International Home Textile Magazine April 2019

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Germany, Poland, England, and Greece. This year a high
number of buyers from the USA, Canada, China, India, Saudi
Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Morocco, Israel,
Iran and the Turkic Republics are also expected. Moreover,
with the hosted buyer programs organized with the support
of the Ministry of Trade, around 300 buyers from various
provinces of Turkey will join professional buyers from more
than 40 countries flocking the exhibition. The business volume
is expected to reach a record high level with B2B and
networking meetings.
EVTEKS will significantly contribute to the industry’s 5 billion
US dollars 2023 targets Turkey is the fourth largest exporter
country in the world and EVTEKS is the largest trade
fair of the Turkish home textiles which makes a significant
contribution to the sector’s achievement of 2023 export
target of 5 billion dollars. The home textile industry closed
2016 with 2,7 billion dollars of export volume, 2017 with
2,8 billion dollars and saw a 10 percent increase in 2018
closing at 3,3 billion dollars. The industry aims to exceed
3,5 billion dollars in 2019 to once again reach its export targets
with the significant contribution of EVTEKS. Germany,
USA, Russia, Italy, UK, France, Holland, Poland, Iran, and
Romania are the top 10 export destinations of the industry.
April 2019