Aegean Exporters’ Associations are transitioning their businesses to digital

Aegean exporters will achieve their goal with e-export

In 2021, retail e-commerce sales reached approximately $4.9 trillion worldwide. It is estimated that this figure will grow by 50 percent over the next four years to about $7.4 trillion by 2025.

Aegean exporters believe that with the adoption of the “Decision on E-Export Supports”, they have paved the way to adapt to the rules of the rapidly digitizing new world.

Aegean Exporters’ Associations is the digital marketplace of Aegean exporters, which they started working on last year. “eib.li” plans to complete the work of the portal and make it a new global online trading channel.

Aegean Exporters’ Unions Coordinator President Jak Eskinazi, with the establishment of the “Decision on E-Export Supports”, regarding the preparation of companies and cooperative organizations for e-export, the online exhibition and promotion of Turkish products and brands in foreign markets and marketplaces, and fast delivery of foreign orders, intended to cover costs. In addition to businesses and collaborative organizations, E-Export Consortiums, retail e-commerce sites, marketplaces and B2B platforms will also benefit from e-export support.” said.

It will give a great boost to Turkey’s e-export movement

Eskinazi said: “Through the companies that have been given the status of E-Export Consortium by the Ministry, the production of manufacturing companies will be more focused on e-export. In addition, Turkey E-Export Platform, which will be established by the cooperation organizations to be designated by the Ministry and under the coordination of the Ministry; It will enable exporters and buyers to receive, receive and fulfill orders, digitize export transactions and use new generation technologies, and the support given to this formation given at a rate of 75 percent for 5 years and up to 150,000,000 TL per year will accelerate our country’s e-export movement.With the support of e-export, a common synergy for companies and organizations has been created and the way has been cleared for our exporters to be competitive in the online market.” he said.

The Digital Marketplace of Aegean Exporters »eib.li”

Eskinazi explained that exporters associations can work with companies to turn to e-export and appear in international markets with the support of the ministry, continuing his words as follows:

“In fact, we will have the opportunity to complete the work of our eib.li portal, which we started last year, and to become the digital marketplace for our Aegean exporters and make it attractive to buyers from all over the world. world. We will have the opportunity to participate in the world’s largest e-commerce platforms from Europe to the Far East, such as Amazon, Jingdong, Alibaba, eBay, Rakuten, B2W Companhia Digital, Zalando, JD.com. The Turkish exporter, who is used to selling container by container in the traditional way, should be able to sell products piece by piece to buyers on the other side of the world. And this support is very important in this journey.”

Digitization started from the Aegean Sea

Eskinazi recalled that they hosted Shoedex2020, the first virtual fair for the shoe, bag, saddlery and leather clothing industry in Turkey and the world, and The Fource, the world’s first virtual food fair, in recent years.

“We held virtual sectoral trade delegations to the United Arab Emirates in the food industry, to the Netherlands in the clothing industry and to Vietnam, the Middle East and Australia in the natural stone industry. We plan to enter into new collaborations in the very near future that will take place through e-commerce in the Chinese market. We are in talks with agencies approved by platforms like JD and T-Mall. Our İzmir Development Agency supported e-export project in the furniture sector has been completed. To ensure that our companies are successful in e-export, we determined their needs and created a roadmap accordingly. This resulted in an application guide for the entire industry.”

We are increasing the capacity and brand equity of all sectors in e-export

Jak Eskinazi said: “As part of our efforts to engage in digital platforms, we want to promote our ready-to-wear and apparel exporters and industry on international platforms with the AegeanHasApparel (AHA) project. We designed the AHA platform as a platform that makes it the center of all communication activities to be carried out worldwide. In this direction we have created a website and collected the contact details of our companies in one environment. Currently we have almost 100 producers registered on our site. We will carry out such projects adapting to all our sectors and we are working to increase the capacity and brand equity of our e-export businesses by developing several projects.” he concluded his speech.

Source: (BYZHA) – Beyaz News Agency