Fashion Statistics Turkey
National data
Population: | 79.4 million |
Labor force: | 29.4 million |
Unemployment rate: | 10.4 % |
GDP per capita (PPS): | 20,500 dollars |
Employment
- Number of employees in the manufacturing of textiles: 450,000
- Number of employees in the manufacturing of clothing: 500,000
- Number of employees in the manufacturing of footwear and leather goods: 65,000
- Number of employees in textile, apparel and footwear manufacture: 1 million
Consumer Expenditure
Annual consumer expenditure of clothing and footwear: | 20 billion dollars |
Fashion companies
Turkey is mostly known as a hub for fashion manufacture. The country has 59,000 companies in textile, footwear and apparel manufacturing, which yearly produce over 65 billion dollars per of garments and fashion goods. Nearly all Turkish manufacturers are small or medium sized entities.
The following table lists the Top 5 Largest Fashion Companies in Turkey. The largest company has several brands, such as Mexx, as its subsidiary. All other entries on this list are textile and apparel manufacturers.
Company name | Market value | Annual revenue | Company type | |
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1 | Eroglu Group | 2.9 billion dollars | 1.9 billion dollars | Private |
2 | Sanko Tekstil İşletmeleri | 472 million dollars | 518 million dollars | Private |
3 | Gülsan Sentetik Dokuma | 323 million dollars | 355 million dollars | Private |
4 | Korteks Mensucat | 222 million dollars | 244 million dollars | Private |
5 | Beyteks Tekstil | 215 million dollars | 236 million dollars | Private |
Main trading partners in textiles and apparel
Textiles and raw materials
Destination | Origin | ||
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Russia | 880 million dollars | China | 1.9 billion dollars |
Italy | 754 million dollars | USA | 994 million dollars |
Germany | 451 million dollars | India | 850 million dollars |
Romania | 366 million dollars | Indonesia | 752 million dollars |
UK | 355 million dollars | Italy | 560 million dollars |
Apparel
Destination | Origin | ||
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Germany | 3.9 billion dollars | China | 906 million dollars |
UK | 2.5 billion dollars | Bangladesh | 772 million dollars |
Spain | 1.6 billion dollars | Italy | 166 million dollars |
France | 1.1 billion dollars | Egypt | 138 million dollars |
Netherlands | 948 million dollars | India | 121 million dollars |
Exports (2014)
Exports of textiles and clothing: 30.4 billion dollars
- T-shirts: 3.73 billion dollars
- Women’s suits, non knit: 2.7 billion dollars
- Men’s suits non knit: 2.2 billion dollars
- Sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts,etc: 2 billion dollars
- Women’s suits: 1.7 billion dollars
Exports of footwear and headwear: 741 million dollars
- Footwear, with leather body: 327 million dollars
- Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 166 million dollars
- Footwear with textile body: 90.5 million dollars
- Parts of footwear: 55.5 million dollars
- Other footwear: 53 million dollars
Imports (2014)
Total imports of clothing, textiles and footwear: 5.5 billion dollars
Imports of footwear and headwear: 1.04 billion dollars
- Footwear, with leather body: 321 million dollars
- Footwear, with textile body: 250 million dollars
- Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 248 million dollars
Imports of footwear and headwear: 919 million dollars
- Footwear, with leather body: 367 million dollars
- Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 228 million dollars
- Footwear with textile body: 162 million dollars
Sources
These statistics pages are a product of FashionUnited Business Intelligence. For more fashion data, company information and statistics, please refer to the FashionUnited Business Intelligence homepage.
Sources: Ministry of Science Industry and Technology, Social Security Institution, Ministry of Economy, Turkish Statistical Institute, ITKIB (The General Secretariat of Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporter Associations).
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General data
Population: | 506.85 million |
GDP per capita (PPS): | 36,486 Dollars |
Labor force: | 247.0 million |
Unemployment rate: | 39.4% |
Fashion market share: | 5 percent |
Regional fashion market size: | 441 billion dollars |
Turnover of the textile and clothing industry: | 191 billion dollars |
Employment in the textiles and clothing industry: | 1.6 million |
Annual investment in the textile and clothing industry: | 5 billion dollars |
Annual investment in clothing: | 1.6 billion dollars |
Annual investment in textiles and man-made fibres: | 3.3 billion dollars |
Fashion companies
Number of companies in the textile and clothing industry: 172,755 Among these companies 119,960 companies can be addressed to as clothing companies, 52,926 are textile companies and the remaining 80 companies work on man-made fibers.
The total turnover of these companies is 191 billion euros. Nearly half of this turnover is related to textile companies, these contribute 92 billion euros. Another 87 billion euros is related to clothing companies and the remaining 9.7 billion euros is related to man-made fibre-making companies.
A couple of European countries, such as Italy, France and Spain are well-known for their renowned fashion conglomerates. The following table shows the Top 10 largest fashion companies in Europe.
Company name | Market value | Annual sales | Country | Company type | |
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1 | Inditex | 104 billion dollars | 24 billion dollars | Spain | Stock listed company |
2 | LVMH, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy | 86 billion dollars | 41.5 billion dollars | France | Stock listed company |
3 | Hennes & Mauritz | 48.5 billion dollars | 26.5 billion dollars | Sweden | Stock listed company |
4 | Hermès | 37 billion dollars | 6 billion dollars | France | Stock listed company |
5 | Rolex SA | 36 billion dollars | 6 billion dollars | Switzerland | Private ownership |
6 | Compagnie Financière Richemont | 36 billion dollars | 11.5 billion dollars | Switzerland | Stock listed company |
7 | Chanel | 33.5 billion dollars | 9 billion dollars | France | Private ownership |
8 | Dior | 32 billion dollars | 2 billion dollars | France | Stock listed company |
9 | Luxottica | 26.5 billion dollars | 10.5 billion dollars | Italy | Stock listed company |
10 | Kering | 25.5 billion dollars | 13 billion dollars | France | Stock listed company |
Employment
Currently 1.63 million people are employed in the textile and clothing industry. Most of these employees, 1 million people, are employed in producing at and managing clothing companies. The remaining 614,000 work on textiles and man-made fibres.
Consumer expenditure (2014)
Annual expenditure on clothing: | 360 billion dollars |
Annual expenditure on footwear: | 81 billion dollars |
Exports (2016)
Exports of apparel and textiles: 49.5 billion dollars
Clothing: 25 billion dollars