Why Bee&You?
- • Total experience of our founders about bees and bee products are more than 45 years. We are the experts in the field, especially about determination of quality and authenticity of bee products.
- • We develop all formulations in our R&D Center with contributions of pharmacologists, pharmacists, nutritionists, and dermatologists.
- • Our propolis extraction technology is patented worldwide, and we guarantee to provide the highest quality propolis extract with clinically proven health benefits.
- • We produce all our bee products with the help of our 5000 contracted beekeepers who take care of 550,000 beehives. We implement sustainable contracted beekeeping model as a perfect example of Fair Trade. That is how we can guarantee the best quality bee products with %100 traceability from our hives to your table.
- • We produce all our products at our facilities, which is about 10,500 m2, being one of the largest value-added bee products center worldwide.
- • Our facilities and products are certified against international standards both for food, supplements and cosmetics which are GMP, BRC, IFS, SEDEX, ISO 9000, ISO 22000, ISO 14001, Kosher, Cosmos and Organic.
- • We have been granted with 70 awards in the last 10 years for innovation, product quality, woman entrepreneurship and sustainability projects.
- • We aim to increase the bee population in the world: %1 of all the income gained from sales of each Bee&You product goes back to our beekeepers as new beehives so that they can look after more bees!
KAGİDER-Garanti- EconomistTurkey's Woman Entrepreneur 2016
With the cooperation of KAGİDER,
Garanti Bank, and Economist Magazine, BEE&YOU was awarded the "Most
Promising Woman Entrepreneur of Turkey" category award in the 2016
Turkey's Woman Entrepreneur Competition. This award recognizes Dr. Aslı Samancı,
one of the co-founders of BEE&YOU. Dr. Aslı Samancı is a Food Engineer and
Biologist. She cofounded BEE&YOU, Turkey's first commercial producer of
pure Anatolian propolis. After graduating from Istanbul Technical University's
Food Engineering Department in 1996, she worked for 18 years in the bee
products industry. During this time, she also completed her master's degree at
ITU. She led numerous national and international projects focused on products
like honey, royal jelly, and propolis. Determined to start her own company
based on this experience, Dr. Aslı cofounded BEE&YOU with her husband,
Agricultural Engineer Mr. Taylan Samancı, and Professor Dr. Dilek Boyacıoğlu at
Istanbul Technical University ARI Technopark in 2013. Using the
"Contracted Beekeeping" model, BEE&YOU sources honey, royal
jelly, and propolis from 550,000 beehives. Thanks to Dr. Aslı's expertise in
developing processes to make propolis suitable for human consumption,
BEE&YOU provides natural and healthy products to consumers in various
innovative formulations.