Strategic role

Turkey is one of the key countries that the organisers of the Ferroforma-Bricorama trade fair in Bilbao, Spain, are particularly keen to target. Among the advantages they point to are the country’s strategically interesting geographical location and its resulting role as the gateway to the Near and Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe.At the same time the fair organisers rate markets such as America and Canada as deserving of high priority. A delegation has visited these countries and spoken with associations on both the retail and manufacturing sides. Ferroforma-Bricoforma is due to be held from 12 – 15 March 2013.The latest issue of the trade magazine DIY International devotes a country report to Turkey. It includes a number of contributions on the way this market is developing (see below: Other articles on this topic).