Göknur Gıda was ranked first by Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) in the Sector of Fruit and Vegetable Goods across Turkey with the export figures it realized in 2021.
The first prize was awarded to the Osman Aslanali, CEO of Göknur Gıda which engages in exportation of 78.8 million dollars with 2021 figures by Mustafa Varank, Minister of Industry and Technology in the Award Ceremony of the Champions of Export organized in Haliç Convention Center.
Göknur Gıda, a leading company of the fruit and vegetable juice sector, was ranked first by Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) in the Sector of Fruit and Vegetable Goods across Turkey with the export figures it realized in 2021.
A first prize was awarded to Göknur Gıda Maddeleri Enerji İmalat İhracat Ticaret ve Sanayi A.Ş. (“Göknur Gıda”), a leading company of the fruit and vegetable juice sector that is an important pillar of the agriculture-based industry of Turkey by Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) due to its contributions into the national economy for its success in the production and exportation. According to the data of TIM for 2021 year, Osman Aslanali, CEO of Göknur Gıda that engaged in exportation amounting to 78.855.174 million dollars received the first prize from Mustafa Varank, Minister of Industry and Technology in TIM Ordinary General Assembly and Award Ceremony of the Champions of the Export.
Osman Aslanali, CEO of Göknur Gıda: “Fruit, vegetable products and juices may be petroleum of Turkey”
Osman Aslanali, CEO of Göknur Gıda, said in relation with the first prize in TIM Awards of the Champions of the Export by addressing that “the fruit-vegetable products may be petroleum of Turkey”:
“Our country is the 4th and 6th large-scaled producer of the World in the vegetable and fruit production. We are operating in the agricultural industry sector that is of strategic importance both in today and in the future. We consider that fruit-vegetable agriculture is of a strategic importance in terms of our country and it has a far higher potential. Almost all of the fruit and vegetable sector allows us to produce an exportable product on condition that domestic resources are used. Our country is highly suitable for the fruit agriculture for its geography. If we increase our production capacity as a country in this field, we think that we can produce our foreign exchange earnings correspondingly. For instance; New Zelland generates income amounting to 20 billion dollars yearly from the exportation of dairy products, this represents one third of the exportation of that country. We believe that it is possible for us to attain such a success in the fruit and vegetable as a country with the proper models. Our sector and Turkey’s fruit-vegetable export are still maintaining their rising in the global markets. Whereas the World trade remains almost constant, the fruit juice exportation of Turkey has experienced a growth 2,5 times more by increasing from 183 million dollars in 2016 to 473 million dollars in 2021.”
“We will further increase our share in the global markets with the strength of our Country coming from the agriculture”
Osmanali pointed out that Göknur Gıda being placed at the 200th rank according to the research results of Istanbul Chamber of Industry (“ISO”) on “500 Major Industrial Enterprises of Turkey-2021” and at the 68th rank in the exportation, has a power of processing all and any vegetable and fruits by building facilities in all major fruit production sites and continued as follows:
“As Göknur Gıda, we are producing concentrates and puree, table fresh fruit and vegetables, packed fruit juices, more than 90 added-value products along with the by-products generated during the production of fruit and vegetables and also clean electrical energy from the renewable energy sources in our 10 plants installed in four different cities. We are one of the biggest producers of our country with 850 employees, excluding seasonal and temporary workers, and a processing capacity of 7.200 tons of fruit daily and fruit juice filling capacity more than 1 million liter. As Göknur Gıda operating with the vision of being a leader of Turkey in its sector with the innovative products and being a recognized and preferred company of the world We have been exporting more than 80% of our production to the World markets for 20 years and we have been maintaining our consistent growth for 25 years. The exportation of Göknur is delivered to 470 corporate customers in 85 countries, in other words, it reaches to a large part of the World. We make a large part of our sales to the global and corporate companies in the developed and economically-growing countries like USA, Europe and Far East. The fact that a great part of our incomes come from the exportation provides a natural protection for our Company against rate of exchange crises. The sales proceeds of our company increased 70% compared with the previous year in 2021 and it realized at 2 billion TRY by increasing about 3 times more compared with the sales of two years earlier. We will continue to work in order to get more shares from the World markets with the strength of our country coming from the agriculture.”