Focusing on Working Efficiently, Struggling Against the Inflation and Financial Stability

• 26.10.2018
• Archive

As Istanbul Chamber of Industry Board of Directors, our priority target is to strengthen our industry and move our production and economy to the league of developed countries. We are perceiving our ICI Assembly as the most important support and solution source in the works which we will carry out in line with this aim. Starting with this understanding, in the new term in which we have taken office, we are taking various steps for much effective and efficient working of our Chamber’s Assembly.

As the first step, “Assembly Work Groups” has been established to form opinions and provide solutions for our problems to Board of Directors in some main subjects concerning our industry and manufacturing sector. We saw that there was a highly active participation and contribution by our Assembly members for the work groups established within this framework. The excitement we saw in work groups indicates that these groups in this term will make crucial contributions to Chamber works.

“Total Fight Against Inflation Programme was announced by Mr. Berat Albayrak, the Minister of Treasury and Finance on 9 October 2018 in a press release. As ICI, we expressed that we support this fight with both the announcements we have made to the public and with the action plan we have taken institutionally.

Within this scope, we announced the fight against inflation programme in detail to our members by taking action with our umbrella organization TOBB. We decided that we will apply a reduction by 10% which will take into effective as of the date of 15 October 2018 for the prices of document, service and report which we have provided to our members as ICI.

As industrialists, we have understood the importance of “financial stability”which we have dwelt on and considered as to be preserved in recent years. We are bringing up the events happening in the financing world to our Assembly as much as possible and we are mentioning about our expressions within this period. We brought Adnan Bali, Türkiye İş Bankası Chief Executive Officer as a guest together with our Assembly by carrying out our September Assembly with the main agenda “The Importance of Financial Stability in terms of our Economy, A Viewpoint a New Understanding to the Relations between the Financing World and Real Sector”. We had opportunity to touch upon all cases which have been happening between real sector and financing world in details. You can find the reflections concerning this subject with its all details in the following pages

Erdal Bahçıvan
Istanbul Chamber of Industry
Chairman