The footwear sector’s strong economic growth and rising purchasing power of consumers, came to a grinding halt in 2020 as Coronavirus pandemic led almost all major shoe brands in the country to count losses. However, changed consumer beha

Increase in prices of raw materials has made life difficult for Bangladesh garment makers, who are battling it out on different fronts already due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and now they have this burning issue to deal with but the big quest

The BKMEA’s letter calling upon the Government to suspend the 5 per cent annual increment of workers for next two years has workers’ unions/labour bodies up in arms against it with the latter threatening to wage tougher movements to pro

Stakeholders join hands to help the industry face the Coronavirus challenges through technology upgradation, efficiency and productivity increase. One such initiative is NIPOSH.

ASEAN has become a vital market for Bangladesh due to its immense size and more so keeping in mind Bangladesh’s upcoming LDC graduation, which would shorn the country of the current trade privileges that it enjoys.

A war of words has broken out between entities pertaining to the ability of the RMG Sustainability Council (RSC), which took over from the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, to carry out remediation.

The term mangineer is a combination of two words – ‘manager’ and ‘engineer’, which welds together the traditional roles of both an engineer and a manager – and is aimed at implementing lean and agile operational concepts even mo

Close on heels of the Government first declaring the stimulus package to help export-oriented industries to pay workers’ wages, digital disbursement of workers’ wages gained substantial grounds. However, reports suggest that of late, th

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, many feel, will not just impact Bangladesh’s exports adversely but also its ability to attract foreign direct investments.