Investment In Turkey

by Hakan Altnkeser, Managing Partner, Haltin Consultancy &Trade LCC

Turkey offers generous investment opportunities in several sectors with its high
skilled labor force,and ability to penetrate knowhow experience in emerging
manufacturing industries and supplier bases.
Firstly, lets have a look at the key factors which are essential for the global investors to
support the investment decision in a foreign country:
Population: The charts below show the population, over 65 years, below 15 years of Turkey
in comparison to other Eastern EU countries. Turkey has strong competitive advantage in
young population who are already in workforce and/or will join to work force in the
following years.

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Labor Market: High skilled labor in force in Turkey has become so attractive for the global
investors in recent years. IMD WCYs executive survey based on an index from 0 to 10 points
out that Turkey has strong capability in Finance skills, and qualified engineers compared to
Eastern European countries.

Development and Application of Technology: A convincing level of technological

infrastructure and application such as mobile networks, IT, banking, supplier bases, and subcontractors are the key factors for a business to run efficiently. According to IMD WCY
executive survey, development and application of technology of Turkey is comparatively
good among the East EU Countries, as graphed below:

Doing Business: Bureaucratic process is a cost of doing business in many countries. We are
all aware that complicated procedures are generally intimidating. However, Turkey has
shown great progress to contribute the business environment in recent years. For example,
you will spend less time and effort in Turkey to register a property and establish your
company. The graph below shows the number of days required to register a property and to
establish a company in comparison to selected countries.

These charts in this section are generated based on the data obtained from the IMD World Competitiveness Online 19952015, the World Trade Indicators 2009 database, and the World Bank Doing Business 2015 report.

We can increase the number of key factors to analyse basic criteria for doing business. If you
have an existing production facilities in Europe, and would like to enlarge your capacity with
a new plant, the right address could be Turkey. That is why, Turkey has been chosen as an
important destination for 39.200 companies established by foreign capital.
Turkey is still a Low Cost County in many sectors and it is likely to keep its competitive
advantage in the future. In addition to being a LCC country, the current geographical location
of Turkey serves as a hub among MENA, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe countries.
The real power of Turkey consists the mid-size family enterprises with generally well
adopted to local environment and doing semi-automated production. 60% of total exports in
Turkey are realized by the mid-size family enterprises. These companies have good shares at
local markets and partially at foreign markets, optimized manufacturing capacities and they
are mainly run by the family members. They are profitable and financially in a good position.
Some of them highly intend to have strategic partners with whom they could reinforce their
technological background and may become part of a global entity. So, in the stage, potential
acquisition possibilities in Turkey also serve great opportunities.

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By M&A transaction which could be finished at

a good price, brings a lot of valuable
opportunities;
- Well running plant
- Low cost of manufacturing opportunity (Min.
monthly wage cost to employer 470 )
- Easy penetration to the market of 76 mio.
population
- Experienced staff in local market
- No time losing.

LARGE DOMESTIC MARKET

39.9 million broadband internet subscribers in

2014, up from 0.1 million in 2002 (ICTA,
TurkStat)

71.9 million mobile phone subscribers in 2014,

up from 23 million in 2002 (TurkStat)

57 million credit card users in 2014, up from 16

million in 2002 (The Interbank Card Center of
Turkey)

166,5 million airline passengers in 2014, up from

33 million in 2002 (TurkStat)

The only thing you need to have before you start

35.9 million international tourist arrivals in 2014,
to work is a good consultant and advisor with a
up from 13 million in 2002 (TurkStat)
one stop shop perspective who has real
Source: Investment Support and Pomortion Agency
business experience and can lead you
throughout all the way from market analysis,
company selection, negotiations, and final agreement, legally take over and finish the
transaction and also follow up for the first year.

A natural bridge between both East-West and NorthSouth axes, thus creating an efficient and costeffective outlet to major markets

Easy access to 1.5 billion customers in Europe,

Eurasia, the Middle East and North Africa

Access to multiple markets worth USD 25 trillion of

GDP
Source: Investment Support and Pomortion Agency

Our company, Haltin Consultancy & Trade

LCC, provides exactly this service. With
experienced team, you will have benefit and
confidence to be with the right partner.
Please feel free to consult any further info if
you request more detailed information
about investment in Turkey. As Haltin
Invest, we are ready to offer an extensive
program for you to develop a business in
Turkey.

Hakan Altnkeser is the founding partner and principal of Haltn Consultancy

&Trade and has spent circa 20 years working with in various sectors like
textile, power generators, FMCG, Chemy-Pharma, Home Appliances,
Automotive, Plastic Injection. Hakan is holding MSc. Degree on industiral
engineering. He worked in Egypt, Turkey and Germany. His expertises are
mainly on International Business, Trading, Manufacturing investments, M&A
Advisory, Business Policy, Strategic Management, Business development,
Project Management, Purchasing, Sourcing, Sub-contracting, Supplier
Management.

Haltin Consultancy & Trade LLC

1993 Sokak No 20 Saglam Residence
Kat:1 D-12 Esenyurt-Istanbul TURKEY
Phone: +90 (212) 871 0800
Fax: +90 (212) 871 0810
info@haltin.com.tr

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