Aynur Boldaz-Özdemir is a German entrepreneur of Turkish parentage. She founded Forever Clean in Berlin in the year 2000.
In 2004 she transformed her business into a special category of company designed to help women prosper the workplace in Germany, and she began to concentrate on recruiting women from migrant communities and people with disabilities.
In October 2009 the business stepped onto the international stage with the opening of its first branch in Turkey. Forever Clean’s Turkish subsidiary, with main office in Istanbul, now employs almost 300 people. And in Turkey too, the company has made a strategic decision to integrate people of disability into the staff.
Aynur Boldaz-Özdemir’s many honorary positions bear witness to her entrepreneurial and social commitments. Among her other roles, she is a member of the Plenary Committee of the Berlin Chamber of Crafts and deputy chairperson of the Junior Chamber of Crafts, serves on the tariff committee of the Guild of Cleaners, on the Berlin Regional Government’s advisory council for medium-sized enterprises and is a member of the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Integrationsfirmen e.V., a German association of with 600 member firms providing employment to people of disability.
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