The Project Of International Business Development Dialogue Between

Gaziantep and Gipuzkoa Regions

ETCF is funded by the European Union

GAZIANTEP-GIPUZKOA CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE INFO OFFICE

The promotion of the info offices made both by local media and email and fax alert systems

42 Questions were answered-28 from Gaziantep-2 from Istanbul-12 from Spain

10.000 booklets were produced for promoting the project itself

Info about both regions Distribution among organizations

in Turkey and Spain

23-27 March 2009 Meetings with departments of GCC Meeting with 16 local companies from

food, textile, chemistry and machinery 2 company visits

EXCHANGE WEEK FOR SPANISH SIDE

SPAIN INFO DAY-26th of March 2009,Gaziantep

Spanish Trade Attache EU Delegation Expert from Gipuzkoa Chamber DEIK Turkish-Spanish Business

Council Training by PEPSI CO Expert Manager 47 company reprsentatives attended

Exchange week in San Sebastian

3-8 May 2009 Meeting with 7 companies 2 factory visits Analyzing the departments of Gipuzkoa

Chamber

23-27th of May 2009

IV. International Expo Gateaway to Iraq Fair in Gaziantep

Spanish companies were promoted by brochures, CDS etc

Attended with a specially designed stand Around 200 people visited the stand B2B meetings with Iraq and Syrian

companies

11 June 2009-Gaziantep&Turkey Info Day

Turkish Trade Attache Mr. Bahadır Erkan, and Yasemin Korukcu from T.r Invesment Promotion and Support Agency Representative

GCC Expert A cooperation aggrement has signed Press conference

CONCRETE DEVELOPMENTS

•Spanish Crayne producer company JASO is negoating with a local company about producing craynes in Gaziantep together and market them to Middle-eastern markets

•A Company from Gaziantep in the process of analyzing the offer of a Spanish company for becoming their distributor in Turkey for sea food products

•A Spanish barcode company discussing the matters with an agro-food company for updating their barcode tracing system

•GCC is currently analyzing the feedback it received from its staff about his exchange week and his observations since the Chamber is also in the process of restructuring its departments.

EXPORT DESTINATION:SPAIN

Export Assistance service offered by ABİGEM to 9 local Gaziantep companies from textile and food sectors.

An expert will be assigned to work within the structure of that company

INTERNET SITES WWW.gaziantepgipuzkoa.org,

business cooperation databse

www.gto.org.tr and www. Camaragipuzkoa.es will be translated in Spanish and Turkish