A producer survey on Turkish furniture industry

Abstract

Turkish furniture industry has been growing steadily since the liberalization of Turkish economy in early 1980’s. However, the industry faces some technological and economical problems which affects the competitiveness of the firms in the global market. The major problems of the firms in the furniture sector is availability and quality of raw materials, and the productivity of labor. Turkish furniture manufacturers can be classified into two categories; small job-shops (workshops) and big firms. Small job-shops are scattered all over the country and their major market is domestic. Whereas big firms market their products domectically, and internationally. In this thesis we have investigasted Turkish furniture industry