The European countries are happy with the measures taken by the Bangladesh Government to ensure workplace safety in the country’s readymade garment manufacturing (RMG) units, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has said. ...
Tags: Apparel
The North American Bangladesh Worker Safety Working Group, a collaboration of six leading U.S. and Canadian apparel and retail trade associations, sent a letter to the Prime Minster of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina Wazed regarding the serious ...
American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) President and CEO Kevin M. Burke released the following statement after a meeting to discuss worker safety in Bangladesh with several Bangladesh government officials, including Foreign Minister ...
Stirred by global criticism over pay and working conditions of readymade garment (RMG) workers, Bangladesh Government has constituted a wage board to increase the minimum wages of these workers, Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui has ...
Tags: RMG Workers, Apparel
More than 200 readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing units have shutdown for an indefinite period in Bangladesh’s Ashulia industrial belt, following labour unrest in the aftermath of the Savar building collapse, whose toll has now ...
In view of the recent incidents in Bangladesh, including last week’s fire at a readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing factory in Mirpur near Dhaka, the Savar building collapse and Tarzeen factory fire accident, which have together ...
The Government of Bangladesh has temporarily shutdown 18 garment manufacturing factories on the grounds of inacceptable labour standards and working conditions, Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui informed reporters. While two ...
Tags: Garment Factories, Garment
Bangladesh’s Ministry of Commerce has requested the European Union not to impose severe conditions that may impact readymade garment exports from Bangladesh. In a three-page letter sent to William Hanna, EU Ambassador in Bangladesh, ...
Tags: readymade garment, EU
Global apparel buyers expressed their concern over frequent accidents in the country's apparel sector, including the latest Savar tragedy, and demanded coordinated efforts from the government and apparel leaders to ensure safety. We are ...
Tags: Bgmea, Savar Like Tragedies
Geared up to set up a garment industry in Adamjee Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in Bangladesh, Indo-Bangladeshi joint venture firm Remi Holdings Ltd. has entered into a deal with Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA). ...
The exports of woven garments from Bangladesh registered a growth of 13.81 percent year-on-year to total US$ 8.09 billion, during the initial nine months of the current fiscal year that began on July 1, 2013. During the same period, ...
Tags: Woven Garment, Exports
Urging garment and jute entrepreneurs in the country to reduce reliance on traditional export items, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked them to diversify their exports and tap new foreign markets where Bangladeshi products ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, garment makers
Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) wants a separate ‘Ministry of Apparel’ in the Bangladesh Government that is exclusively dedicated to the country’s readymade garment (RMG) sector. A ...
Tags: Apparel, Garments Manufacturers, garment sector, garment industry
The Bangladesh government has been asked the high court to impose a ban on the import of food treated with formalin and other poisonous chemicals. The court also asked the government to supply testing kits to all the sea and land ports ...
Tags: poisonous chemicals, formalin, import, FBCCI
The scheduled visit of a Russian business delegation, including representatives from the textile and garment industry, to Bangladesh in December this year has raised hope for the country’s readymade garment (RMG) industry, which is ...
Tags: Bangladesh, BGMEA, RMG, Russia