Pilsan Toy

Our story started in the 1940s. It was the times when it was trendy to listen to gramophone records, to follow the news from the agency and to go to Europe for education.Despite the challenging conditions of the period, our founder Yakup Çetinalp loved toys so much that he changed his sector and embarked on the world of toys. Fortunately, he did so. Let’s see how things proceeded afterwar.When Yakup Çetinalp started to manufacture tin soldiers, machines making manual printing were in use. His total manufacturing area was limited to only 40m² and the toys sector in Turkey was almost inexistent. His son Hasan Faruk Çetinalp joined his father when he was only six and together they traveled around Anatolia and sold those tin soldiers manufactured in that small atelier. Besides, marketing techniques had not been invented yet and the agencies to promote them were to be found after decades.