1. Turkish Furniture Industry
Nowadays, with all these prospects of the furniture industry, Turkey is among the most assuring
furniture providers in the world.
Furniture production in Turkey goes back to the nineteenth century and was done in small shops as
craftsman production. Even so, by the fast globalisation and all other prospects, present furniture
industry is comely a fashion sector.
In Turkey, furniture is produced both in workshops and industrial-scale fabricating units. Furniture
production is extremely fragmentised among a large number of small shops. These small
workshops act an significant function in producing hand carved and handmade furniture.
Workshops are flexible establishments in nature and have enough capacity and labour force to
expand their production line in order to provide large orders. Big furniture firms produce standard
models by applying automated mass-production methods and most of their production is oriented
towards exportation. According to information from Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), in
2009 furniture production was realized as sixty-four billion Turkish Liras.
In accordance with the recent General Census of Industry and Business Establishments (2008), the
furniture sector employs one hundred fifty,427 people and the industry has thirty-four,438
companies fabricating various furniture. What is more, capacity data of The Union of Chambers of
Commerce and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) reports forty companies who have over
250 employees and 155 companies who have over 100 employees. Also, Istanbul Chamber of
Industry’s list of the top five hundred industrial administrations of Turkey lets in 6 furniture
companies. In accordance with the list, these 6 companies are; Boytas Mobilya, Merkez Celik,
Merinos Hali Sanayi, Istikbal Mobilya, Major SKT Oto Donanim and Teknik Malzeme.Furniture
production in Turkey is centered primarily in Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa (Inegol), Kayseri, Izmir and
Adana. The most significant furniture production districts are Istanbul and the region of Bolu-
Duzce, which is celebrated for its production of wood products.
The long-familiar furniture-manufacturing district in Turkey, called “Siteler”, is placed in Ankara.
The number of registered small and medium sized enterprises in “Siteler” is over 10,000. In
Ankara, there are many laborintensive small enterprises fabricating classical-handmade furniture
and there are about 10 major furniture producers who have massproduction potentialities.
The wood industry is developing quickly in the Bursa-Inegol area, the third most significant
furniture production area, which is bordered by timberland areas.
The furniture industry of the Inegol area is small sized but has great potency to ameliorate itself.
Additional significant furniture region is Kayseri, which has big capacity for the production of
sofa beds, couch beds and 7 of the twenty two biggest producers of Turkey are accomplished here.
Izmir also has a furniture production districts called “Karabaglar and Kisikkoy” which supply
furniture to the Aegean Region.