| 1901: Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was built under the name of Canik Chamber of Commerce and Industry as one of the old name of Samsun by Mutasarrıf Hamdi Bey. |
| 1905: The 2 storey building at İskele Street 13/15 was bought and the second floor was used as Chamber and Commerce and Industry. |
| 1931: The Commodity and Product Exchange was established at first floor of the building. |
| 1936: The service period of Mr. Nemli Zade Hamdi and Mr. Yelkenci Zade Şükrü who was in charge as the chairman of the chamber was undefined. Mr. Şahinzade Nuri took the office in 21.01.1936 and continued his service until 23.12.1943. |
| 1943: This year after the earthquake,the chairman of the chamber, Mr Süleyman Balkan bought a 3 storey wooden building which was operated as Karadeniz Hotel and used it as the new service building of the Chamber. |
| 1950: The Law of “Chambers of Commerce and Industry”, “Chambers of Commerce” “Chamber of Industry”, Chambers of Shipping”, “Commodity Exchanges” and “ The Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Comodity Exchange of Turkey” has been enacted. |
| 1970: The 8.5 storey of our service and office building has been build. |
| 1981: The first enterprising institutions was created in 2.11.1981, under the Leadership of Samsun Governor, in cooperations with Samsun Special Provincial Administration, Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Samsun Municipality. |
| 1993: Kavak Organized Industrial Zone was established. |
| 1994: German-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry started their activity in 1994. The institutions is establised under the Law of Chambers and Commodity Exchange in Turkey, and until now it is the only chamber that has the characteristic of being two-sided chamber. |
| 1996: Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry primary school began its educational activities. |
| 1996: Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry started to launch its website with the x25 data line that is set up to the system. |
| 1997: Samsun EU Information Bureau was established to provide information needed by the people of Samsun and the region in the issues of The European Union policies, enlargement process and the EU-Turkey relations. |
| 1998-1999: Ourfirst Overseas Technical Study Tour was held (TUNUS). |
| 1999: “Haber Gazetesi”, The media organ of Samsun Chamber Of Commerce and Industry started to broadcast. |
| 2001: Institute of Economics was established for arranging periodic course programs in the area of foreign trade, export-import, marketing, business management, insurance, commercial English. |
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2003: Samsun European Information Center was established within Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry to provide informations, assistans, consulting and documentation services for Samsun’s enterpreneur.
Samsun EU Information Centre is the first project that received a grant from the European Union. |
| 2004: Our chamber was certified with quality management system of TS-EN-ISO 9001: 2008 standards within the scope of TSE Quality System Certificate and its Annex, dated 03.12.2004, and numbered KY-3443/04 |
| 2004: Samsun Service Unit of Turkish Subcontracting Exchange began its operations. |
| 2004: Law of Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges & Chambers and Commodity Exchange has been accepted. |
2005: Technology Development Center (TDC-TEKMER) was established to support R & D activities of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, to form knowledge-based and technology-based small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises and other similar goal,
with the aim of determining the upcoming procedures of cooperation. |
| 2005: "Samsun Business Directory 2005" was prepared to introduce the members of our Chamber, give easy access to our members of entrepreneurs in our country and in the World, so they could open up to the World. The directory was distributed to our province, domestically inside our country and to commercial attache of our country abroad. |
2006: Our Chamber has been accredited within the scope of Chamber Accreditation Project, after the evaluation of the Accreditation Council on 12.Mayıs.2006.
2007: Samsun Export Days was held in order to contribute to Samsun’s Export, bringing together Samsun’s manufacturers and exporters companies with foreign importers. |
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| 2007: Women Enterpreneur Committe began their active duty. |
| 2009: Samsun Food Organized İndustrial Zone was established. |
| 2009: Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry Education Foundation was established. |
| 2009: A protocol was signed for the establishment of Samsun Technopark Inc. aimed to ensure the lowest cost with the highest efficiency production and thereby providing greater competition and speeding up the R & D activities in order to increase their innovation efforts. |
| 2009: The works has begun for the establishment of Samsun Exhibition and Convention Centre which would be one of the important pillars of national and international trade. |
2009: Young Enterpreneur Committe began their active duties.
2009: “Açılım” magazine started to publish. |
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| 2012: Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry was certified with “A Quality Service Certificate” by TOBB. |
List of President of Executive Board of Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry; after Mr. Süleyman Balkan’s Office; from 1948 until today;
Unfortunately we couldnt reach the informations about the person who performed duty as president of the Assembly before the year 1936.