Hamdi Ulukaya

Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott and Hilton pledged yesterday to hire more than 13,000 refugees, including Ukrainian women who have fled the war with Russia, over the next three years in Europe.

United States based Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya was married with Food Dreams Foundation president Louise Vongerichten, at the Turkish Consulate General in New York with a simple ceremony on Jan. 28

Smiling, with a full head of curly, salt-and-pepper hair, Hamdi Ulukaya has a humble and friendly attitude.

The founder and CEO of Chobani has no regrets about moving his yogurt company to south-central Idaho, a region embroiled in the national debate over refugee resettlement that spread to company boycotts by far-right bloggers and conspiracy theorists.

Hamdi Ulukaya, the Turkey-born founding owner of leading U.S. yogurt maker Chobani, has been facing threats and a smear campaign from the far right for employing migrants, prompting anti-racist activists to launch a counter campaign. 

The 2,000 full-time employees of Chobani were handed an ownership stake in the yogurt company that could make some of them millionaires, as reported by New York Times on April 26.

If you asked who one of the heroes at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos was, I would say Hamdi Ulukaya, who was able to make the yogurt brand "Chobani," which he founded in the U.S. in 2007 and became the fastest growing company in history.

Yoghurt empire founder Hamdi Ulukaya rallied the corporate world to aid refugees on Jan. 19, as the world's rich and powerful gathered in the exclusive Swiss ski resort of Davos to discuss how to resolve some of the world's greatest challenges.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on January 20-23, his office has confirmed, Tanjug reported.

U.S. soda giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are among the companies competing for a minority stake in yogurt maker Chobani, a person familiar with the process said on Oct. 13.