Bangladesh news and archive

Mango and Save the Children join forces to promote education and sport in Bangladesh

Mango on Tuesday said it is joining forces with NGO Save the Children to promote education and sport among children and women in Bangladesh. Alexia Putellas, Mango ambassador and the world’s best female footballer, is also the ambassador of the project, which is called Goals, Via this project Mango said it aims to contribute to the social and...

Feb 28, 2023

Event

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Partners with Bangladesh Apparel Exchange for the 4th Edition of the Sustainable Apparel Forum

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), an independent and impact-creating organization that brings together around half of the apparel industry to enable positive social and environmental impact at scale, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with the Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE) for its fourth edition of the Sustainable...

Jan 26, 2023

Business |Interview Featured

ILO director on sourcing in Bangladesh: “Results speak for themselves”

Bangladesh has come a long way as a ready-made garment manufacturing country in recent years and is well on its way to displacing China as the world's largest exporter. Given the Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013, which marked the low point of the country's garment industry, how did the country rise to its current top position in such a short...

Jan 25, 2023

Fashion

Ekn Footwear presents sneaker designed in Bangladesh and made in Portugal

German sneaker label Ekn Footwear has collaborated with designer Rokaiya Ahmed Purna from Bangladesh to create a vegan sneaker made entirely in Portugal. In doing so, Ekn Footwear is challenging the industry's traditional manufacturing model done of producing in countries of the Global South and designing in Europe or North America. Model “...

Jan 24, 2023

Business |Interview Featured

GIZ coordinator: “Low labour costs alone will not guarantee Bangladesh's economic development”

What are the advantages of Bangladesh as a sourcing location, how has the situation changed since the Rana Plaza disaster and what does the future hold for the world’s second largest sourcing country? FashionUnited discussed these and other questions with Werner Lange, cluster coordinator at the German association for international development...

Jan 23, 2023

Business |BACKGROUND Featured

A visit to one of Bangladesh’s green garment factories

Once considered a cheap sourcing location with unsafe factories by some international buyers, Bangladesh has come a long way in just ten short years: After the deadly fire at Tazreen Fashions in 2012 and the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in 2013, Bangladesh sourcing seemed at an all-time low, its reputation tarnished as a manufacturing...

Nov 30, 2022

BusinessFeatured

Sustainability Leadership Award recognises 18 green factories in Bangladesh

Let’s imagine a land where garment workers had factories that provided a safe and pleasant working environment with greenery to spend their breaks in, additionally state-of-the-art machinery, free health care and child care, a fair price shop to do groceries, integrative policies for specially abled workers, empowerment training for female...

Nov 22, 2022

BusinessFeatured

Made in Bangladesh Week asserts Bangladesh’s position as reliable sourcing destination

The first ever Made in Bangladesh Week (MIBW), which concluded on Friday, managed to not only put Bangladesh on the map but also highlighted the many advantages this sourcing country provides. By doing so, the event turned the “Made in Bangladesh” label - originally connected with fast fashion and cheap labour - into a mark of quality and...

Nov 21, 2022

Business

First ever Made in Bangladesh Week to showcase latest in RMG sourcing, sustainability and innovations

Time is money and all the more so in the deadline-driven world that is the manufacturing of ready-made garments (RMGs). But how to engage stakeholders long enough to establish meaningful connections and effect change? A week-long event in November wants to achieve this and showcase the sustainability efforts being made by Bangladesh garment...

Aug 23, 2022

Business

As Bangladesh factories face energy crisis, worker holidays are staggered

Bangladesh, one of fashion’s most important manufacturing markets, may face a production crises if workers take August holidays en masse. Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Power and Energy, has accorded a proposal asking factories to choose different days off instead of all of them remaining closed. Bangladesh in the world’s second largest...

Aug 10, 2022

Fashion

Registration for The IAF’s 37th World Fashion Convention is Open Now

IAF is proud to invite the global apparel industry to its 37th World Fashion Convention that the global industry body is organizing with its Bangladeshi members, BGMEA and BKMEA. Registration for these events has now opened on the joint, dedicated convention website. The Convention will contain a full day conference and a network dinner. The...

Jul 29, 2022

Business

Third Sustainable Apparel Forum focuses on engagement and collaboration

For the third time, policy makers, industry leaders, brand representatives and fashion campaigners from Bangladesh and abroad gathered in Dhaka to accelerate the momentum for achieving more sustainability in the Bangladesh apparel industry. More than 50 speakers and 20 green growth exhibitors from over 20 countries participated in the...

May 12, 2022