Refayet Ullah Mirdha

When the country is tackling the challenges of unemployment due to a lack of domestic and foreign investment in the industrial sector, the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has devised a plan to create jobs for around one crore people in the next 15 years.

A business team is now on a visit to the Indian state of Gujarat to select a garment warehousing site that will be constructed by

Capital machinery imports by the primary textile sector increased about 54 percent year-on-year in fiscal 2014-15 on the back of higher demand for raw materials from garment exporters.

Garment exports to China rose 26 percent year-on-year to $304.24 million in fiscal 2014-15 as demand for low-priced basic clothes is still high among middle-income customers.

Garment exports to Japan rose 14.02 percent to $652.55 million in fiscal 2014-15 partly due to relaxed rules of origin for Bangladeshi knitwear.

SWEDISH retail giant H&M is currently the largest buyer of apparel items from Bangladesh, sourcing garments from more than 250 factories in the country.

Cotton consumption in Bangladesh is set to increase 2.73 percent year-on-year to 5.65 million bales in fiscal 2015-16 on the back of higher demand from garment manufacturers, a US agency said in a report last week.

Exports of leather and leather goods crossed $1 billion for the second year in fiscal 2014-15, according to data from the Export

The commerce ministry is set to send a team to the US to further argue its case for reinstatement of generalised system of preferences

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has vowed to push the government to set up a specialised bank for the garment industry to

The government will build a garment village in Chittagong, aiming to increase apparel exports to reach $50 billion by 2021, Commerce

Islami Bank Bangladesh, the financier of Swan Garments over the last 30 years, plans to donate Tk 1.39 crore to clear the workers'

The Clean Clothes Campaign, a global rights group, called on the Bangladesh government and German retailer Aldi to immediately

A German-based workplace safety and products quality certification firm had failed to address the flawed safety measures and construction of Rana Plaza before the building collapse in Savar took the lives of 1,138 workers more than two years ago.

Four bighas of land belonging to the owner of Swan Garments might be sold off by the committee formed to pay outstanding salaries

Garment shipments to the European Union, the country's single largest export destination, increased 4.11 percent year-on-year to

Garment exports to the US, the country's single largest export destination, rose 7.09 percent year-on-year in the January-May period on the back of a rebound in the American economy.

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It was nine o'clock last Tuesday and Nurul Islam was waiting for Gausia wholesale market in Narayanganj to open. Owner of Bismillah

Garment exports grew 4.08 percent to $25.5 billion in fiscal 2014-15, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau.