Tag Archives: Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association

CPD-FES Publication Industrial Safety in the RMG Sector in the Post-Accord-Alliance Era Is the Institutionalisation Process Slowing Down? Industrial safety in the readymade garments (RMG) sector has been passing a critical phase with a lack of proper coordination, monitoring and ...

Authors: Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Fahmida Khatun, Tamim Ahmed, Kithmina Hewage and Anjana Pathirana The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption to the global apparel value chain and has delayed its recovery in the medium term. Innovative strategies and tools ...

Bangladesh is still a lucrative destination for sourcing low-cost garment items, coming second to only China, according to the Global Sourcing Survey-2018 by the AsiaInspection, which provides inspection services to global brands.

The government has decided to ease the condition for getting new market exploration assistance for the readymade garment exporters by allowing them to repatriate their export earnings from any country.

Labour leaders have alleged that the real representation of the readymade garment sector workers has been ignored in the wage board formed on Sunday for the RMG sector as the government has violated rules in appointing workers’ representative to the board.

Country’s export earnings in the first half of the current financial year 2017-18 posted a moderate growth of 7.15 per cent to stand at $17.92 billion from $16.72 billion in the same period a year ago amid weakening of the taka against the US dollar.

Rapid automation of production, closure of some noncompliant factories and the emergence of some other high-potential sectors have shrunk the total number of workers employed by the garment sector by 0.80 million over the last five years.

The favourable US dollar-taka exchange rate has lent a helping hand to apparel exporters in the outgoing calendar year, cushioning the fallout from the uncertain political climate in the Western world.

The country’s billion-dollar apparel industry is yet to attract graduates as a potential job market, apparently due to some untoward incidents that created a bad image of the sector among the people.

The contribution of the Center of Excellence for Bangladesh Apparel Industry (CEBAI) towards enhancing skills in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector was recognized at Brand Forum Meeting - 2017 held in Hotel Amari Dhaka on Thursday.