Apparel
BGMEA sees future in value-added, high-end apparel items
Apparel exporters in Bangladesh need to shift their focus more towards value-added, high-end apparel items like technical apparel as their demand is high in the global market, BGMEA president Faruque ...
BGMEA seeks int'l media's support to promote Bangladesh's RMG industry
BGMEA sought cooperation and support from international media to tell the world about the achievements and positive stories of Bangladesh's apparel industry.
Bangladesh's transgender entrepreneurs create safe work spaces
The conservative Muslim-majority country's roughly 1.5 million transgender people have long faced discrimination and violence.
Growing automation to cut RMG jobs: Speakers
Speakers at a virtual dialogue on Tuesday said though there is huge potential to boost the country’s apparel export in future, the employment generation would be shrunk in the readymade garment (RMG) ...
Stuck workers in lockdown won’t lose jobs: BGMEA
BGMEA said that no action would be taken against those RMG workers, who are stuck in their respective places during the countrywide lockdown, for not joining their respective factories
RMG sector
Many garment factories yet to pay workers' wages
The holy festival of Eid-ul-Azha is fast approaching. However, more than five and a half hundred export-oriented garment and textile factories have still not paid the June wages of their workers
Export revenue increases in FY2020-21 even during pandemic
The country’s export earnings grew by 15 per cent in 2020-21 fiscal even during the coronavirus pandemic
Bangladesh manufacturing sector’s productivity crucial to offset Covid impacts: WB
To boost export growth and help the economy rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic impacts, improving the manufacturing sector’s productivity will be crucial for Bangladesh, says a new World Bank report
Bangladesh losing opportunity to grab US apparel market
Bangladesh exported apparel products worth about $2 billion (199.79 crore) or Tk 169.82 billion (16,982 crore) to the US in the first four months of 2021
Bangladesh garment industry could save $500m a year by recycling cotton
Bangladesh's garment industry, the world's second-largest exporter of clothes, could reduce its annual spending by $500 million if it recycled cotton waste from its factories and fabric mills
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