The maritime-oriented luxury Italian brand Paul & Shark which established in1882, entered to the Turkish market 20 years ago with Novita textile. The brand adopted a new model with a new concept. They shut down the small sized shops and decided to continue with larger sized stores. With this direction the famous Italian brand, opened its second store in Gaziantep.

The concept shows clearly the brand's style. We have applied the new concept successfully. Instead of the domestic projects we're working on, we are proud to be one of the global suppliers of the brand. We have started prepare store project, production and implementation plans of Alexandria and Cairo Stores at Egypt.

Since 2001, Retail Days became the greatest business world organization in Turkey as well as one of the prestigious organizations in the international arena.

Kartes Ltd has been acting as sponsor at this important organization since 2001. Under the roof of Retail Days, International İstanbul Retail Conference and İstanbul Retail Fair are being realized during two days, where expert speakers from Turkey and around the world bring the latest trends, new applications and the newest dimensions of retail world in a wide range to the agenda.

In Retail Days, foreign investors and companies serving the retail sector form the foundations of long-term relations with the sector.

Thousands of top-level executives participate in Retail Days each year. It is the greatest platform where information is shared and produced in the sector, different views come together and unlimited collaboration opportunities are created.

Retail Days will take place between November 26-27 2014, at Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center, İstanbul.

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Skechers entered the Turkish retail market via Olka Spor. The brand opened its 4th store at Ozdilek Shopping Mall, Istanbul which opened on September. All Shop-fitting equipment produced by Kartes Ltd and successfully implemented to the store.

Olka Spor named as the best distributor of year at the Skechers Global Conference at US which 42nd president of US also attended. We congratulate our client about this success and looking for forward to continue our business relation further. Thank you to everyone who contributed and are going through.

Turkey Exporters Assembly (TIM) prepared a new logo that will be placed on the goods exported from Turkey, which was introduced with the slogan "Discover the power of Turkey"

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, introduced the new logo and the slogan under the leadership of Turkey Exporters Assembly. The Slogan means discover the power. The products that produced in Turkey will have this logo and people will understand with this logo that the good produced in Turkey. Turkey's new logo and brand new slogan will make Turkey more institutionalized in world trade.

SELF-CONFIDENCE SYMBOL OF TURKEY

The new logo and slogan, designed asTurkey's 'self-confidence output' whch is designed after a long-term study on the design that the advertising agencies, businessman, politicians, exporters contributed and commented for.Turkey's trade mark logo developed in 1.5 year period and design made by Saffron Brand Consultants.

Aldo hold the leadership at international retail shoes market within over 1800 store at 87 different countries. Turkey is one of the fast growing markets for the brand. The brand met with fashion lovers at Nisantasi City’s Shopping Mall with Kartes spirit.

For 40 years the brand is the best journey friend for the women’s with shoes, bags and accessories. The brand will give service to the clients with a 115 m2 store. We are very proud that we added our portfolio such a global brand and hope to continue to work together for future projects. Our next project will be Ankamall Store at Ankara.

The estimation of total rentable area until the end of 2016 is 13, 5 million meter square. According to the reports published at the end of September 2014, Istanbul is the city which has still most rentable area 2014. At the Anatolian side there are 30, at the European side there are 82 shopping malls. With 112 shopping mall there is 4.3 million rentable areas. Out of 16 stores, 7 of them opened this year in Istanbul.

‘Till the end of the year 10 more shopping mall can be opened.’

Eva & Akademetre Company estimates 10 more shopping mall till the end of the year. This refers to 26 shopping mall in total which is the %40 of this year’s estimation. If the percentage compared with the previous year there is a decrease because the realization was in average is %60. The main reason is postpone of the companies, the change of the investment functions or the cancelation of the project. There are 8 shopping mall that totally closed from March 2014. The most important reason is stagnation. Krea Consultancy estimates 20-25 new shopping mall openings for the next year.

We continued to commit our projects with Marks & Spencer in different areas, which we are global supplier for the brand. Instead of the Akasya Shopping Mall Store in Turkey, we have f supplied partially equipment to Yas Island Store and Mall of Emirates Store at U.A.E, all equipment at Port Baku Store at Azerbaijan, Landmark Mall Store at Qatar, Vesna and Vegas Stores at Russia and finally this month we have supplied Nakheel Mall Store at Saudi Arabia which franchise rights belongs to Fawaz Alhokair. On the other hand Marks & Spencer UK specially visited us and they invited our company for the global UK Tenders, which we are glad to participate.

We have applied to FSC certificate, took the audit and became more sensitive to our environment, to our future and World.

Wooden products manufacturers, distributors, environmental and civil society organizations which working on human rights, met in California in 1993, launched an initiative, sustainable forest management.

FSC - The Forest Stewardship Council (Forest Stewardship Council) is an international non-profit organization and based on the membership which connect people for to prevent from bad forest policies and to share the right forest management system. Consumer can decide easily when they want to purchase timber wood or paper product when they see the label of FSC on the product. Instead of the wood, timber and similar products, paper and paper products (newspapers, magazines, cardboard boxes, paper packaging, etc.), all kinds of furniture, musical instruments, wooden toys, such as items made of wood can be certificated under FSC-CoC. The FSC-CoC stamp shows that the wood supplied from a forest that covered with a sustainable management and it’s confirmed by an independent board. FSC Certificate, is a certificate which given to the wooden product producers, operators, suppliers or modifiers with the audit which handled by independent audit institutions.

FSC became an international organization by opening regional offices in Asia, Europe, North and South America. Headquarter of FSC is in Bonn, Germany.

Since we are active in shop-fitting market we have finished more than 2.500 stores. But we have written some of them to the wall with golden letters. Zorlu Center Beymen Store opened the doors to the customer in 2013 September and they celebrated the first year of the store. The Store designed by Swiss architecture company design Michel Group. Production and installation of the shop-fitting equipment and furniture handle by our company with the control of Burcu Yapi. The store, which settled on a 10.000 m2 are had welcome too many client since the opening date. We congratulate the brand and thank you to everyone who helped at the opening process.

Organized annually in different countries, 110 top-level executives, general managers, CEO’s and company owners of the retail world gather abroad for the Retail Leaders Conference.

As a first-class organization, the conference ensures a warm atmosphere through its unlimited communication and network opportunities. With its vision improving conference content devised specifically for the leaders, participants attain information and insights they need to sustain a valuable competitive advantage.

Retail Leaders Conference, which took place in Zurich, Lisbon, Berlin, Cannes, Budapest, Barcelona, Munich and Rome in previous years, has very important contributions to the sector as one of the most prestigious organizations not only for the sector, but also for Turkey. In its 9th year, the conference was held on May 29-31, in Moscow.