Page 6 - Gulipek Sustainability Report 2021

A MESSAGE FROM OUR
CHAIRMAN

We have prepared our 2 main 2 transition
collections, which we started working on in
2021 with our Spanish consultant and which are
almost 100% sustainable, more in line with market
demands, more sensitive to the environment and
more appropriate for the sustainability headings.
We added new markets to our existing portfolio,
particularly Japan, Canada, and Australia, and had
a productive and delightful year. We realized much
more than our targeted growth with the right
collection, fast service, and the right timing,
Under the leadership of our General Production
Director, we initiated a project called “suggestion
ALİ GÜLGEÇ of the month”, in which we evaluated and put into
Chairman practice the business development suggestions of
our teammates in each department in all factories
with the topics of energy, water saving, and OHS.
As we left 2021 behind, once again struggling With our projects, energy-saving efforts, and Higg
with the difficult conditions created by the Index scores, we managed to be one of the best in
pandemic, we better perceived the importance of our region.
sustainability with environmental impacts such as
the decrease in water resources, extreme weather In the reporting year, we achieved a 54% growth
events, and natural disasters, which are a result in our exports, an average of 18.6 million euros in
of the effects of climate change. Disruptions in total turnover, and 31% growth on a euro basis.
the supply chain and logistics problems, especially We aim to grow by 40% in our exports and 30%
as a result of quarantines around the world, in our total turnover in foreign currency in 2022
emphasized the importance of proper supply with the commissioning of additional air dyeing
management. We set our goals and took swift machines (air-jet) in the dyeing-finishing section
actions acknowledging that the business world is and additional ring and ply twisting machines in the
evolving and moving forward with environmental, yarn section, which are among our 2022 targets
social, and corporate governance at its core, and whose budget has been approved

Furthermore, the year was also marked by rising In addition to these investments, with our new
inflation around the world. The impact of the spinning factory, which we aim to commission
increases in global inflation and energy costs, in June 2023, we will get closer to our export
which we expect to continue for a while, has increase target and our company’s goal of entering
been mitigated by the project titles mentioned the “2025 Turkey top 1000 industrial enterprises
in the report. In the first quarter of the reporting list”
year, we completed all the investments we had
decided to undertake, especially in the areas of With the awareness that the most important
renovation, energy saving, and recycling. Using our power that will carry our company Gülipek to the
investments amounting to 1.2 million euros, which future is our colleagues, I would like to thank our
we realized mainly in our dyeing and finishing customers, business partners, Gülipek team and
facility, we have increased our sustainability all other stakeholders who have not left us alone
efforts in the areas of quality and energy saving. in this process. I hope you enjoy reading our 2nd
Moreover, we have taken an important step as a Sustainability Report.
company to meet the need for renewable energy
sources with our rooftop Solar Energy System Regards,
projects, which we received licenses in 2021 and
plan to commission in the 2nd half of next year.
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