The July uprising of 2024 paved the way for reimagining Bangladesh’s economic future.
Why can’t Bangladesh have its own global apparel brand?
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers immense potential to transform Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector
Competitive market pressures, fluctuations in raw material prices responsible for the decline
Explore social compliance audits in Bangladesh’s RMG sector and their impact on workers.
Bangladesh has emerged as an economic success story, primarily through its booming ready-made garments (RMG) sector.
Beximco's problems are evidence of a number of ongoing problems in the garment industry.
The USA's overall apparel imports from the world also fell by 0.33 percent to $67.04 billion during the January-October period, the data showed. China ranked first in apparel shipments to the USA, with Vietnam in second place
Bangladesh has a class problem which deters from effective conversations about the many barriers to operational unionisation in the garment industry.
Bangladesh retained second position in apparel shipments to the European Union (EU) in the first two months of the current year with a 22.75 per cent share of the trade bloc’s overall garment imports, according to data from EUROSTAT.
Only 6 factories are still working clear the bonus
Bangladesh has gradually turned into a major manufacturing hub for winter jackets as work orders are mainly shifting away from China due to higher production costs and a shortage of skilled workers in the country.
Bangladesh’s export earnings stood at $4.63 billion in February, the lowest in four months, although overall receipts rose 7.81 per cent year-on-year led by apparel, leather and leather goods shipments, official figures showed yesterday.
Sabiha Saiki Fashion shipped 85 consignments worth Tk 22 crore through Ctg port in the last three years using fake documents
Readymade garment manufacturer A Plus Sweater Ltd had sent an RMG consignment to Chattogram Port from its Gazipur factory on eight covered vans on October 29 last year for shipment to Brazil.
In theory, this sounds like a good idea, but it is not so straightforward.
Unpredictability has become the new normal in a world afflicted by the forces of deglobalisation amidst rising geopolitical tensions.
Clean Clothes Campaign, the world’s largest alliance of garment industry labour unions, piled pressure on the major brands connected to the Tazreen factory fire to sign the International Accord, which protects workers in Bangladesh.
The workers of a garment factory blocked a road in Hemayetpur area of Savar demanding their salaries yesterday.Nearly a thousand workers of Raquef Apparels Washing and Packaging Industries Ltd blocked Hemayetpur-Singair road at Tetuljhora area around 3:30pm, said Dhaka Industrial Police-1 assistant sub-inspector Korban Ali.
