Our History

Our brand was founded in 1972, and it is today a family business that is in the process of being transferred to the third generation. It is built upon the paramount inheritance of Turkish culture in knitted garment manufacturing, which is today one of the largest destinations for garment and fabric sourcing in the world. Specializing in knitted garments, Koton Eksport has the professional capacity of integrating this cultural heritage into contemporary clothing designs. Since the end of 1970s, Koton Eksport’s creativity in designs and proficiency in quality has become an industry standard.

Our Business Values

Without doubt, the core business value of Koton Eksport is the overall quality of the end-products, supported with active supply chain and high engagement of employees. The quality of our products is stems from the high-quality material that is bulk bought from the top fabric suppliers, and the professional expertise practiced by the accurate and cautious knitting processes. Our company’s rigorous pursuit of integrating technological innovation to production lines and solid employee productivity couples with its quest for expansion of quality.

Our company has a strong organizational structure, a robust responsiveness duration, a rapid lead-time in delivering orders. The turnaround times of Koton Eksport are reduced to significantly competitive durations, as fast as to four weeks, which is not an added value but an operational standard in Koton Eksport. In our organizational culture as well as our partnerships, we value integrity, reliability and authenticity.

Our Mission

Our mission is to demonstrate quality through widely accessible, well-made, durable products, designed to be used and loved for a long time for the end customers of our partners. We value the brands of our partners as our own. It is our pride to put more effort every day into increasing the quality of our processes and products, and to increase our pool of loyal and long-term partnerships with those brands that have the market leadership in the international scale. Further, with a close attention to new designs, new colour plates, new applications in printing and embroidery and new fabrics, it is our mission to offer our customers the opportunity of following the latest trends prior to their seasonal launch.

Our Vision

The quality of our products and partnerships, the agility of our responsiveness and the flawlessness of our lead times are, without doubt, supported with our immaculate operations and company functions. Our operations team consists of a young and dynamic team committed to creative management and continuous technological advancement. Our vision is to further minimize the lead time, to increase our production scale and capacity, to develop our collections, to keep following the fashion trends of the upcoming generations, and to expand to new markets in the global scale.

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

150 EMPLOYEES

15 MILLION TURNOVER RATES

350-400.000 MONTHLY CAP

MINIMUM QUANTITY PER STYLE 1000

MINIMUM QUANTITY PER COLOR 500

OUTSOURCING PRODUCTION ANNUAL CAPACITY 4 MILLION PIECES A YEAR

4-7 WEEKS PRODUCTION LEAD TIME

IN-HOUSE FACILITY COVERING 5000 M2

PRODUCT LINES / MATERIALS / SEGMENTS

Our Segments

For our in-house designed collections, we focus on women’s wear with knitted garments. However, as our portfolio with a wide scope of long-term collaborations with international brands, we are eminently experienced in fashionable men’s wear and outerwear, extensive children collections and housedress product lines. In Koton Eksport, we also offer design-tailored nightwear and complementary garments, as well as t-shirts, polo shirts, jogging suits, stretch tights, outerwear, lingerie and sportswear tailored to the client’s needs, preferences, taste and market.

Our Production Departments

Koton Eksport offers a one-stop quality shopping experience for its clients. For a complete quality cycle, Koton Eksport holds a variety of production departments within its scope, with the aim of providing its international clients with the utmost service, loyalty and agility. Our production departments include modelling, sampling, cutting, sewing, ironing, quality control and packing: a full cycle for the absolute satisfaction of our customers. However, for our clients who seek to use partial services, Koton Eksport is committed to tailoring the package services to the client’s needs.

Our Materials

Koton Eksport has the human workforce, technological and spacial capacities, experience and efficiency of conduct in a wide scope of materials. Koton’s designers are experts in working with any kind of cotton and mixed fabric available, both natural and synthetic. Our team’s original collections and customized garment lines use cotton and cotton blends with viscose, modal, polyester and elastane, viscose and blends such as viscose elastane, viscose wool elastane, viscose modal elastane, Modal Jersey, yarn-dyed stripes with lurex, pointelle, rib knits, interlocks, jacquards, polar fleece, velour and pique.

CUSTOMER PORTFOLIO

Italy

Miroglio Group: Oltre, Elena Miro, Luisa Viola, Motivi, Fiorella Rubino, Diana Gallesi

France

ETAM, Burton, Maison123, Kaporal, Sud Express, NafNaf, Damart, Leclerc

Germany

Bon-prix, QVC

Spain

Pedro del Hierro, Cortefiel,

Denmark

Zizzi, Cristian Berg, Free Quent

Turkey

Mudo

Belgium

Lola Liza, Paprika, Cassis

Israel

YANGA

COMPLIANCE STANDARDS AND CSR

Our Dedication to Labour Equality

Anyone in the international garment industry is aware of its perils in terms of unethical conduct, unequal labour environments and gender equality. Koton Eksport’s approach toward sustaining equality and sustainability in every standard in its company functions is not limited to compliance with the Turkish Labour Act’s obligations. On the contrary, Koton Eksport is dedicated to ensuring a sustainable working environment for all its employees.

Audit Standards

Being committed to ethical standards above the norm for the garment industry, Koton Eksport is dedicated to the international audit standards. The company is keen over being issued to regular audits by independent firms in order to ensure compliance not only with the labour laws, but also with health and safety regulations and international standards.

Our Compliance Standard

BSCI- Business Social Compliance Initiative Sedex

OCS- Organic Content Standards

RCS- Recycled Claim Standard

GOTS- Global Organic Textile Standard

GRS- Global Recycled Standard