Recent developments give serious cause for alarm for the RMG sector.
UK-India's FTA highlights the urgency for Bangladesh to pursue similar trade agreements.
Bangladesh must rethink its diplomatic and industrial strategies.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers immense potential to transform Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector
Beximco's problems are evidence of a number of ongoing problems in the garment industry.
A potential shift in US-China trade relations is a rare chance for Bangladesh to take a giant leap forward in the global garment trade.
Bangladesh is at a critical crossroads in its energy policy.
The Bangladesh Climate Action Forum 2024 which recently concluded in Dhaka was a huge success and surpassed all expectations.
One of my favourite quotes goes something like this: “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything.” The quote is by Albert Einstein and was made with reference to how easy it is for tyrannical leaders to take power and wreak havoc.
A new study by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) suggests that the impact of the coronavirus pandemic will be deep and long-lasting.
The huge changes we are seeing in the global apparel industry right now are bewildering and unsettling for many of us. A tsunami has swept through the Bangladesh apparel sector and it is hard to believe that things will ever be quite the same again in our industry.
The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc within the global apparel industry and its supply chains and continues to have a devastating impact on sourcing hubs such as our own.
Running a business is a hard slog. It involves long hours, lots of stress, lots of responsibility and rarely a time to switch off and relax. I am not complaining—that is the life I have chosen, and I feel blessed I have been given the privilege to run my own company.
One of the most disappointing aspects of the Covid-19 crisis, which has done so much damage to our industry, was with regard to some of the emails and letters businesses received from their apparel brand customers.
One thing there has yet to be much discussion about since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic is the issue of waste. We know that hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of garment and textile orders have been cancelled or postponed.
“If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth,” stated Bernard Hopkins Jr, one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades.
In the United Kingdom, they have a small but thriving garment industry in Leicester, an industrial city about 100 miles north of London.
The past two decades have seen the onward march of the corporate social responsibility agenda in the global apparel industry.
