Turkish Jewelry Industry

Turkish Jewelry industry has become one of the leading countries in world production and exports thanks to the 5000-year-old heritage that inspires designs, creation of unlimited models, production capacity, flexible production, unmatched quality, competitive prices and the capacity to deliver in the shortest possible time.

Turkey is the one of the largest manufacturer of gold jewelry in the world. This capacity enables Turkish manufacturers to offer the best value prices and terms to the needs of the buyers. Turkish mass manufacturing plants are set to deliver the orders of the largest brands and wholesaler in the shortest lead times. Mounting industry is the rising star of Turkish Jewelry manufacturing as well.

Turkey serves 80 countries in its region as a distribution hub and jewelry superstore for Meditarrenean, South East Europe, Russia and CIS, Middle East, Black Sea and Caucasia Regions, not only for Turkish manufacturing industry but also for the jewelry and loose stones from all over the world.
Bridging East and West on a key strategical position and addressing to a population of more than 1 billion at maximum 3 hours flight time, Istanbul is rapidly being a global jewelry superstore.

In the past 10 years, Turkish gold jewellery producers had important success and Turkey had become the second biggest exporter of the world after Italy, fifth largest importer and the third biggest producer after Italy and India. After India and USA, getting ahead of even China, Turkey-the third gold consumer country of the world, the amount of 30 tons of export had reached 300 tons, the endorsement of the sector had come at 5.6 billion and the export had passed over 1 billion dollars. The target of the  sector is to increase its export to 5 billion USD  in 3 years time.

Presently, 40,000 companies, offering services from production to sales, operate in Turkish jewelry sector. More than 50 of these companies employ between 200 to 1500 qualified employees and are taking giant steps towards branding. The jewelry industry employs approximately 250,000 people.

Turkey exports gold jewelry to 136 countries. In exports of gold jewelry, the US comes first, followed by the UAE, Israel, Germany, Italy and Libya. The reasons for the expot success of the Turkish gold jewelry industry are its original heritage, unlimited range of models, flexible production approach, unequalled quality, competitive prices and ability to deliver in the shortest possible time.

Exports of silver jewelry were $12,073 million in 2002, $16,701 million in 2003 and $26,882 million in 2004. Exports were made to 94 countries with USA, Romania, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain being the biggest importers of Turkish jewelry.

With its unique heritage of jewellery making and with the highest technology usage and flexible production, the industry creates an immense variety of products with excellent finishing. Adding shortest delivery time and competitive prices to the long list of qualifications, Turkish Jewellery is the right choice to make.

All international buyers know and trust Turkey. It is now time for consumers in the world to get to know Turkish gold jewelry producers. The industry is entering a new era. The vision of this new era is “branding”... Leading companies in the sector have taken their steps towards branding. With Turkish brands that will be recognized, known and trusted worldwide, the industry is getting ready to broaden its horizons.