighboring provinces, violated article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition (the Act no 4054), in the meeting on 12.06.2025, the Competition Board considered that the findings were significant and sufficient, and took the decision numbered 25-22/526-M to open an investigation about AKÇANSA and KAVÇİM.

The investigation examines the claims that AKÇANSA, by means of imposing restrictions about territories/customers and resale price maintenance; KAVÇİM, by means of resale price maintenance and participating in the cartel formed by its dealers, violated article 4 of the Act no 4054.

In addition, in the meeting of the Competition Board dated 14.08.2025, the decision numbered 25-31/722-M was taken that

• Acar Taahhüt İşleri İnşaat Nakliyat Turizm San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.,
• Cesurlar Grup Yapı Kimyasalları San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. and
• Doyaroğlu Mühendislik İnşaat Nakliyat San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.,

which are KAVÇİM’s dealers, shall be added to the said ongoing investigation as parties with the allegations that they have made an agreement on price fixing, labor wage fixing and allocation of territories/customers.

*Investigation decisions taken by the Competition Board are announced to the public after the decision is notified to the undertakings or associations of undertakings about which an investigation has been opened. Those announcements are made within the framework of informing the public about the decisions of the Competition Board and cannot be interpreted to mean that the undertakings or associations of undertakings under investigation violated the Act no 4054, or they are or will be subject to penal sanctions under the Act.