OPET and Cem Yılmaz Together Again After 15 Years!

OPET, which continues to be the most popular brand in the fuel sector with its leadership in customer satisfaction, reunites with Cem Yılmaz, the brand face 15 years ago. OPET General Manager Cüneyt Ağca said: “OPET is a visionary and development oriented brand that always does more. We will announce the difference we have created in our works in a creative and interesting way with our cooperation with a versatile artist like Cem Yılmaz.”

OPET, with over 1600 stations in Turkey, its products and services, its sustainable change in the fuel sector with social responsibility projects and innovations,  is coming once again together with Cem Yılmaz after 15 years. The collaboration between OPET and artist Cem Yılmaz, who signed projects focused on customer satisfaction with the slogan of "OPET Makes Everything Changes", was announced at a press conference held at Rahmi M. Koç Museum. Cem Yılmaz and OPET General Manager Cüneyt Ağca and OPET Marketing Deputy General Manager Murat Zengin attended the meeting held on 11 February 2020.

In his speech at the meeting, OPET General Manager Cüneyt Ağca said that OPET maintains its place at the top of customer satisfaction with its social responsibility projects created by starting from alternative services and social needs it offers to its customers. Ağca said: "Beyond being a fuel distribution brand, we have a permanent place in our customers' lives. Because we listen to our customers, prepare appropriate conditions for their expectations and do what cannot be done in the industry. We work with the goal of protecting and exceeding our current standards with the feedback we receive.” He continued saying "We achieved the highest growth in the fuel distribution market in 2019, we increased our market share to over 19 percent." He stated that in 2020, they targeted OPET to grow by 4 percent and reach a market share of 19.5 percent. 

Ağca said that the cooperation they made with Cem Yılmaz 15 years ago had a major influence in the rise of OPET brand and they signed an advertising campaign that all Turkey have spoken about and added "Cem Yılmaz and our brand have many common points. Cem Yılmaz is also visionary with innovative perspective as our brand and is one of Turkey's most beloved names as a leader of change.  This time, we reconstruct the strong bond we have established with Cem Yılmaz in line with today's expectations and needs. We believe that with this new cooperation, we will sign successful projects in line with our main strategies. ” Ağca said "We are thinking about what we can do differently and more modernly for our country, customers and industry in our operations, we take this question to our focus, and when we look at it, OPET always continues its way as a brand that offers more and makes a difference,". 

Murat Zengin, Executive Vice President of OPET Marketing, gave the following information about the details of the campaign: “OPET makes, everything changes” is the new slogan of our brand… This slogan summarizes our brand very successfully. Since its establishment, OPET has been transforming the fuel sector of our country because OPET is a truly human-oriented and social brand ... We will give all our messages to our consumers through this slogan. As Cüneyt Bey has stated, today, thanks to OPET, we have the toilet standard that makes us all happy. This transformation story contains another transformation story with the Women's Power Project, which has contributed to women's employment in recent years. Indeed, OPET's new launch in marketing, Ultramarkets, is a completely different story of transformation… We have taken our 2005 period, which is one of the most valuable points of our history, which is one of the most valuable points of our country's advertising history, to explain what OPET has changed. The reason we started working with Dear Cem Yilmaz in the second term after 15 years is to carry this transformation story from the past to the future. We will explain how we will maintain our leadership in customer satisfaction in the next 2 years, the only thing that has not changed in the past 15 years, with dear Cem Yilmaz, who is one of the most valuable artists our country has trained. ”

On the other hand, Cem Yilmaz underlined that he had a heart bond with OPET, saying “OPET Makes Everything Changes” and said: “If you are working with a self-confident brand while promoting a product or service, this is a very important comfort and happiness. Those beautiful films we made  in the first years of working with OPET have always been the work of this self-confidence. Working with professionals who add value to the sector that takes its addressee seriously and sets the standard encourages me to do better. OPET is the brand of hard-working people who do not settle for less. It is a pride for me to be together again after 15 years… We are coming to change everything. ”

At the signing ceremony, the film that was shot specially for the press conference with Cem Yılmaz, who will be in the OPET commercials for two years, and also bridges the past and present, was also shown. GITT (Beautiful Human Transport Vehicle) and Mike are exposed in Rahmi Koç Museum were also used in the film which referred to lines such as "I teared up the track...I'll get your keys...I made it talk...".  The press conference ended with the signing of cooperation by OPET General Manager Cüneyt Ağca and Cem Yılmaz.