Leather Industry Will Meet in İzmir Between 16-19 March

Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyerparticipated in the evaluation and information meeting of the Leather&More- 16th Leather and Leather Apparel Fair to be held by İZFAŞ, hosted by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, between 19-4 March. President Soyer said, “We know that if you grow, you produce more and export, the prosperity of this city will increase. We are with you and we will continue to be with you.”

Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerContinuing its works in line with the vision of "Izmir, the City of Fairs", Izmir Metropolitan Municipality continues to bring different sectors together in Izmir with the fairs organized. Leather&More-16, which will be held by İZFAŞ between 19-4 March, hosted by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality. Evaluation and information meeting of Leather and Leather Apparel Fair was held in İzmir Marina Nefes Restaurant. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor attended the meeting. Tunç Soyer, Aegean Exporters' Unions Leather and Leather Products Exporters' Association Chairman Erkan Zandar, Aegean Region Chamber of Industry Leather Processing and Leather Products Industry Professional Committee member and İzmir Free Zone (İZBAŞ) Chairman Eyüp Cute, İZFAŞ General Manager Canan Karaosmanoğlu Buyer, İzmir Şükran Nurlu, Deputy Secretary General of the Metropolitan Municipality, representatives of non-governmental organizations and leather industry representatives attended.

Soyer: The city's prosperity depends on breaking its shell

President Tunç SoyerEmphasizing the disasters İzmir has experienced in recent years, “Continuing to grow and export despite the economic crisis and the pandemic is above all kinds of appreciation. You can do much more. You are the resilient industrialists of this geography. No one in the world is experiencing the difficulties you are experiencing. If you can handle them, you can do much more. As Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and İZFAŞ; We will be with you until the end. We know that the prosperity of this city depends on breaking its shell and integrating it with the outside. This is how the prosperity of a city grows.”
Stating that they increased the number of specialized fairs from 11 to 31 per year, Soyer continued: “Leather&More deserves much more. We are with you, we will continue to be with you. We want to do whatever we can to increase your volume and export more production. We know that if you grow, you produce and export more, the prosperity of this city will increase. Wherever you get stuck, we'll be there for you. Let this fair be a fair where the bar is raised a little higher.”

Thanks to President Soyer

Erkan Zandar, Chairman of the Board of the Leather and Leather Products Exporters' Association, said, “The Leather & More Fair was an organization that Izmir lacked in leather apparel. This year we are holding the fourth one. I would like to thank the Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and his team for their support and contributions. We will organize this fair together with Shoexpo. We hope that our two sectors will be beneficial to each other, that there will be an environment where the awakening, exports come back, and the leather industry returns to the past.”