The 4th attendance has been realized to the SIAL Food Exhibition, one of the largest exhibition worldwide, that is organized in Paris, France.
During the exhibition, Balparmak executives met the representatives from numerous companies worldwide, initiating activities towards more effective promotion of the Balparmak products in international markets. Export operations started with the potential customers and reached to up and running level in a very short time.
Future Marketing activities and product developments will be shared with customers all around the world. (Hall: 11.2 Booth No. G-021)
Balparmak meets all friends from the sector at Apimondia which held for the 41st edition of the renowned international Congress on September 15 to 20, 2009 in Montpellier, South of France.
It is very pleasant to say "hello" to all the actors in the world of beekeeping to share, to exchange and to discuss the challenges and the issues of beekeeping at the international level. Beekeepers, technicians, scientists, suppliers and the media actively participate in this conference, which is a unique opportunity to share knowledge and ideas. We propose a high-quality scientific programme, which concentrates on the studies of international researchers, and includes activity areas within demonstrations in the heart of the ApiExpo exhibition. Beyond the exchanges of knowledge, Apimondia is important for having business cooperation with the key players. Bees are one of the primary factor for the reproduction of plants by pollenization. Therefore, beekeeping contributes over $5 billion to agricultural production despite its relatively small share (1%) within the agriculture industry. On the other hand, with the global crisis bringing a large number of industries nearly into a halt, food industry is considered as one of the luckiest industries.
Balparmak Chairman, Ozen Altiparmak, states that Balparmak has been affected from the low yield especially resulted from climatic conditions in 2008, rather than from the financial crisis, and added, "Our company has anyhow overcome this drawback in 2008, realizing its sales targets, and easily realized the targeted sales figures in the first quarter of 2009. Aside from the raw material shortage in 2008, the demand shrinkage in Europe and America arising from the financial crisis was another factor affecting our export figures. If the positive movements in the foreign exchange parities gives way to the formation of more competitive prices, this would fuel our export performance even further."
Balparmak achieves a more balanced financial structure each year by the addition of the operational profits to the assets. Ozen Altiparmak also points out that they have not been affected directly by the current crisis, thanks to their equity-based financial management approach, and adds, "Our company mainly works with local distributors and chain stores, and has managed to keep its risk within acceptable levels by revising its warrant system with the distributors and rearranging the working conditions with other companies. Moreover, costing problems have been prevented through effective inventory management and the cost-saving precautions. Our company, placing emphasis on branding and never compromising from quality, aims to get over this crisis with increased domestic sales and export figures, as well as with a stronger structure."
The 7th attendance is going to be realized at the ANUGA 2009 Food Exhibition, the largest food exhibition in the World. Which is biennially organized in Cologne, Germany.
Turkey is the partner country for the upcoming Anuga that has a high importance for Turkish Companies as well as Balparmak.
Future Marketing activities and product developments will be shared with customers all around the world.
(Hall: 11.2 Booth No. G-021)
The 7th attendance is going to be realized at the ANUGA 2009 Food Exhibition, the largest food exhibition in the World. Which is biennially organized in Cologne, Germany.
Turkey is the partner country for the upcoming Anuga that has a high importance for Turkish Companies as well as Balparmak.
Future Marketing activities and product developments will be shared with customers all around the world.
(Hall: 11.2 Booth No. G-021)
Balparmak, who managed to grow 75% in the first quarter of 2009 with respect to the same term of 2008, despite the global crisis, aims to broaden its honey market with new investments.
According to TurkStat data, the honey industry has a volume of $300 million in the Turkish agricultural products market, which has a total volume of $30 billion. Bees are one of the primary factor for the reproduction of plants by pollenization. Therefore, beekeeping contributes over $5 billion to agricultural production despite its relatively small share (1%) within the agriculture industry. On the other hand, with the global crisis bringing a large number of industries nearly into a halt, food industry is considered as one of the luckiest industries.
Balparmak Chairman, Ozen Altiparmak, states that Balparmak has been affected from the low yield especially resulted from climatic conditions in 2008, rather than from the financial crisis, and added, "Our company has anyhow overcome this drawback in 2008, realizing its sales targets, and easily realized the targeted sales figures in the first quarter of 2009. Aside from the raw material shortage in 2008, the demand shrinkage in Europe and America arising from the financial crisis was another factor affecting our export figures. If the positive movements in the foreign exchange parities gives way to the formation of more competitive prices, this would fuel our export performance even further."
Balparmak achieves a more balanced financial structure each year by the addition of the operational profits to the assets. Ozen Altiparmak also points out that they have not been affected directly by the current crisis, thanks to their equity-based financial management approach, and adds, "Our company mainly works with local distributors and chain stores, and has managed to keep its risk within acceptable levels by revising its warrant system with the distributors and rearranging the working conditions with other companies. Moreover, costing problems have been prevented through effective inventory management and the cost-saving precautions. Our company, placing emphasis on branding and never compromising from quality, aims to get over this crisis with increased domestic sales and export figures, as well as with a stronger structure."
Project, 2009-ongoing, A. E. Sunay (Project Partner - LEAR of the Company), "APIFRESH" Developing European standards for bee pollen and royal jelly: quality, safety and authenticity. Seventh framework programme, theme capacities. European Union.
Project, 2007-ongoing, A. E. Sunay (Project Manager), "Determining the Crystallization Properties of Honey from Different Geographical and Botanical Origins and Evaluating as Creamed Honey ", TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB.
Project, 2004-2007, A. E. Sunay (Project Manager), "Determination of Residues, Adulteration, and Origin in Honey According to Geographical Regions", TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB.
