EİB to Hold Financial General Assembly Meeting

EIB to Hold Financial General Assembly Meetings The 112,000 exporters operating under the umbrella of 61 exporter associations, which generated USD 254 billion in foreign exchange for Turkey in 2022, will hold their 2022 annual financial general assembly meetings in April. The boards of the 61 exporter associations that took office in the elections held in April 2022 will share with exporter general assembly members how many of the targets they set before the elections they have achieved and how many they have not, as well as the work they have undertaken to heal the deep wounds caused by the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes that occurred on 6 February.  

Marathon to start with fashion industry, iron sector to have the final word

  The Aegean Exporter Associations, which contributed USD 18.3 billion to Turkey's exports in 2022, entering 2023—the centennial year of the Turkish Republic—with the goal of "preserving the existing," will launch its 2022 financial general assembly meeting marathon on Monday, 10 April 2023 with the meetings of the Aegean Textile and Raw Materials Exporters Association and the Aegean Ready-Made Clothing and Apparel Exporters Association, concluding with the general assembly of the Aegean Iron and Non-Ferrous Metals Exporters Association, which has been the export champion within EIB for the past five years. At the general assembly meetings, which represent the pinnacle of the Aegean Region's fashion industry, Prof. Dr. Yaşar Uysal, Faculty Member at the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Dokuz Eylül University, will share current developments in Turkish and global economies with textile and apparel exporters. Attorney Sevil Eskicioğlu will provide information on Germany's Supply Chain Act, one of Turkey's leading export markets in the fashion industry, and will explain the legal procedures that textile and apparel exporters should follow in case of disputes. Members of the Aegean Furniture, Paper and Forest Products Exporters Association, whose exports are approaching USD 1 billion, will meet at the general assembly on Tuesday, 11 April 2023. EMKOÜİB members will present the roadmap to be followed to reach USD 1 billion in exports by the end of 2023.

They will reunite seedlings with the soil for a greener world

  The Aegean Aquatic Products and Animal Products Exporters Association, which has risen to a leading position among food sectors within the Aegean Exporter Associations through its recent initiatives, will hold its general assembly on Thursday, 13 April 2023. With the goal of a greener world, having established a grove of 1,800 seedlings in Izmir for members who were leaders in exports in 2021, the Aegean Aquatic Products and Animal Products Exporters Association will continue this green initiative in 2022. ESÜHMİB will present at the general assembly the certificates of the seedling grove it will establish in Bolvadin, Afyonkarahisar, for members who contributed to exports in 2022. At the final general assembly meeting before Eid al-Fitr under the umbrella of Aegean Exporter Associations, members of the Aegean Leather and Leather Products Exporters Association, which encompasses the shoe, leather goods, leather apparel and fur subsectors, will gather.  

They will thank billion-dollar exports with contribution to a greener world

  The Aegean Cereals, Legumes, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters Association, which for the first time in its history surpassed the USD 1 billion export barrier in 2022 and offers a wide range of products including vegetable oils, oil seeds, confectionery, chocolate products, cereals, legumes and animal feed, will review its 2022 achievements at its general assembly meeting on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 16:00. The EHBYİB Board of Management will also present at the general assembly the certificates of the grove it has established for the exporters who made the greatest contribution to the 2022 success. The Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters Association, which exports seedless raisins, dried apricots and dried figs—products in which we are world leaders in production and export—to more than 150 countries worldwide and has been doing so for over a century, will hold its 2022 annual financial general assembly meeting on Thursday, 27 April 2023 at 14:00.  

Export champion to conclude the general assembly marathon

  The Aegean Iron and Non-Ferrous Metals Exporters Association, which has reached the top of exports over the past five years among the 12 exporter associations under the Aegean Exporter Associations umbrella, will be the association that concludes the 2022 annual financial general assembly marathon on Friday, 28 April 2023 at 14:00. EDDMİB members will consult on ensuring the continuation of the success they have achieved over the past five years.

Eskinazi: "The meetings at general assemblies are very valuable"

Jak Eskinazi, Coordinator President of the Aegean Exporter Associations, noting that exporters come together once a year at general assemblies to present a vision, underlined that general assembly meetings are very valuable in terms of making decisions that guide Turkey's exports. Stating that they wish to remove general assemblies from the context of being meetings where budgets are discussed and decided, Eskinazi said: "Turkey should solve its employment problem through exports and ensure its growth through production and exports. Every production enterprise in Turkey should acquire the competence to export at least 50 percent of its production. An economy that grows through consumption and imports is like a cancerous body that is not treated. After a while it spreads throughout the body and death becomes inevitable. We are trying to structure our general assemblies in a way that will present a vision to Turkey. Since there is no election commotion at financial general assemblies, it provides a suitable ground for this purpose. In the past year we will discuss what we have done and what we have not done. We will shape the coming year's homework through the input we will receive from our general assembly members. We will listen to expert speakers on developments in the Turkish and global economies. I believe it will be a productive general assembly marathon," he said.