1988 -First store opened in Istanbul

1995 - Organization redesign to focus on design and production

1996 - First store abroad - in Munich

1999 - Started franchise system

2001 - Expanded our design team, increased product selection, started opening large-scale stores, first steps towards being a Fast Fashion brand

2002 - New stores opened in Middle East, Russia and Balkans

2005 - Reached 100 stores in Turkey, 39 stores abroad

2009 - Became 26th in Turkey’s Most Valuable Brands list (2nd fashion brand) (valued by Turkey’s biggest business magazine, Capital)

2010 - Established the Koton Radio that airs live in all Koton stores

2011 - Entered several new categories with the swimwear collection (with Alessandra Ambrosio campaign), Kids collection and Plus Size collection

2012 - Selected “The most admired and preferred women fashion brand” in Shopping Mall Investors’ Association survey Turkey’s leading venture capital company established a partnership with Turkven.

2014 - Selected for the Turkish Superbrands list

2015 - Entered the cosmetics category with Koton Beauty brand with more than 150 products.

Selected “Most Trusted Women Fashion Brand” by Turkish shoppers. Based on the 2015 - BrandSpark Turkish Shopper study. Selected fort he fourth time “The most admired and preferred women fashion brand” in Shopping Mall Investors’ Association survey Koton.com launched online shopping service.

2016 - DesignLab, setting the design, color, pattern, fabric and trends of the season in the leadership of Isham Sardouk, has been launched.

Koton.com reached more than 40 million sessions and 20 million unique users in its first year after opening.

Our ambitious brand categories “Koton Jeans” and “Koton Kids” stores were opened. Koton has opened its first high street store in Romania, increasing its number of stores in this country to 16. First Koton stores in France (Paris), Croatia, Morocco and Germany (Hamburg) were opened.

Comprehensive Business Model was launched and “Koton Handcraft” collection was offered to customers.