The path…

Life …
Sometimes all the negativity surrounds us as if hand in hand. As if to say, “It’s dark everywhere”…
You look at the US market, 23% decline…
You turn to China and it doesn’t work, the Gulf market is not satisfying, things are not going well in Europe.
While all this is going on, guns are going off right next to you.
While all this is happening abroad, is the situation different in the Turkish economy?
Unfortunately…
From diesel to electricity, from water to minimum wage, costs are rising and rising.
Forestry fees and license fees are keeping us awake at night.
As we close 2023, there are no good signals for 2024 and 2025.
A friend of mine who does business with the sector summarized the situation in one sentence: “For the first time, I have seen marble producers doing cost accounting.”
Short and concise, this is the picture …
The interviews with UMGG Director General Shirley Chu and iMiB President Rüstem Çetinkaya, which you can find in our magazine, reveal this situation.
So what are we going to do?
What we admire most about people in this sector is their ability to adapt very quickly when the rules of the game change.
Just as the 2008 crisis that shook the world economy was overcome, just as we woke up from the pandemic nightmare, just as alternatives were put in place when the block market contracted, this sector will find a way. It will read the market better, plan its investments more accurately, do cost accounting better, and try to sell more value-added products.
It is one of our favorite sayings …
The moment of darkness is the closest moment to light.
As the natural stone sector, we will either find a way or open a way together.
As long as we don’t have someone scoring a goal for uslike the news about imported stones or the exorbitant hikes in license fees!