1932
Operations regarding Textile sector had been started by Ali Vehbi Türkün in 1932.
1947
Administration of corporations under the name of Türkün Collective Companies was taken over by second generation in 1947, and the jacquard drapery & upholstery production kept going using artificial silk and real silk
1948
The production activities those were performed integrated by Türkün and Beylik families had taken place in Yeşil, Umurbey and Namazgah districts of Bursa
1976
Erol Türkün of third generation, who had completed Textile Engineering in Germany in 1976, returned back to the country and began Textile production by founding “Erol Türkün Textile” company in Duaçınarı district with 8 looms.
1977
This is the only Textile firm that maintains the name of Türkün. By aiming a different production concept and market, Erol Türkün initiates the production of net type drapery, which wasn’t manufactured in our country in those years but predicted to have a good market later.
1981
Erol Türkün bought his first land of 5.500 m2 in Bursa Organized Industrial Zone, where current companies appears on.
1983
Through establishment founded on the bought land “Erol Türkün Textile” factory in Duaçınarı had been moved and continued its activities.
1984
Erol Türkün Textile received its first incentive certificate in 1983 and had imported Italian somet weaving machines in the following year. Along with the imported machines, there had been a great demand on both quality and capacity.
1989
“Vanelli Foreign Trade” firm, which has an important role on becoming a world brand, was founded in 1989 and performed its first exportation in early 1990,Germany.
1990
Attended to the biggest home textile fair in world, Heimtextil. Along with the fair, Vanelli, brand began to claim their place in world market through different product groups.
Important investments upon weaving looms are made through achieved exportations. And together with these investments, twister and yarn dyeing machine was brought from Italy and yarn dye production have begun in Erol Türkün Textile Factory in order to correctly reflect the possessed quality understanding in both domestic and foreign market, and to remove the shade disparities in yarns.
1991
Second factory named “Türkün Textile” was founded upon the other bought land of 10.000 m2 in Bursa Organized Industrial Zone in 1991 and began its activities on fabric dye and bare finish.
1993
Upon the other land of 10.000 m2 in Bursa Organized Industrial Zone, net curtain weaving “Mega Textile” commenced business with polyester spinning, twisting and 50 weaving looms.
1994
“Türkün Textile” began print production in 1994 through performed printing unit investments whilst maintaining its fabric dye and bare finish activities.
1995
In order to present high quality products those are manufactured in “Mega Textile” to foreign market, “Dina Textile” founded and commenced business in 1995.
1997
Due to high and unexpected interest in Heimtextil 1996 on home textile confection products which are prepared through the vision of Erol Türkün’s wife Tülin Türkün, decision of crossing into home textile confection production was made and “Vanelli Confection” began its activities on subject in the same year.
2004
Türkün Holding Inc. was founded.
2006
All weaving machines in “Erol Türkün Textile” were moved to “Mega Textile”, thus the production continued under a single roof.
2007
To be able to stay with the technology and get better performance we started to use SAP and Porini System
2008
Türkün Holding administration building was established upon the land beside of “Mega Textile”.
2009
– With the new factory building, our production machinery is updated. – We got the price for most innovative Trevira CS product by Trevira CS
2010
New factory building have been established upon our land of 10.000 m2 in Organized Industrial Zone.
2012
To eliminate waste and empowering workers, reduce inventory and improve productivity, we started with Lean Manufacturing. We upgrade our certificate ISO 9001.
Bursa Uludağ Textile Exporters’ Association (UTIB) and Uludağ Textile and Apparel Exports’ awarded VANELLİ with GOLDEN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD in the Textile Sector and the other is the BRONZE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD in the Apparel Sector.
2013
2011-12-13 in these years we are nominated with ”GOLD MEMBER” by Trevira CS. we are the only Turkish supplier who has the price for the most innovative and different trevira CS collection.
o be able to give better hand and touch and different effects to the fabric, we invested on the new machinery
2014
To print our production we add digital printing machinery.
2016
Turkun Academy was founded
2017
Turkun Academy was founded
2019
New Management System
RP Digital Transformation
Turquality Brand Program
2020
Deco Center e Commerce Stores
2021
All companies confederate under Vanelli.
All companies were brought together under the Vanelli roof.
2022
With the transition to the new ERP program, new technological moves were made.
We moved to a new ERP system. Vanelli Textile entered TİM’s list of Turkey’s top 1,000 exporters and received the Leadership award at the BUSİAD Innovation Awards.
2023
We ranked among the top 100 companies in three categories of the OSB Stars survey, received the Business Model award of the Sustainability in Family Businesses Programme and the BOSB Environmentally Friendly Facility award, and renewed our Design Center certificate.
2024
We won first place in BOSİAD’s Environmentally Friendly Industrial Facility competition. Vanelli Oil’s early-harvest extra virgin olive oil won a gold medal.
2025
Rooftop solar panels now cover 21% of our weaving production. Vanelli Olive Oil won silver medals at Anatolian IOOC and EVO IOOC Italy.
2026
We shared our green transformation journey at UN Global Compact Turkey’s sustainability event.