4 Million Euro Investment from Hugo Boss to Turkey

Arif Kaya, General Manager of Hugo Boss Tekstil Sanayi

Operating in  the Aegean Free Zone, the Hugo Boss Turkey factory will host new investments brought by the changing clothing trends with the pandemic. The company will increase its production capacity and employment in Turkey with new investments to be commissioned next year.

Arif Kaya, General Manager of Hugo Boss Tekstil Sanayi, said that orders shifted to Turkey due to the effects of Covid-19 cases on companies in Asia. Kaya, “Our company also gets its share from this order shift. Our company has a very serious growth expectation for the next year. We are growing in sports products. We will produce 500 thousand units this year, 2 million units next year, and 4-4.5 million units in the following years, in crew neck and polo-shirts. The number of our employees is around 3,300, and we will employ 1000 more by the end of next year.

It will Establish a New T-Shirt Factory

Kaya pointed out that their facility in Izmir has a 35 percent share in all product groups, with 3.5 million pieces of products, within the Hugo Boss global structuring. Kaya stated that with the new capacity in sportswear, they will increase to 4.5 million pieces next year and 7 million pieces in two years, and their share will rise to over 40 percent.

Explaining that the company has investment plans of 4 million Euros for the next year, Kaya stated that a significant part of this resource will be allocated to the new t-shirt factory to be established on an area of 5 thousand square meters.

“We provide half of the new employment with İŞKUR”

Stating that the employees’ take in their jobs is an important factor in the shift of investments to Turkey, Kaya said that they trust Turkey’s future and that they think it is a very good environment for investment.