OMER KUSCULU, AHMET KUSCULU, NAMSAL FOOD:
We had a successful fair in Sial Paris. There were a lot of prafessional buyers for the IQF Fruits and vegetables. We had very abundant meetings with European companies. They also try to expand their business with Turkey and Turkish producer companies. They follow all the consistent economic developments with the current govemment and well satisfied. So, the recession in Europe is close to end.
We are expecting the year 2013 to be more lucrative on the frozen fruit side. There is a high demand for organic frozen fruits from Turkey. We, as Namsal, will always be staying at our customer’s service to satisfy them with our quality and rich range of products.
MEHMET GOKSU- SEYIDOGLU:
We displayed the newest products at this show. We have almost 400 products with Seyidoglu brand in our range. We enriched palate taste with more than 20 new products in 2012. In addition to our main business halva jam, we started the production of many types of desserts, too. Seyidoglu Food has been producing 25 tons of halva, 20 tons of sesame oil, 40 tons of jam, 10 tons of hazelnut paste daily in its 8 thousand square meter factory of which groundbreaking was made in 2002 on. We have started the investment of a new 3 thousand square meter factory next to our Hadimkoy factory. We will increase our capacity in 2013 considerably. For this reason, I believe that 2013 will be a good year for both, our company and for the sector.
SERIFE KIZIKLI, NEJAT ATALAN FOREIGN TRADE:
“Our company works in olive oil production since 1956, with private label and catering & food service activities. We present our own branded olive oils “OLIOARTE” and we’re satisfied with our participation in Sial Paris 2012. We met with many international buyers from all around the world.
In 2013 we’re expecting record production in Turkey and in a few years, Turkey will be the second biggest olive oil praducer country in the world. Thus, planning to develop OLIOARTE OLİVE OİL activities more, we already operate in North American and in Far Eastem countries and we want to develop our business in Middle East and South America. For developing our export markets and promoting our company’s reputation and brand image, we’ll be also in Sial Middle East.”
EKIR ODER, INTERNATIONAL TRADE MANAGER, YUMMY:
“It was the first time that we attended SIAL Paris as an exhibitor. We had been attending as visitors before, but I can say as Yummy Fruit Juices, SIAL 2012 performed well enough for the first time. We have already dealt with 4 big distributors from 4 different countries. Since we have been increasing our product portfolio, SIAL visitors’ being multinational makes us gain more attraction and we have noticed that we are late attending SIAL we should have done it before.
As it is known, the world FMCG habits are changing rapidly. Consumers are becoming aware of what they eat and drink. That is a good thing for manufacturers also. We will face with more conscious people to serve our goods. Turkey still has one of the lowest fruit juice consumption in the world. Because of the misunderstanding of what exactly the product is and the cultural basis consumption habits, annual consumption of fruit juice is 12 liters per person in Turkey. These values are increasing everyday and the most biggest increase in food sector that we are estimating will be placed in Africa region. That’s why most of the large manufacturers started to establish plants in Africa. We assume that we will see a fruitful year of 2013 in food sector primarily in Turkey, and then the rest of the world.
MUSTAFA KURTAY, MARKETI NG EXECUTIVE, KUREX FOODS:
“Exhibiting at SIAL Paris 2012 has been a very successful event for our company. That is because we were able to display our product for professionals all around the world. As SIAL is one of the most important and global food fairs, which held once every two years, it was such a big opportunity for us to be there. Not only we had a chance to display our entire product range at once, but also we were receiving lots of productive feedbacks and we were able to observe where the industry heading to and how we can position ourselves in the current food trends. Giving the fact that the enormous amount of visitors at SIAL Paris has positively influenced the potential interest we had from our clients. Overall, we were able to made successful business relationships. Turkey is capable of producing high quality products with reasonable prices. There fore, I am very optimistic about 2013.
SERKAN OZTURKOGLU, EXPORT MANAGER, MND FOOD:
It was a beneficial exhibition for us actually. But we could not have enough visitors from Middle East because of the Eid-al Adha. We think that Turkey is assuming an effective role in the food sector day by day. The year of 2013 is going to be more successful for Turkey with new projects and strategies according to new world needs and people’s habits. We believe that Turkey will achieve the respectable position worldwide that it deserves.
AYSE OZ, SALES MANAGER, ASFA CHOCOLATE:
“Although Turkey is the best developed country about participant quantity with a number of 256 companies, i am so unhappy to define about the stand places that booked for Turkish companies. It is a big problem for us. I hope in the next fair, this problem must be solved and more active areas booked for the Turkish companies. I mean more crowded and easy to see areas are booked for Turkish companies. Maybe fair executor could get rid of political conflict, and he make a fair booking operations. I wish to reach our ideas and opinions to responsible people or foundations about this subject. Turkish food industry developed hugely as companies increase their export potential and they get rid of negative effect of global economic crisis. However, the crisis which is still continue in EU, USA and most countries in the world, affected the market negatively. We are as producers afraid of increasing of the raw material prices to develop new product. In addition to increasing raw material prices, there is a harsh competition in the market there fore the prices always reduce.
This condition put us in a stressful condition. The negative Wather conditions affects selling of chocolate and confectionery. It will be continue in next years as negatively”
