Şahap Aktaş, president of the board of directors of Aktaş Holding:  "There are great opportunities for our businessman in the Latin American countries."

Şahap Aktaş, president of the board of directors of Aktaş Holding, which is the company the biggest in Europe and the 3rd biggest company of the world in air suspension bellows production told the investment opportunities and advantages in Brazil in the "Latin America meets Anatolia" meeting, organized by the foreign economic relations board. 

Aktaş Holding, which has production facilities across the world, the products of which are sold in more than 80 countries, which has the widest product range in the independent spare part group in her organization, combining the global confidence with local sincerity, leader in Turkey and among in the first three companies in the world in the air suspension bellows sector, shared the investments she made in Brazil with the businessman who wants to make investment in the region.

A great number of businessman and representatives of foreign countries participated in the first part of the meeting, performed in the Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which will be organized for 2 days with the hosting of Bursa and İnegör Chambers of Commerce and Industry by the foreign economic relations board. Making the opening speech of the meeting, Ali Hazır, deputy president of the board of directors of Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that "The interest by the foreign investors is increasing every day in Bursa, one of the most important industrial zones of Turkey. This is a very important indicator for the export target of 500 billion dollars of the country for 2023. Even though the Latin American countries are far, we wait for the entrepreneurs in those regions to Bursa for investment. As the Latin soccer players are happy, so the Latin industrialists will be happy."

Speaking after Ali Hazır, Eser Olcay Avunduk, deputy president of DEIK Turkish - Mexican business council and Cüney Akdemir, member of the board of directors of DEIK Turkish - Mexican business council mentioned that Mexico and Brazil continue the rapid growth and the raising economy and the commercial environment predicted to be developed take very much attraction recently in the world.

Şahap Aktaş, president of the board of directors of Aktaş Holding, "The businessman not afraid of the challenges will have great successes in Latin America."

Şahap Aktaş, president of the board of directors of Aktaş Holding, based on Bursa gave important information to the businessman who wishes to invest in the region in his presentation called "A success story in Brazil". Şahap Aktaş, stating that Aktaş Holding signs world wide investments with the philosophy of being close to the customers and the market said that "In this scope, we decided to invest in Brazil in the visits we made in the Latin American countries. With regards to this decision, we see that bureaucracy is slow when we started the studies rapidly. However a businessman should never give up. No matter how slow is the bureaucracy, if you make cooperation with the correct people in the region and if you can get the information from commercial attache, you can have result fastly with the same ratio. By this way, we, as Aktaş Holding, made our investment in a short time. Now, we make production in a closed area of 4.000 m2 with 60 persons since 2009. We started to make export to a lot of Latin American countries like Chile and Argentina thanks to the investment we made to the region. This number is increasing every day. We engaged in competition with our global competitors with this investment we made. By this way, we eliminated the monopolies in Latin American countries."Şahap Aktaş, to a question that "Why did you select Brazil especially, for investment" stated that Brazil is at the front among the developing countries and completed his speech by saying that "Brasil catched a growth rate of 7.5% in 2010. This growth rate is really important. In addition to this, there is a consumar mass close to 200 million people. They have an automotive industry, becoming giant. 3.6 million automotive is produced annually. They can meet their own energy needs. At the same time, they have a progress similar to Turkey as economical progress."

At the last part of the meeting, H.E Jaime Garcia Amaral, Ambassador of Mexico, H. E. Luis Palma, Ambassador of Chile, Borys Mejía Aguirre Commercial Consultant of Equador, Lalia Gonzalez Koç, Istanbul honorary consul of Dominic Republic, Sibel Sabah, Ankara honorary consul of Paraguag gave information about investment opportunities in the countries they represent.