24 February 2010, Bursa – Turkey’s Yesim Tekstil a leading
manufacturer of knit goods for US and European retailers has won an award for
export performance which is granted to companies that achieve the highest
increase in their exports compared to the previous year. Yesim was awarded the
bronze prize in the country’s Stars of Export ‘Export Incentive Awards’, organized
by the Dünya Gazetesi periodical and sponsored by Akbank with the cooperation
of DHL Turkey.
A production partner of the Nike brand since 2005, Yesim
Tekstil also manufactures for internationally renowned brands such as Gap,
Banana Republic, Old Navy, Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, Esprit, Hugo
Boss, Lands' End, Tchibo and Schlafgut.
The company employs around 3000 people in its garment and
home textiles production facilities and is based in Bursa in northwest Turkey,
one of the most industrialized and culturally charged metropolitan centres in
the country. Yesim Tekstil has a daily production capacity of 55 tons of
knitted products, 70 tons dyed, 100,000 meters of printed fabric, 150,000 garments
and 60,000 home textile products.
As well as being one of the four largest fully integrated
yarn-to-finished-product facilities under one roof in the garment sector
anywhere in the world, the company is also one of Turkey’s largest firms in
terms of creating employment. Apart from its main production facilities in
Turkey, the company has in recent years subcontracted to companies in countries
such as Moldova and Egypt as well as numerous such facilities manufacturing
within Turkey.
At the company’s Yeşim Tekstil Örme knitting division it employs
285 personnel working in a 4000 square meter production area, with a plant of 142
circular knitting machines, 24 flat knit accessory machines, yarn winding
machines and fabric cutting machines.
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