Shirt Exports from Turkish Company to 37 countries
A Turkish firm based in the Central Anatolian province of Denizli is exporting shirts to 37 countries under the brand name “Jacquard.” Entering the sector in 1943 with a loom in hand, Tan Tekstil Chairman Ibrahim Tan now owns a 45,000 square meter facility in the Denizli industrial zone.
Tan Tekstil Chairman İbrahim Tan entered the sector in 1943 with a loom in hand and now owns a 45,000 square meter facility in Denizli’s industrial zone.
He is administering one of Turkey’s most modern fabric coloring and finishing facilities, with eight tons of yarn coloring, 12 tons of knitted fabric and terrycloth coloring and 375 employees.
Speaking to Anatolia news agency, Tan said they have caught a great impetus in the foreign markets with their brand Jacquard, which they are selling abroad through agencies.
Tan said the fundamental reason behind Jacquard’s success was high quality cotton brought from Egypt.
“We import our entire yarn stock from Egypt, because nobody else produces the kind of fine yarn we use for making our shirt fabric. This yarn can only be made out of a certain type of cotton that grows on river banks; therefore we import it from Egypt. When we use that cotton and yarn for producing our fabric we can enhance our fabric’s quality as well as our coloring quality. We cannot risk using the yarn produced in Turkey. We sometimes use cotton polyester mixtures, or a cotton linen mixture, or 100 percent linen fabric. Because our looms are of a very specific kind we can even do the heaviest work with highest quality.”
Cotton fields became orchards
Tan told the news agency that they had great troubles due to cotton prices skyrocketing in the last quarter of 2010. “We know that this increase not only occurred in Turkey but was global. However, when the yarn prices surged, the particular yarn we are using increased doubly, which was a pressure on our business capital and we had to provide our businesses with some amount of extra capital. I think the cotton prices will continue to increase.”
He also said it was a duty on the part of Turkish agricultural workers to contribute to increasing agricultural production and noted that cotton cultivation was falling and they had to import their cotton from Greece, the U.S. and Egypt.
Tan said Turkey had enough agricultural areas to cultivate the amount of cotton required by the domestic industry, but due to poor agriculture policies some of these areas were converted to pomegranate or apple orchards. “This is the reason behind our annual cotton yield. But, as far as I have analyzed so far, I predict an increase in cotton cultivation this year.”
Recalling that the sector complained about low foreign exchange levels in 2008 and 2009, Tan said that in the last quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011 the foreign exchange prices were good. “We experience no problems in exports with these foreign exchange levels.
Recalling the long-debated tax regulation announced by the authorities a few months ago concerning an extra 30 percent tax on imported fabric and 40 percent tax on imported apparel, Tan said it was a natural reflex targeting the protection of domestic producers.
“It is common sense to put a 30 percent tax on imported fabric, which means collecting a tax that amounts to 30 percent of the unit price over every meter of imported material. I consider this tax regulation necessary for the protection of local manufacturers.”
Turkish firm exports shirts to 37 countries
Thursday, March 17, 2011
DENİZLİ – HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
