Founded in 1997, LASIAD is a voluntary business world organisation formed by the leading entrepreneurs and managers of the Textile and Ready-to-Wear Sector.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2023 TARGETS AND LALELI
With 1000 members contributing to the economy of our country in areas such as production, added value, employment and foreign trade with their exports of textile and ready-to-wear products to 57 countries, LASIAD carries out activities that have a decisive role in the world perspective of its region and sector.
With the principles it takes as basis for its activities, LASIAD has transformed a market structure that is conjuncturally centred in our region and formed by needs into the concept of the world’s largest open-air shopping centre today, and contributes to the promotion and tourism of the country by providing instant interaction with millions of people with the employment it creates in our country and in our market countries.
In line with the 2023 targets of our country, it creates new projects with the understanding of sustainable development and participatory democracy.
LASIAD has published hundreds of reports on the issues included in its projection and has organised more than 1,000 events. It has represented its region and sector on global platforms by having more than 200 interactions on national and international platforms.
From Turkey to the World
LALELİ is one of the most important centres of the Turkish textile and garment sectors competing with the world in terms of quality products and services, and is also an important centre for tourism due to its location in the Historical Peninsula. The region is the showcase of Turkey with its sector and product diversity as well as the markets it serves.
A giant showcase consisting of thousands of stores
LALELİ, which started to become a shopping and fashion centre in the 1980s with the suitcase trade carried out by tourists from Arab and former Eastern Bloc countries in the 1990s, today has a well-established service network with over 7,000 companies and more than 20,000 employees offering textiles, ready-made clothing, leather and leather products, accessories, sub-industry products, touristic entertainment-recreation facilities, museums, galleries and art centres, tourism travel agencies, logistics, banking and communication services.
Thousands of years of history
LALELİ District is a centre that fascinates its visitors with its cultural background as well as its commercial activity and offers the beauties of Istanbul, one of the few wonders of the world. It is within walking distance of the Historical Peninsula, one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, and offers a holiday in the richness of history and culture with its restaurants, restaurants, cafes, hotel services, spa and historical baths offering traditional tastes of Turkish and international cuisine and traces of Turkish hospitality.
5% of foreign trade
Today, LALELİ is contributing to Turkey’s 2023 targets with the power of being a foreign trade centre that attracts the world’s leading brands in the ready-to-wear, textile, apparel and hotel sectors as well as producing global brands. The region, which is thought to have a trade volume of 6 billion dollars today, is rapidly moving towards its target of meeting 5% of Turkey’s foreign trade for 2023.
How it started
LALELİ, located in the Fatih district of Istanbul, experienced a commercial revival in the 1980s with the intensive arrival of Arab tourists to the region, and later on, trade with Poland and Hungary, former Eastern Bloc countries, started to be carried out from the region. In 1991, after the regime change in the USSR and the former Eastern Bloc, the commercial mobility of the region accelerated. Today, LALELİ District has become one of the largest open-air shopping centres in the world.
In accordance with the Textile and Apparel Agreement adopted by the World Trade Organisation in 1995, the abolition of trade quotas was put into practice at the beginning of 2005. As a result, a new period of increased competition in international markets has started. The Turkish textile and ready-to-wear sectors, which tried to compete on the basis of low-cost products until this period, started to move towards high value-added textile products and branding in ready-to-wear clothing instead of competing with traditional and simple products.
Capacity utilisation rates, which had a downward trend during the 2008-2009 crisis, recovered in the post-crisis period. Although 2009 global crisis affected Turkish textile and apparel sectors negatively like all other sectors, Turkish textile and apparel sectors managed to attract Far East customers to Turkey by using the advantage of fast delivery due to the fact that buyers work without stocks and tend to small purchases. After 2011, new investments were made, many of them for renovation purposes.
It is estimated that more than 7,000 companies, mostly from the manufacturing or service sectors, are located in the region, with an annual export volume of 6 billion dollars. In recent years, 80% of the companies in the region have started to go to Russia, where they have started to set up stores, and more than 20 thousand people are directly employed in the region.
Advantages of Laleli
Institutionalised, open to innovation, quality, fast and flexible…
Open to change and innovation, flexible production and service, LALELİ is an open-air shopping centre that impresses with its sectoral diversity and has become a region preferred by the world with its quality, price and high speed advantages.
Trade with 4 continents
LALELI region, where the leading manufacturers of the Turkish textile sector are located, carries out trade with CIS Countries, Russian Federation, Turkic Republics, Eastern European Countries (Former Iron Curtain Countries), Middle Eastern Countries, Arab Countries and African countries within the scope of Suitcase Trade (passenger accompanying goods or pronto sales), and our companies continue their commercial activities with 57 countries, including EU Countries and America.
