1960
ABOUT
Gelal Socks is a privately owned company, established in 1966, presently managed by the third generation of its founders.
Proven to globally lead the creation and development of all types of socks, Gelal demonstrates exemplary flexibility, producing a wide range of socks from technical or end-use purpose-created socks with specific functions and properties, to exciting lifestyle socks, even basic socks for men, ladies and children!
MANUFACTURING SOCKS
SINCE 1966
Key Milestones
1960
1966
Establishment of GELAL as a socks manufacturing and trading company
1983
First exports to Europe
1987
Establishment of new, owned manufacturing premises in Istanbul
1988
Start of exports to the U.S.
1989
Establishment of own liaison office in U.S. to support sales
1990
Shift of strategy to focusing on fewer yet larger accounts; consolidation of Client Base
2004
Relocation to new, owned, purpose-built manufacturing premises in Istanbul
2006
Substantial investment to increase the manufacturing capacity especially on football socks
2009
Further focus on consolidation of the Client Base
2012
Start of new purpose-built manufacturing premises at Cankiri (near Ankara)
Certified at GOLD level according to the United States Green Buildings Council
(USGBC) Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) “Green” Standard
2012
Istanbul Factory: Remodelling all areas to better meet Lean Manufacturing standards and maximise efficiencies
2016
Celebrated 50 years of passion and innovation …
2017
Construction of new, owned, purpose-built manufacturing premises, at Cankiri,
operating under a self-invented disruptive workflow process with spectacular
efficiency result
Gelal has registered 3 applications pending PATENT:
• Two applications for novel material use, to achieve ultra-high grip properties in different types of socks (without increasing the product cost).
• One application for a novel workflow process that drastically reduces: the consumption of natural resources, energy, product cycle time, costs and CO₂ emissions.
Gelal in numbers
Manufacturing space in m2
50,000
Employees
1,000
Knitting machines
1,000
Capacity (mil. pairs)
50
Capacity 2024 (mil. pairs)
50
Sock pairs manufactured until now:
Added Values
Shaping the future of socks
FOCUS ON PRODUCT
When the world-class know-how of Gelal is combined with the Global power of its Clients, extraordinary things can happen…! Gelal is coming together with its Clients to test the boundaries of technology and make quantum leaps in what socks will look and be like in the future.
CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND PEOPLE
Gelal is a privately owned, independent, financially sound corporation.
The Top-Level Management & Directors is a healthy combination of owners’ family members and seasoned external Managers, ensuring coverage of all corporate key operational functions.
LEADERSHIP AREAS & INITIATIVES
Gelal sees socks manufacturing as a process to be disrupted. Gelal and its Clients have a shared passion for innovation and creativity, for leading change and finding what is next.
Gelal demonstrates contribution to world-leading advancements in machinery, re-engineering of workflow processes, manufacturing operating models and monitoring systems.
THE ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF GELAL
The primary responsibility of Gelal is towards its Customers and its Business Partners, to meet their needs, their expectations and help them materialise their strategies and visions.Everybody at Gelal, staff, managers, directors and owners, constantly strive to increase efficiencies and sustain reasonable and at all times competitive price-points, for the Clients’ benefit.
SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Sustainability
The ability to maintain rates of renewable resource harvest, pollution creation, and non-renewable resource depletion that can be continued indefinitely.
Economic Sustainability
The ability to support a defined level of economic production indefinitely.
Social Sustainability
The ability of a social system, such as a country, to function at a defined level of social well-being indefinitely.
Certifications
We believe in continuous improvement and we are determined to be competitive by applying controlling and quality systems. For this reason, Gelal is participating in a number of Compliance Platforms to keep up and improve our sustainability and our principles.
All the effort and persistence for continuous improvement has been rewarded with a number of certifications, among them the most important are the following:
- ISO Certifications
- ORGANIC COTTON CERTIFICATES
- Oeko – Tex Standard 100
- Workplace Standards
CONTACT
Headquarters Address:
Akcaburgaz Mahallesi,
117 Sokak No. 2,
34500 Esenyurt, Istanbul,
Turkey
+90 212 8866535
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