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Timeless<br />
faion<br />
it Ba<br />
Consider with the “Buka’s point of view”<br />
your furniture which forms the skeleton of the<br />
house and which has also a long life. Buka<br />
offers the possibility of renewing the appearance<br />
of the spaces with replaceable slipcovers and<br />
makes the fashion accessible with minimum effort.<br />
The founder of Buka Sofa, Mr Suat Erdoğan who started his<br />
working life in 1990 and continued his professional life in<br />
various places until 2001, then has contacted the Swedish<br />
furniture giant and established Ongan Tekstil. Erdoğan who<br />
has indicated that they have started out with 14 machines<br />
and 25 people only, in a short period of time as 5-6 years,<br />
said they have taken part among the top 500 export<br />
companies in Turkey. Erdoğan who also indicated that<br />
currently they have a team of 1000 people including 550<br />
people in his factory in Moldova and 450 people in Ongan<br />
Textile, said that this large team exports to the world<br />
furniture giant.<br />
Erdoğan who expressed that they have discovered the<br />
idea of replaceable slipcover in 2011, said they decided to<br />
implement this idea in 2013 at all. Erdoğan, who explained<br />
that they provide the opportunity to follow the fashion<br />
more closely with the replaceable slipcovers that renew the<br />
home decoration in the furniture that has a long-lasting<br />
use, stated that they had created a new team and prepared<br />
the collection and thus the brand of Buka was born in 2014<br />
accordingly.<br />
We talked about the timelessness of fashion and their new<br />
projects with the founder of Buka, Suat Erdoğan, who gave<br />
an innovative perspective to the furniture industry.<br />
How was the year 2018? What are your 2019 goals along<br />
with this direction?<br />
Our target in 2018 was growing in the domestic market,<br />
but the crisis in the construction sector led us to export.<br />
In the Netherlands and Switzerland, we have two potential<br />
customers, where we are now in the order phase. We have<br />
also a big client in Ghana. Apart from that, there is a very<br />
big project in Togo. Our negotiations on this continue at<br />
the moment. Our goal for 2019 is to continue our growth<br />
in the foreign market. According to the economic situation<br />
in the domestic market, we are aiming for a growth in our<br />
Istanbul-based stores.<br />
What<br />
is the<br />
number of<br />
stores you<br />
have abroad?<br />
What kind of<br />
growth do you<br />
foresee at this<br />
point?<br />
Our first goal is now<br />
10 million euros. Abroad<br />
purchases are corner<br />
and project based. Abroad,<br />
the system usually works as<br />
follows; There are wholesalers,<br />
they like some of your certain<br />
products. After they like, they start<br />
to buy 1 or 2 containers per month.<br />
We plan to develop in about 6-7<br />
different locations, especially in Europe,<br />
the Middle East and Africa. In the next step,<br />
we are planning to enter the Russian market<br />
with Mebel Moscow Fair. It is very attractive for<br />
us that there is a great potential in the market<br />
where they prefer quality products.<br />
Quality is the most important thing that customers<br />
take care in Bahrain. The most important reason for<br />
us to provide our sustainability in this market is that<br />
we offer quality products. Our high quality products are<br />
being sold with an affordable prices. We are not increasing<br />
the prices because our aim is to get good orders by bringing<br />
quality and right price together.<br />
82 DECOR • March - April 2019
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