Women entrepreneurs, who started exporting with UPS's Women Exporter Program (KIP), export to nearly 70 countries from Iceland to Canada. The USA ranks first in the ranking of the countries to which the most exports are made. UPS helps women expand their businesses in global markets.
The global leader in the logistics industry, UPS (NYSE:UPS), carries women entrepreneurs all over the world with the Women Exporter Program (KIP), organized throughout Turkey and carried out to support the development of export skills of business owner women.
UPS helps women entrepreneurs overcome the challenges of exporting such as supply chain processes, customs regulations, digitalization and access to international trade opportunities. Thanks to the program, which focuses on increasing the access of women exporters to global markets by identifying the barriers, women entrepreneurs; It exports to nearly 70 countries in North America, Europe, Far East, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. The country to which they export the most is USA, followed by England, Canada, Germany and Australia respectively.
Only 17 percent of women have access to opportunities
Burak Kılıç, General Manager of UPS Turkey, said, “Only 17 percent of women in Turkey have access to a variety of opportunities for their emerging ventures. This rate is well below the average rates of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Studies show that when women entrepreneurs export, their businesses are more productive, employ more workers and sell more. Women entrepreneurs also develop their communities. Despite this, only 15 percent of business owner women export. Many women do not have the resources, knowledge and support needed to start business ventures. Women's initiatives are a huge potential that we have not been able to reveal sufficiently both globally and in our country. Only with the production and imagination of women can we reveal the true potential of our country. With the Women Exporter Program we have implemented, it is possible for more women entrepreneurs to do cross-border businesses, accelerate economic growth, create new jobs in the market, and much more.” said.
7 thousand 500 women entrepreneurs reached
Within the scope of the Women Exporter Program carried out in cooperation with the Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Turkey (KAGIDER) and the Foundation for the Evaluation of Women's Work (KEDV), women are provided with trainings such as reaching new markets, entrepreneurship, supply chain management; supportive networking for mentoring, learning and knowledge sharing; e-learning and workshops on export best practices, trade policies and new market opportunities are also offered.
Within the scope of the program, which has been going on since 2019, 7 thousand 500 women have been reached so far. The program was also awarded the Diversity and Inclusion Award by the American Companies Association Turkey.
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