Leather sector investment sluggish as demand falls
Staff Correspondent: The leather industry has been struggling to get new investments because the demand for leather products has gone down in the global market due to the US-China trade ...
Leather industry facing tough time
Staff Correspondent: The leather industry is facing a tough time due to the relocation of tanneries to the incomplete leather estate in Savar.
Huge market in Europe for Bangladeshi leather goods
Staff Correspondent: A new avenue of opportunity for Bangladeshi leather and leather goods can open up in European markets as China is losing its market share, said a top official ...
Apex Footwear Ltd announces appointment of two new CEO’s
Staff Correspondent: Apex Footwear Limited (AFL) has appointed Abdul Momen Bhuiyan as Deputy Managing Director (DMD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its unit 1 and Rajendran Chandran Pillai as ...
Finished leather export quite worrying
Staff Correspondent: A slump in the country’s finished leather exports is quite worrying. This also indicates that Bangladesh’s leather industry, being constrained with limited options, is not yet poised for ...
Leather sector needs more support
Apparel Report: The debate over how long the government should be dishing out incentives, often in cash, to export-oriented sectors, is still on. Despite this, it is indisputable that the ...
35 Percent of Hazaribagh tanneries shifted to Savar
Staff Correspondent: Minister of Industries Amir Hossain Amu said at Jatiya Sangsad that 35% of tanneries have thus far been shifted to Savar Tannery Estate from the city's Hazaribagh area.
Footwear market in Bangladesh expanding fast
Staff Correspondent: Footwear market in Bangladesh is expanding fast riding on the growing demand from a fashion forward middle class. The increasing purchasing capacity and a rising population are also ...
Tanners apprehend cancellation of Tk 1,100cr export orders
Apparel Report: Under pressure following the shutdown of their factories in the city’s Hazaribagh area, tannery owners apprehend that their export orders of some Tk 1,100 crore will be cancelled. ...
Tannery workers spending idle hours amid uncertainties
The Apparel Report: Uncertainties gripped tannery workers at Hazaribagh in the capital since Saturday when power, water and gas supply connections to the factories were snapped. Approximately 30,000 tannery workers ...
Tannery owners threatened to blockade BSCIC building
Apparel Report: The owners and workers of tannery factories threatened to launch more intensive protest programmes if electricity, water and gas connections were not given within 15 days to the ...
Vietnam’s leather, footwear export to climb up $26b
Apparel Report: Vietnam is targeting to earn some 24 billion to 26 billion U.S. dollars from leather and footwear exports by 2020, according to the Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and ...
SC to hear appeal of tannery relocation fine on Mar 30
Apparel Report: The Supreme Court has set March 30 for the appeal hearing of the High Court decision to fine 154 tanneries a total of Tk 308.5 million for polluting ...
