Place of Turkish textile firms in global competition and an application in textile firms in Aydın

SUMMARYGlobalism can be regarded as the concept which anticipates the betterrecognation of blief and moral values in different countries and the increase ofinternational relationships regarding the economic, political, demografficaldifferences between the countries. Today, the concept of competition comes out withthe fact of globalism. With this competition concept, goods and services areproduced proper to the wishes of the costumers , and products? life extention becomeshorter gradually.Firms? taking the superiority of competition, both national andinternational, depends on meeting the needs of consumers in a different andeconomical way from the other firms do.Today, It is possible to say that the textile and ready-made clothing firms,both in Turkey and in world, are in a great competition. Because the textile andready-made clothing firms are ones of the most important sectors which supply acontribution to the development of the country with its opportinaties of import andtax.In Turkey, there are some conditions which affect the development of textilesector in Aydın and its districts. It is necessary to change these conditions , even ifnot changed, at least it should be decreased to the minimum and by this way thesector?s development should be incited.Also the opportuanity of qualified workforce employment must be increasedand by realizing the cooperation of university and industry it should be given chanceto these sectors to be affected from each other.In this work, competetion levels of textile firms, both in national andinternational platforms, in Aydın and its districts are studied and their cases are fixed.For this aim, an area study was done on the textile firms in Aydın and in its districts.As a conclusion, such factors like not being employed of Professionalmanagers in Aydın, high costs of workforce, of transportation, of raw material, ofenrgy and of SSK( Social Insurance Association) Premium, cheap but poor qualityproducts? coming on the market with the ending of quata , production with traditionalways and unsufficient work of modernization in the sector make textile firms inAydın and its districts stay behind to the textile firms in Turkey and in the world.