PRODUCTION Packaging industry in Turkey is a rapidly developing sector. Rapid urbanization, population growth, increase in living standards, increase in participation of women in business, changes in consumption habits, increase in retail shopping tendency with increase of shopping centers, increase in demand for consumption products and increase in exports are Read more…
PACKAGING INDUSTRY SECTORAL DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION Two basic classification systems are used for all products in packaging industry subject to trade. While the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding Systems, shortly the Harmonized System, is used for for detailed data, the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC Rev.4) is used for aggregated Read more…
TURKISH COMPANIES & INDUSTRIAL SECTORS Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Turkey has competitive companies like Beko and Vestel which have been among the largest manufacturers in Europe. Being the manufacturer of the quarter of tv sets sold across the continent, Vestel has been the largest tv manufacturer in Europe in Read more…
THE ECONOMY OF TURKEY For having some idea on the general view of the economy of Turkey, we can check some of the descriptions made by various organizations. According to the definitions made by IMF, Turkish economy is specified as an emerging market economy. In another definiton stated in CIA Read more…
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WORLD TRADE According to figures released by the World Trade Organization, between 2002 and 2011, global trade grew by 177 percent, from $ 13.2 trillion to $ 36.5 trillion. In the same period, world exports showed a growth potential of 181 percent. The global financial crisis Read more…
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY AND THE STATUS OF TURKISH MANUFACTURING SECTOR The place of manufacturing industry in the economy is the most basic indicator of the development process of a country. The rapidly growing countries are countries with large manufacturing industries. As the countries evolve, the share of the sectors within the Read more…