are Arı-Turyağ, Limak-Set Çimento, BEST, Mar-Tük, İşbir, Kula, Tellioğlu, Bu Piliç and Yarış Kabin which are among the first thousand factories in Turkey as of 2008. Balıkesir city is also important for stock breeding. Surrounding the city, are numerous dairies. The city is also an agricultural centre. Wheat, sunflowers, sugar beets, and other vegetables in a front tomato and bean plantations have dense products. Traditional crops are melon and grapes. Balıkesir with its districts is the 12th largest economy in the Turkish economy. Also, it is called the Anatolian Tigers. Agriculture Other main exports are olive-based products. It is also a destination for both domestic and foreign tourists, who use it as a base to explore the near countryside, especially nearby Mount Ida (Kaz Dağı). Mining The city is well known with borax deposit. The largest global borax deposits known, many still untapped, are in Central and Western Turkey, including the provinces of Eskişehir, Kütahya and Balıkesir. Besides, Turkey and the United States are the largest producers of boron products. Turkey produces about half of the global yearly demand with the known deposits which possesses 72% of the world. Sports Many sportspeople were born in Balıkesir. Some of them are; Cengiz Ünder - Football player Caner Erkin - Football player Egemen Korkmaz – Football player İlhan Eker – Football player Olcan Adın – Football player Oğuz Savaş – Basketball player Şafak Edge – Basketball player Tülin Altıntaş – Volleyball player Most known sports club in Balıkesir is Balıkesirspor which is established in 1966. Balıkesirspor is the football team played in the Süper Lig after achieving promotion having finished as runners-up of the TFF First League in 2013–14. The team's previous promotion was 40 years before that. Their stadium, the all-seater Balıkesir Atatürk Stadium, has a capacity of 13,732. Culture Many theatre players, actor, actress, singer and painter were born in Balıkesir. Most known are; Fikret Hakan – Actor Şevket Altuğ - Actor Necdet Tosun - Actor Erdal Tosun - Actor Reha Yurdakul - Actor Tamer Yigit - Actor İlker Ayrık - Actor Barış Falay - Actor Hande Erçel - Actress and model Zerrin Tekindor - Actress and artist Tuğçe Kazaz - Actress and model Orhan İslimyeli - Cartoonist Memorial days The major memorial days of Balıkesir are Hıdrellez, The Liberation Day and also The Remembrance Day of Local Combat. Hıdrellez is by tradition celebrated in the first week of May