International Trade Base
LALELİ Region, which has over 7,000 textile and apparel-based main and sub-industry-trade companies, most of which are manufacturers, logistics companies that play a role in their exports and attract attention with their fast delivery times, and a variety of quality products in all sectors, especially entertainment and leisure, has a well-established service network with accommodation, transportation and communication infrastructure. In the area of textile-apparel, the main sectoral diversity such as men’s/women’s/children’s evening dresses and casual wear, hosiery-underwear, denim, home textiles, fabric and leather clothing, footwear, accessories, jewellery, hotels, tourism agencies, restaurants, cafes, night clubs, Turkish baths, spa centres, logistics, financial institutions stand out.
At the centre of culture and tourism
LALELI is a centre that fascinates its visitors with its cultural richness, being within walking distance to museums and historical monuments such as Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Sultanahmet, Grand Bazaar, Suleymaniye, Ibrahim Pasha Palace, Archeology, Turkish and Islamic Arts, Mosaic, Kariye, which is called the Historical Peninsula of Istanbul, one of the top 6 regions of the world that attracts the most tourists.
About LASIAD
Project centre of regional branding LASIAD
LASIAD (LALELI Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association of LALELI), which is located in LALELI Region and undertakes to be the voice of over 7 thousand tradesmen of the region, almost all of which consist of manufacturing companies, has been serving since its establishment in 1997 without distinguishing between members and non-members. LASIAD, which has members from all manufacturing and service sectors, is also a complete information centre for visitors to the region. It creates cooperation opportunities by introducing those who want to shop in the region to the manufacturers with the product group they are looking for with the right directions.
LASIAD is an NGO established to promote the companies operating in the region in the country, the region and the world, to ensure that they provide services at world standards, to research regional and international problems arising in the developing political and economic processes and to produce projects for their solutions.
Social responsibility activities
As an NGO, LASIAD, which operates on behalf of the country and humanity with the awareness of social responsibility in addition to the economy, tries to respond as positively as possible wherever and wherever assistance and support is requested. We are interested in natural disasters, inadequate food, fight against diseases, and refugee accommodation problems, especially education needs.
For example, it established a neighbourhood consisting of 100 containers during the Van Earthquake, provided 300 thousand TL cash aid to Somalia upon the call of our President, provided 100 thousand TL cash support to the victims of the coal disaster in Soma, and provided in-kind and cash aid to our brothers and sisters in Mynmar, Bosnia, Syria, Aleppo, Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions, Diyarbakır, Istanbul Fatih and some other districts, has given clothes to many students studying in schools in Fatih and some other districts, has allocated around 30 vehicles to Istanbul Police Department and Fatih District Police Department so far, has also donated cash donations many times, has given iftar to 6,500 people in Ağrı in 2016 with the participation of our Prime Minister Mr. Binali Yıldırım and some ministers. It has been the patron of Fatih Kâtip Kasım Primary School for about 10 years and has carried out and concluded aid projects such as repair, maintenance, circumcision organisations for students, assistance to parents and support for many other activities every year, and is a charitable NGO that has provided many in-kind and cash aids to mosques in our region and other regions. The aids and social responsibility projects are not limited to these. Only a short part of these aids are mentioned here.
LALELİ in 2023 Vision
We are running to targets together with our country
It is planned that LALELİ will shoulder 5% of Turkey’s export target of 500 billion dollars for 2023, which is 25 billion dollars.
In the long term, the competitive areas of the textile sector are emerging as newly formed markets, conscious customer base, communication technology, ethics, logistics sector, innovation, sustainability, low-cost raw materials, while the necessary elements for combating these areas are determined as R&D, design, strengthening education at technical staff levels, increasing branding, design and collection in accordance with trends, a strengthened identity in foreign retail and steps have started to be taken to ensure these.
With the Made in Turkey and Turquality programmes, Turkey has brought the concepts of R&D, P&D, design and branding to the forefront in order to offer products with higher added value in its 2023 targets. LALELİ has gradually taken its place in this caravan with its brands recognised both in the country and in the world. Increasing the number of brands and creating innovative, specially designed products are among the 2023 targets of LALELİ.
It is considered that the Turkish textile sector should open up to newly emerging markets, establish industrial partnerships, and carry out better works in the European and Mediterranean area.
Founded in 1997, LASIAD is a voluntary business world organisation formed by the leading entrepreneurs and managers of the Textile and Ready-to-Wear Sector.
