BİGA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Biga Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a professional
institution that has a legal entity was established in 1973 in accordance with
the provisions of chambers and commodity exchanges law numbered 5590. The aims
of our chamber are to meet the members needs, facilitate their commercial
activities, provide the development of the profession in accordance with the
general interests, make dominant the honesty and confidence between the members
and in their relations with the public, protect the professional discipline.
We do not have any documents but the fact that our
district, in 1930s, had a chamber of commerce and industry is known from the
documents and receipts.
The founder of our chamber was Hüseyin R. Uysal, the
first chairman of council was Tayyip Demirtaş and the first chairman of board
of directors was Tevfik Emin Başarır.
The activities of our chamber first took place in rented
buildings in Bayram Street and Çan Avenue.
The construction of three-storey commerce building was
started in 1985 and finished in 1989. Since 1986, it carries out its activities
there. Its ground floor has been turned into a local for our members.
Biga Chamber of Commerce and Industry is still managed by
the board of directors containing 7 members and assembly of chamber containing
22 members.
Our chamber has over 1625 registered members from 9
profession groups.
Biga Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a
long-established institution of South Marmara, which has a great agriculturel
and industrial development. Biga, the historical-economical center of
Çanakkale, is the center of regional development. There are 40 thousand people
in the town center and its total population is 85 thousand with the villages
and towns.
Turkey’s economic centers Istanbul and Northwest Marmara
is no longer come to the point of obstruction and Biga has drawn the attention
of national and international financiers. This rapid change, particularly in
regional strategic plans, urgently needs a planned development without bringing
agriculturel and environmental problems.
In this sense, Biga, whose 47 percent area is forest, is
Turkey’s important milk, meat, rice, vegetable and fruit center with 107
villages and 5 towns. This situation has lead to its known as Holland of
Turkey.
Since 1973, Biga leads regional economy. It has 9
profession groups and totally 1625 registered members. In the last 5 years, the
increase in the number of members about 20 percent and in the number of
institutional membership 30 percent are a clear indication of regional
development.
In recent years, İÇDAŞ which is in the Turkey’s top ten
ranking, with the investments as well as energy, iron, steel, shipbuilding,
port and cement and DOĞTAŞ, with its rapidly rising, takes place in the first
500 largest companies of Turkey. It preferred Biga for moduler forniture and
bedding factory investments. Currently, Biga Industrial Zone that has 19 local and
foreign industrial plants with the total specified production, is the sign of
development stage.
Two big ports and Karabiga Port, which are belong to
private sector, meet today’s needs in marine transportation.
As Biga Chamber of Commerce and Industry, South Marmara’s
for both economic and social-culturel promotion, “Biga Chamber of Commerce and
Industry Festival” plays a larger role with each passing year. It is carried
out in an area of 20 thousand square meters of indoor. Local and national entrepreneurs
promote their corporate identities, products and services in the closed fair
area that belongs to Biga Municipality. Participants may establish 1000 fair
platforms and every substructure facilities are possible.
As Biga Chamber of Commerce and Industry, we are the
founding partner/shareholder of these following organizations.
·
Biga Organized Industrial Zone,
·
Biga Private Education and Health Services Tourism Food
Industry Trade Inc. (Kırkgeçit Thermal Facility),
·
South Marmara Chamber and Exchanges Power Association
Inc. (GÜMOB Inc.),
·
Customs and Tourism Enterprises Trade Inc. (GTI),
·
Biga Chamber of Commerce and Industry also, member of
TR22 South Marmara Development Agency (GMKA).
