
Deputy head of Barakat Foundation for procurement of economic resources, announcing the good news on cooperation in this field, added, “The Barakat Foundation’s accelerated social-based job creation activities has not only led to supporting the stationary producers in Iran, but also to the beginning of the exports of Iranian stationaries to other countries.
Hadi Johari further reiterated, “Syria is the first foreign market for Iranian stationaries, and exports to that country have already started.”
He emphasized that the acceleration of the social-based job creation activities of the Barakat Foundation aimed at facilitating and further development of cultural products, and especially Iranian stationaries has begun, that has in addition to creating lots of new jobs, focused on production of those products that were not made in Iran before this movement.
The deputy head of Barakat foundation for economic cooperation added, “Taking advantage of the knowledge-based companies capabilities, mechanical pens, and felt-tip highlighter pens are now for the first time manufactured in Iran.”
Further elaborating on the other accelerated social-based job creation activities of Barakat Foundation Johari said, “This acceleration in social-based job creation in both home jobs and workshop revival projects aimed at production of Iranian stationaries attracted the support of many organizations and led to return of those workshops and home-based producers to the production cycle.”
Johari emphasized that the activities of this cooperative unit of the Barakat Foundation in exports of Iranian made stationaries to Syria places the EIKO among the topmost exporter companies of the coutnry.
According to the deputy head of Barakat foundation for economic cooperation, in addition to Syria, Iran can export its stationaries to other countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman and Russia, as the first target markets.
Referring to the obstacles and difficulties in the way of exporting Iranian stationaries, he said, “Although there are strong competitors in this field, such as China and India, which are the poles of producing stationaries in the world and export to various countries, including Iran, makes competition very difficult in his field.”
Johari reiterated that one of the obstacles in the way of Iranian cultural industries in general and the stationaries in particular is the lack of an appropriate distribution system, as well as accelerating the social-based job creation and investments, and providing the required financial assets and facilities for the active businesses in this field, such as distributing and exporting companies’ serious participation.
The deputy head of Barakat foundation for economic cooperation emphasized, “Accelerating the social-based job creation projects in the field of manufacturing Iranian stationaries, but the Barakat Foundation is not directly involved in the production of Iranian stationaries, as it is focused in facilitating production in this field.”