8 of Turkey’s top bathroom distributors
Published on 29/09/2015
Turkey’s growing construction industry – particularly booming hotel construction – is increasing demand in the bathrooms market, making it a great opportunity for international suppliers.
But as with any new market, where do you start getting your taps, showers, ceramics and other bathroom products into showrooms and projects? Here are profiles of Turkey’s main bathrooms distributors that can help you take that first step into the market.
Evdema
Evdema is a huge retailer and distributor specialising in bath, ceramic and kitchen products from around the world. The firm brings international products into every area of Turkey’s building sector – it works with architects and specifiers to get foreign brands into Turkish construction and interior projects. Evdema also sells direct to the public from eight stores in European and Asian Istanbul.
Ugur Yapi Market
Bathrooms and ceramics are a considerable part of what Ugur Yapi Market offers the Turkish buyer. Italian brands such as Bocchi are among those represented.
Koctas
More of a standard hypermarket than a distributor, Koctas is a huge retailer of various home and building products to Turkish consumers. They offer a wide range of foreign-made bathrooms from a number of suppliers, with stores and showrooms all over Turkey.
Yutas
Yutas is an importer and distributor of foreign-made bathroom products, representing brands like Hans Grohe, Kohler, Porcelanosa, Arcana and many more. The company could be a useful contact for anyone looking to capitalise on Istanbul’s hotel construction boom – Yutas is a longstanding supplier of various hotel chains in Turkey.
Intema
Intema mainly deals with large brands like Villeroy & Boch and Vitra, offering marketing and sales support to help international manufacturers succeed in the Turkish market. Its 20 retail stores serve more than 100,000 Turkish buyers every year.
Celik Yapi
Celik Yapi offers wholesale and retail services to international brands like Teka, Duravit and Huppe, selling from four locations in Istanbul.
Ceramic Concept
Once they make it through a challenging website intro page, Turkish buyers can use this web-only retailer to find a huge range of bathroom products from manufacturers around Europe. The company also offers its services to foreign suppliers on a distributor basis.
Advance Design
The Turkish distributor of many large brands like Keramag, Kolo, Ottone Meloda and others from Spain, Germany and Portugal. Advance Design puts foreign-made bathroom products into stores and projects around Turkey.
Looking to meet distributors like this face-to-face? The TurkeyBuild exhibitions bring tens of thousands of decision makers in the Turkish building sector to Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir every year. Visit the website to find out more about how the shows can get you new business in a new market.
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