The Message of the President

The Message of the President

Unity are important.

The Message of the President
The Message of the President

Dear Colleagues;

TASD, The Footwear Industrialists Association of Turkiye, aims to develop this industry branch technically and economically and to increase its international competitiveness by gathering the members of the sector who have made the footwear industry their profession and added value to this sector with their knowledge and skills. TASD, which adopts as a principle to meet the professional and social needs of the footwear industry, to help the development of the industry and to identify the issues that will be necessary, was established in Istanbul in 1985 to help the regulation of the relevant laws and decrees and to contribute to the solution of the problems of the footwear industry by contacting the necessary authorities.

Our association, which is proud of adding the phrase “Turkiye” in front of its name with the decision of the Council of Ministers, aims to embrace not only its members but also our entire sector, being aware of the meaning and importance of this phrase, as in the past.)

According to the statistics we have made, 212 million pairs of footwear are produced in our country, which employs 240,000 people in 18,500 companies and contributes 4.2 billion dollars to the country’s economy. The Turkish footwear industry exports 26% of the footwear it produces and takes a 0.37% share in the world’s footwear imports, which is 97.7 billion. Our footwear industry, which ranks third in Europe in terms of production power and ninth in the world, has a very modern machinery park as it has developed rapidly in recent years. Compared to the manufacturers in many countries that are considered as footwear production centers in the world today, the Turkish footwear industry has much more modern and advanced production technologies.

Our footwear industry has understood the importance of fashion, brand and promotion to be permanent in world markets and to ensure sustainable competition and has started its work in this direction. As a result of this, the sector established the Turkish Footwear Industry Education Foundation (TASEV) entirely with its own means, and the two-year vocational school of Technical Sciences of Istanbul University, which started to design and production program education at the associate degree level in the 2002-2003 education period, was put into operation. With the introduction of the industry, the way for the training of trained intermediate staff and designers who will create fashion brands has been paved. In addition, by opening footwear design departments in many private universities, especially in Konya Selcuk University, it has started to train footwear designers that the Turkish footwear industry needs.

As TASD President, I and my team will always try to do our best to serve our sector members in Turkiye in line with the vision and mission of our sector. In this direction, we expect you, our valuable members of the sector, to support our association by presenting solutions by bringing all kinds of problems related to our association and in the sector to our association.)

To provide the technical, economic, professional and social needs of the members who have made the footwear industry their profession in the best possible way, and to make the Turkish footwear industry a leader in the world market. With its MISSION, TASEV, AYSAD, IDMIB; You should have no doubt that we will move our industry to a very advanced point in unity and solidarity by acting jointly for the development of the industry together with TUAF and FOOTWEAR MAKERS ROOMS.