John Ilhan

Contents
John Ilhan....................................................................................................................................................3
Successfulness.........................................................................................................................................3
Effectiveness............................................................................................................................................3
Contribution to company........................................................................................................................4
References...................................................................................................................................................5
John Ilhan
Raised in Yosgat, Turkey, John Ilhan migrated from Turkey to Australia at age 5 on January 24, 1965 and
later with his father. Ilhan having grown up in the northwest region of Melbourne, in Broadmeadows, a
required to work grade class. Ilhan was registered in Jacana Primary School in his young life. He attended
Broadmeadows High School in his teenage years. During his elementary and secondary education, he
spent varying hours playing volleyball, basketball and cricket clubs, building in his passions in fitness and
natural athletics. Ilhan was at university for one year, and then marketed Ford cars for a limited period.
Briefly after that, he was appointed a sales partner at a Strathfield Car Radios telephone and electricity
retailer. In 1991, his entrepreneurship moves to open a mobile telephony store was driven by that job.
The success of Crazy John's single store Ilhan has gradually became the biggest mobile retailer in
Australia, with nearly 20 physical sites in Melbourne, with many other stores in Perth, Adelaide including
Brisbane. By the way, John's single store has become one of the main markets. Crazy John Ilhan 's story
has been the stuff of corporate myth, from a Broad Meadows battler towards Australia's richest under
40. Ilhan created a national stunning success for Crazy Jean 's chain of mobile phones, and yet
unfortunately died at 42 on a walk this morning left his family in Bayside Melbourne following a heart
attack.

Successfulness
Ilhan started his career started his career Strathfield Car Radios at the beginning of the 1920s and
quickly grew as a small boy to become a leading national distributor. However according Strathfield Car
Radios, he has a clear but powerful organizational ideology, which "gives the company fantastic service
and in exchange it is equal." Ilhan "recognized sincere salesperson, also somebody who had a good
understanding of what consumers needed. He soon discovered that if he had established his own
shopping store, he might give consumers more, "says the Website of Crazy John. The company's way of
doing business managed to bring about the title change briefly after Mobile World was formed in 1991,
with its first shop entrance in northern Melbourne's neighborhood of Brunswick. He understood that
customers were looking for excellent deals as well as service. Mad John's became the first telecom
service to launch $1 to purchase one, to get one free and to sell consumers "cash-back" rewards. He
always had a deep interest in corporate and social accountability throughout his career. Crazy John's has
also been great member of several humanitarian organizations in all of Australia and also in especially of
the Ilhan Food Allergy Foundation, since its inception. He has since been a director of the Public Advisory
Committee of the NAB and a director of the Premier 's Business Advisory Council in Victoria and been
active in many policy discussions fields. He was a statement of the financial position, among other
things, of the Richmond Football Club, the Kids Under Cover as well as the Royal Children's Hospital
Neonatal Unit, the Foundation of Lighthouse, the Shane Warne Foundation as well as St Vincent De Paul.

Effectiveness
Australian Young Rich definition of business Review Weekly of 2003 listed Ilhan as No. 1. He became the
wealthiest Australian individual born under the age of 40, since he had accrued over AUD $200 million
by the age of 38. In his philanthropic work, Ilhan experienced remarkable performance in business
world. He provided a large proportion of his fortune to charities. In 2007, he was known to be one of
Australia's the more generous benefactors until his death from a heart attack. His frequent contributions
were rendered by his establishing Ilhan Food Allergy Foundation, motivated by his daughter's Peanut, a
large variety of charities. Ilhan was appointed one of Australia's fifty potential leaders by May 2006 at
the Potential Summit. The Summit "reconnects members who have the imagination and vision to
undertake innovative and forward-looking initiatives and show their contribution to building a
sustainable future for Australia." The Australian Davos Link Initiative. Prime Minister John Howard is the
trustee of the long-term council meeting. Crazy John's team intends to continue Ilhan 's plans in New
Zealand, Europe and Asia for expansion of the Crazy John's imperial power. Mr. Ilhan launched his
journey with Strathfield Car Radios and had been soon one of its most successful sellers. In 1991, Mobile
world decided to launch his own business and soon thereafter changed the registered trademark to
Crazy John's. Recently he became the 126th richest man in Australia with a fortune estimated to be 310
million dollars. Mr. Ilhan told his parents in the factory that the significance of hard work was instilling in
him. He formed his empire little by little. Nowadays, Crazy John's is Australia's biggest independent
telephone retailer with over 120 retail outlets and over 600 employees in Australia. Telstra conveyed his
condolences to the relatives and friends of Mr Ilhan. "He has become Telstra 's longest partner, so it is
incredibly sad that anyone is dying too soon, specifically someone more like John, who has creates a big
commitment to Australia and this sector," said a spokesperson for Telstra. Mr. Ilhan was a great
proponent of caring and founded the Ilhan food intolerance Foundation in 2006 with his wife because
after couple realized a peanut allergy to their daughter Jaida. The Foundation's mission is to encourage
work on food allergy triggers.

Contribution to company
Over the last decade, the telecommunications sector has expanded exponentially, with Australia
another of the world's top telecommunications tv shareholders. A readily recognized brand, Crazy John's
is Australia's biggest autonomous mobile retailer. Crazy John's values enterprise spirit and invests
heavily in the management and quality control of human resources. Mr. Ilihan was a motivation to
everybody who knew or started working through him, said Crazy John's CEO Brendan Fleiter. "I
developed from zero into Australia's biggest independent internet store," said Mr. Fleiter. Mr. Fleiter
said that Mr. Ilhan has always held an attitude of building a company of hundreds of employees that first
introduced real competitiveness in the mobile industry. "John was also a brilliant thinker and the
distinction was just what he told him he was doing. Mr. Fleiter said: "He loved for his clients and the
staff who served with him. "John's place in history will never be felt in Australia, as his business Crazy
Johns, which continually grows and builds on the legacy of John, offered buyers something new."
References
Dabkowski, S. (2011). John Ilhan: A Crazy Life. Australia: Wiley .

News. (2009). Crazy John's owner John Ilhan dead at 42. Australia : News.com.

reporters, S. (2013). Crazy John Ilhan in his own words. Australia: SMH.