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5.6.3. Completed activities 2007 until interim report
� A. Status Quo research, Basic research
The main competitors of Greece, in the textile sector, are the countries of East Europe,
Turkey, India, China and Pakistan. Those countries are characterized of the low labor
cost, with the result of low production cost comparing to Greece. Nevertheless, there are
no tendencies for translocation of the companies abroad, due to the nature of the sector
and its dependency on technology for the production process. The sector presents
liveliness, which is expressed with the realization of cooperation’s among the companies
and the exit of the companies from the market. In order, the Greek companies to sustain
their competitiveness and confront with the existing crisis in the market, they emphasize
on technology investments. Almost the total of Greek companies materializes significant
investments on renewal and modernization of production process. Additionally, many
companies emphasize on the new technics application targeting to cost reduction and
quality improvement.
Nevertheless, according to the available data, the local textile market has declining
tendencies and will continue to decline, as a result of the increasing competitiveness and
the reduction of the local production. The mean downfall tendency is forecasted to be in
order of 3% (in quantity).
The main production of textiles takes place in Northern Greece, in a percentage of about
79%. In particular, the main concentration of companies exists in the Prefectures of
Thessalonica, Kilkis, Pieria, which cover the 80% of the North Greece market and the
64% of the total Greek market. The rest of the companies activated are in the
prefectures of Attica and Viotia.
� B. Identification and data base
A database including the contact information was prepared by SPEED’s project team,
which in included in the Annex 2 of the report. Due to the great number of companies
activated on the sector and the existence of various associations of the sector, the
database has included many of the active companies but not all of them. We tried to
contact the various association of the sector in order to help us in the completion of the
database but the responses were very few. The database includes details about contact
information and activities-products manufactured.
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