4pc allocation of GDP sought for social safety net
Apparel Correspondent: Economic analysts and development experts have demanded an increase in allocations to the government's social safety net scheme as many people have fallen below the poverty line due ...
4th anniv of The Apparel News celebrated
Apparel Desk: The 4th founding anniversary of The Apparel News was observed at its Dhaka Bureau Office in Savar on Friday, January 22.
Bangladeshi garments suppliers win lawsuit against US buyers
Apparel Correspondent: A group of Bangladeshi garments suppliers have won a US $40 million lawsuit against US clothing giant Sears, according to a report published by Forbes, a US economic ...
3.5 lakh RMG workers lost jobs during COVID-19 pandemic
Apparel Correspondent: The readymade garment (RMG) sector plays a major role in the employment and export economy of the country. A total of 3,57,000 RMG workers have lost their jobs ...
DSL celebrates 1st anniversary
Apparel Correspondent: Dongyi Sourcing Limited (DSL) has celebrated its first anniversary in a brighter setting at the Le Meridien hotel in the capital's Uttara on Friday, January 15.
SPWA unveils SHADOW magazine
Apparel Desk: Screen Print Welfare Association (SPWA), an organization of printing sector of country’s garment industry, unveiled its yearly magazine SHADOW on Friday, January 1 at Sector-7 Party Center in ...
F-commerce brings fortune during Covid-19 pandemic
Apparel Correspondent: The innovative idea helps businesses to meet the challenges. It becomes more relevant when the epidemic comes and creates an existential crisis.
Heritage of Belkuchi's handloom
Khandaker Mohammad Ali, Sirajganj: Handloom, high-quality art, is a part of our tradition. But we are now about to lose it. The handloom of Sirajganj’s Belkuchi Upazila is well-known in ...
4 female RMG workers get bachelor's degree through BGMEA initiative
Apparel Correspondent: Currently, a total of 70 female readymade garment (RMG) workers are studying at the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chattogram under the special program with the assistance ...
Increasing income in non-traditional products
Apparel Correspondent: Once upon a time, jute, the golden fiber of Bangladesh, was the most important cash crop and exporting product of the country. Now the readymade garment (RMG) has ...
Small business owners hold their breath post-confinement
Staff Correspondent: After months of economic turmoil triggered by the long coronavirus lockdown, battered small and medium-sized businesses are attempting to pick up the pieces. The post-confinement world remains a ...
Corona downs garment shipments to a decade-low
Staff Correspondent: The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic has put a scar in apparel shipments as earnings from the country’s main export item in the immediate past fiscal year fell significantly compared ...
Apparel exports may drop $6 billion in FY20
Staff Correspondent: Export earnings from the coronavirus-hit apparel sector might decline by $6 billion to around $28 billion in the fiscal year 2019-20 from $34 billion a year before. In ...
BD RMG seeks duty-free access to USA
Staff Correspodent: Bangladesh requested the USA to provide duty-free market access for Bangladeshi garment products for two years as the industry is bearing the brunt of the cancellation of orders ...
EPB sets $37bn export target for FY: 2020-21
Staff Correspondent: The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has set a $37.44-billion export target for fiscal year (FY) 2020-21, 13 percent higher than the expected export receipts to reach $33 billion ...
The story of a generous industrialist
Avijit Biswas : The whole world is now in the grip of the deadly corona. The world economy has been defeated . Even the most powerful nations in the world have ...
Bangladesh is still ahead of Vietnam
Avijit Biswas : The “Made in Bangladesh” tags on the apparels of the top-notch brands like Marks and Spencer, Zara, Calvin Klein, H&M, C&A and so on make us proud. Industrialists ...
Former BGMEA President Atiqul Islam Mayor Candidate of AL in DNCC again
Avijit Biswas : The current mayor Atiqul Islam has been nominated as the mayor candidate of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC ) from Awami League. He is also the director ...
Logic software on a unique height
Shoaeb Mahmud : Bangladesh is the second-largest garment exporter in the world. Logic Software Limited is the country’s leading and largest ERP software company in the world of software used in ...
Bangladeshi professionals are much more effective & efficient than foreigners : Ahmed Arif Billah
Wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and is also one of the basic needs of humankind. In this context Bangladesh is now the second largest Ready-made Garment (RMG) ...