Tag Archives: Bangladesh RMG

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 ...

Management performance of RMG enterprises is strongly influenced by factors like group subsidiary of companies, recruitment of foreign staff and level of academic qualification of general managers.

I read an interesting article the other day about a cotton spinning company based in Manchester, England. Although the company, by Bangladesh's standards, produces high volumes of product, it has established a niche for itself in the UK and Japan with customers who appreciate both quality and locality of resource.

Around 70% of the manufacturing cost of an apparel product is fabric and this cost can be reduced by around 10% by introducing new cutting technology.

Bangladesh faces a tremendous challenge. How will it provide jobs for the 20 million young people set to join the labor force over the next decade? In the past, the country relied on the garment sector to drive its economy and exports, as well as to employ many workers. This was successful in many ways. Today, Bangladesh is the world’s second largest producer of ready-made-garments in the world, and apparel comprises 83% of Bangladesh’s exports.

Shirin has been with us for 12 years, Mahmuda for nine, Rakib for six. The number of workers who have worked for us in one particular factory for over 10 years is massive. Most live in Khilkhet, where we have one of our factories. We are currently scheduled to shift to a new one in Bangla

Country's readymade garment (RMG) export has missed target in first quarter (July-September, Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY2017-18, FY18) causing uncertainty to achieve US$50 billion by 2021.

A number of initiatives in term of greenisation of RMG sector include installing green building, using eco-friendly and resource-efficient technologies and techniques.