Turkey’s Yesim Tekstil a leading manufacturer of knit goods for US and European retailers has won an award for export performance which is granted to companies that achieve the highest increase in their exports compared to the previous year. Yesim was awarded the bronze prize in the country’s Stars of Export ‘Export Incentive Awards’, organized by the Dünya Gazetesi periodical and sponsored by Akbank with the cooperation of DHL Turkey.

A production partner of the Nike brand since 2005, Yesim Tekstil also manufactures for internationally renowned brands such as Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, Esprit, Hugo Boss, Lands' End, Tchibo and Schlafgut.

The company employs around 3000 people in its garment and home textiles production facilities and is based in Bursa in northwest Turkey, one of the most industrialized and culturally charged metropolitan centres in the country. Yesim Tekstil has a daily production capacity of 55 tons of knitted products, 70 tons dyed, 100,000 meters of printed fabric, 150,000 garments and 60,000 home textile products.

As well as being one of the four largest fully integrated yarn-to-finished-product facilities under one roof in the garment sector anywhere in the world, the company is also one of Turkey’s largest firms in terms of creating employment. Apart from its main production facilities in Turkey, the company has in recent years subcontracted to companies in countries such as Moldova and Egypt as well as numerous such facilities manufacturing within Turkey.

At the company’s YeÅŸim Tekstil Örme knitting division it employs 285 personnel working in a 4000 square meter production area, with a plant of 142 circular knitting machines, 24 flat knit accessory machines, yarn winding machines and fabric cutting machines.