İSMAİL KUŞ “MAİTEKS” Interview,

Maiteks Chairman Of The Board | BTSO Vice President of the Board of Directors

Although the products we produce are mostly Baby’s and Children’s wear fabrics, we also cover a fabric range regarding women’s clothing and Men’s shirt design.

To be productive and efficient in the textile market, you must be open to continuous innovation.

Can you inform us about the process and products of MAITEKS since it was founded?
Maiteks is a family company with a history of about 50 years. The adventure that started with contract production continued in the eighties by marketing its products to the domestic market. Our company, which has been opened abroad over Laleli in the 1990s, has been trading with nearly thirty countries with its own designs and patterns. Our company also started to produce apparel, especially baby and children’ wear under Maibella brand , and sends 90% of its products to overseas markets.

Can you tell us about your current structure and potential in terms of production and export?

Although the products we produce are mostly Baby’s and Children’s wear fabrics, we also cover a fabric range regarding women’s clothing and Men’s shirt design. Our products mainly consist of Dispers and Reactive Digital printed fabrics.

How do you follow trends and in- novations in the sector? Could you tell us a bit about your design and innovation team?

We offer products that are composed by our strong R & D and design team to the appre- ciation of our customers in different coun- tries of the world and in Bursa Textile Show, by constantly participating in sectoral fairs abroad, and closely following the new trend sites in fashion.

What are your views on increasing productivity and sustainability?

To be productive and efficient in the textile market, you must be open to continuous in- novation. You have to give a great deal of im- portance to R & D and Design. Your market- ing team must also be strong. It is also very important that you fulfill your customers’ requests in a timely and complete manner.

You and your team have great contributions in transforming the Bursa Textile Show into its cur- rent position, which is an important platform for exhibiting the perfect qual- ity and design of Turkish textile in Bursa, the capital of the textile sector. What would you like to say about the added value that Bursa Textile Show brings to Bur- sa and Turkish textile?

Bursa Textile Show really suits Bursa. Bursa is a textile city be- cause of the textile history in the city traces back to very long dates. When we came to office in Btso, you know, we were aiming to bring new generation fairs to Bursa. Back in those days, new generation fairs were one of our sixteen macro projects. We predicted that a textile fair would be suitable for Bursa, the textile city because Bursa Textile companies were generally the lead- ing actors in all textile fairs in the world. Our task was hard, but we knew the potential.We started with the P&D project. We established the first Textile P&D in Bursa. P & D, which we had trouble finding com- panies at first, was doubled by our achivements. As Burteks, we started with purchasing committees as B2B organization. We had our first activity with 49 companies about three years ago by making one-to-one meet- ings with friends who participated in international fairs in the sector and by convincing our companies.

As Bursa Tekstil Show, we have brought our fair to a fair concept for the last two years Today, the most important textile fair of our region has been brought to Bursa. Bursa deserves more than that as a textile city. I would like to thank all the peo- ple who contributed to this effort, mainly the workers who worked re- ally hard and our friends who worked with dedication by taking part in the fair commission.