With a long history of textile manufacturing dating back to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey remains an important country in the global textile and apparel industry. In 2022, the country ranked as the fourth largest exporter of textiles worldwide,
. The industry is also still showing signs of growth, with the value of both
exported having more than tripled since 2000. A large proportion of the textile and apparel goods leaving Turkey arrived in locations inside Europe, with Germany, and Spain ranking as the
. In 2021, these two countries together accounted for over 7.5 billion dollars’ worth of exports.
Leading producers
For Turkey’s top players, textile and apparel production has been clearly a profitable business. Among those most successful were Kipas Mensucat Isletmeleri, Gülsan Sentetik Dokuma Sanayi, and Sanko Tekstil Isletmeleri, responsible for
textile manufacturing. These companies made a respective nine billion, eight billion and 7.8 million Turkish lira in production-based sales in 2022. The
leading apparel manufacturers in the country, meanwhile, were Almaxtex Tekstil and Hugo Boss Tekstil Sanayi, generating approximately five billion and 3.7 Turkish lira, respectively, in that same year.
Retail sector
As well as the successful manufacturing and trade industries, Turkey’s retail market for textiles and clothing is also strong. Since 2002, consumer spending on such items has increased considerably, reaching a record value in 2022.
Turkish households spent 12 million Turkish lira per month on clothing in that year, which indicated a 158 percent increase compared to the figures in 2019. Despite the rapid growth of e-commerce in the past few years, the number of physical clothing shops kept rising. Given that, there are
over 58 thousand stores selling clothing in the country, the retail sector was also a key area for employment. As of 2021,
these stores employed 251 thousand people.
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