International Home Textile Magazine – April’17

size of the market is very close to TL 1 billion and
the growth rate is 7%. 10 thousand mattresses of
Turkey’s total 20 thousand daily are produced in
Kayseri which is followed by Istanbul and Izmir.
There are more than 400 manufacturers in Kayseri.
The production capacity of these firms approaches
to 2.7 million. Kayseri holds the half of the total
production with 2.5 million mattresses. The share
of the sector in the foreign market is over 100 million
dollars. Kayseri performs more than half of the
total export value. The mattresses, which are produced
in Kayseri, are exported mainly to France,
Germany and The Netherlands and other European
countries and the different countries of the Middle
East.
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