CNBC Europe (referred to on air simply as CNBC) is a business and financial news television channel which airs across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The station is based in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed10 Fleet Place building with Dow Jones & Company. Along with CNBC Asia, the channel is operated by the Singapore-headquartered CNBC subsidiary company CNBC International, which is in turn wholly owned by NBCUniversal.
As the most viewed pan-European financial TV channel according to the 2010 EMS survey, the broadcaster reaches over 100 million households across the continent. CNBC Europe produces or co-produces 7 hours of live programming each weekday, along with reports and content for its global sister stations and the outlets of NBC News.
CNBC Europe began broadcasts in March 1996, as a wholly owned subsidiary of NBC. On 9 December 1997, the channel announced that it would merge with the Dow Jones news channel in Europe, European Business News. The merger took place in February 1998, upon which the channel then became known officially as "CNBC Europe - A Service of NBC and Dow Jones".
Haluk Dinçer (born 1962) is the President of the Retail and Insurance Group of Sabancı Holding, one of the two largest industrial and financial conglomerates of Turkey.
Haluk Dinçer was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1962. Having attended the prestigious Saint-Joseph Private French High School (Istanbul), he received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 and an M.B.A. in 1988, both from the University of Michigan.
Haluk Dinçer began his career in the U.S. as a project engineer at General Motors Technical Center in 1985.
Dinçer joined Sabanci Holding in 1995, serving as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of the automotive manufacturer TemSA for six years. He was appointed Vice President of the Food and Retail Group in 2001, and Food Group President in 2002.
Dinçer has held the position of the President of the Retail Group since 2004. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the group’s retail companies mass-merchant chain CarrefourSA, discount food retailer DiaSA, and electronics superstore TeknoSA.
Dr. Engineer Mustafa Sani Şener (born February 14, 1955) is a Turkish construction magnate. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of TAV Airports Holding and TAV Construction.
Sani Şener was born in Trabzon, Turkey, as the third and last child of prominent Turkish bureaucrat and politician Ahmet Şener (1921–1991) and Feride Şener (née Külür). Sani has one older brother, Sadri Şener and an older sister, Prof. Dr Sezer Şener Komsuoğlu.
After completing his mechanical engineering degree in 1977 at the Black Sea Technical University, he attended graduate school of engineering at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. He received his doctorate degree from the Black Sea Technical University in acknowledgement of his distinguished contribution in the infrastructure development projects of Turkey.
Sani Şener managed and led many development projects ranging from dam construction to housing complexes; from hospitals, universities, airports, highways, trade centers, tunnels to power plants in Turkey and abroad since 1979.