The Association of Bayrampaşa Textile and Industry Businessmen (BATIAD) has maintained its works to make Bayrampaşa a textile and fashion center. BATIAD who offer employment for ten thousands, targets to increase the brand value of Bayrampaşa textile market. In previous years, BATIAD who entered Guinness World Records, will provide motion for Bayrampaşa with the Project carrying out with Hakan Akkaya who is the leading fashion designers of Turkey.
The President of BATIAD, Aydın Erten who made special explanations for our Publication Group on the project “Hakan Akkaya is designing and Bayrampaşa Textile Businessmen are manufacturing” stated that they started out with the conscious of settling innovation and kept together with Hakan Akkaya for that special project by combining today’s fashion lines with production. Erten who said as BATIAD they had the aim of contributing innovation to the sector constantly, also stated “The days which textile manufacturers earn money by only making their core business got behind. In the cruel competition environment, we observe the successful partner firms which are open to innovation, customer- focused and different from their opponents. We, therefore signed a cooperation with Hakan Akkaya who is one of the leading fashion designers of Turkey. With this cooperation, we have targeted to provide our businessmen to show required importance for design and produce high value- added products “.
Bayrampaşa; knitwear center of Bayrampaşa
Erten who said they moved to increase, introduce and provide for representation of Turkish textile particularly Bayrampaşa textile market as BATIAD, stated that they got ready to contribute for design identities and beef up the creativity of the member firms which did not compensate from the quality production, he also added “While we are introducing Bayrampaşa textile market in our project, at the same time we are trying not to leave out our social responsibility duty. For example; we send 10 thousands piece of wearing products for homeless children in our organization last year. And for our organization of this year, we have started a work for our Syrian siblings”.
Erten stating that Bayrampaşa ranked among the world’s biggest textile and knitwear manufacturers with the capacity and the production it had, also added “More than half of about 3 thousands firms in Bayrampaşa make knitwear production. With this feature of Bayrampaşa, although Bayrampaşa is called as the center of knitwear of Turkey, any branches of textile products are carried out there. We are the indispensable of the sector”.
“Our target is 6 billion dollars ”
Erten who mentioned the negativeness occurred especially in the countries which carried out export affected Bayrampaşa as well as all marketplaces, added “We believe in solving these negativeness. We, as being the manufacturers, have to be steady. Textile and ready wear firms which carry on business in Bayrampaşa region make export over 2, 5 billion dollars. As Bayrampaşa businessmen, we target to raise this number to 6 billion in the next years. This 6 billion export target of Bayrampaşa businessmen shows parallelism with 2023 textile and ready wear targets with 80 billion dollars. Sector will catch these targets by focusing on innovation, design and especially product and fashion. Main advantages of textile and ready wear sector in Turkey are quick delivery, closeness to target markets, technical, social and management knowledge, experience and design capacity. Big firms at ready wear sector have started to concentrate on going retail in both home market and foreign markets in recent years. Turkish ready wear sector which has a flexible production structure, reached the position of producing trends which has high value- added by settling changing fashion trends. In the world, especially in developed countries, as a result of the progressions at environment, quality and health fields, carrying out various arrangements and applications on these subjects are common knowledge.
Everyone knows the position of ready wear in Turkish export. Sector which became the locomotive of export for long years, gains dynamism for economy with the employment it has provided from past to present. The success of sector lies behind the synergy which are created by target- focused entrepreneurs, businessmen and qualified work force. We estimate there are more than five thousands knitwear machines in Bayrampaşa. More than half of the firms which carry out business in Bayrampaşa, make knitwear production. There are 2,500 registered textile firms in Bayrampaşa and one thousand make knitwear production. In Bayrampaşa, 90 thousand pieces of knitwear are being produced per day and this number equals to 2 billion knitwear products per month. Half of the knitwear products are exported directly or indirectly. When they sell directly in their stores become more profitable at knitwear export. The members of BATIAD export their products to French, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Hungary, Albania, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco. Apart from these, among the target markets of Bayrampaşa who makes export up to 60 countries are the Far East, China, Latin America and Denmark “.
One of the leading fashion designer of Turkey, Hakan Akkaya blaze a trail with BATIAD. Hakan Akkaya and Bayrampaşa textile businessmen who are getting ready to make real “Hakan Akkaya is designing and Bayrampaşa Textile Businessmen are manufacturing” project said in their explanation “With the opinion of keeping step of change and innovation within the project, clothes which are designed with our modern- day lines will be produced”.
