14.06.2022 İstanbul
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu attended the gala night organized by the İstanbul Chamber of Industry at the Zorlu Performing Arts Center on the occasion of its 70th anniversary.
In his speech here,
Hisarcıklıoğlu pointed out that today is a historic day for the İstanbul
Chamber of Industry and said, “Our chambers are the main representative
offices. It is the authority to provide the highest quality service to our real
sector. Moreover, when it comes to İstanbul, all these issues are much more
important.”
Emphasizing the
importance of İstanbul in terms of industry, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “It is enough
to share a single data point. According to our industrial database, about 4,000
different industrial products are manufactured in our country. With 1,852 of
them, 46%, İstanbul is in the top 3 in terms of installed production capacity.”
Hisarcıklıoğlu said
that the İstanbul Chamber of Industry, developing and increasing its activities
every year, with its institutional capacity, has duly fulfilled its
responsibility to be the main representation mechanism of industrialists.
Stating that İSO's
research of the largest industrial companies is a unique reference source for
Turkey, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “This comprehensive study, which best determines
the situation of our industry, sheds light on everyone from the public to the
private sector and the academic world. İSO's work in the fields of innovation,
environment, technology, industrial zones and university-industry cooperation
also brings new horizons and opportunities to our industrialists. The trainings
and seminars you organize in many areas especially support the development and
growth of our SMEs. All this is a modern service concept befitting the chief
city of the industry. It is a vision work that aims at much higher quality
service to our industrialists.”
Hisarcıklıoğlu
emphasized that he is proud of the İstanbul Chamber of Industry, which fulfills
its great responsibility in the best way, its 70-year successful history and
performances, and congratulated the architects of this success, especially İSO
President Erdal Bahçıvan, the Management, the Assembly, the Secretary General
and its employees, and everyone past and present who has brought İSO to its
current position by their hardwork.