Business Desk : dhakamirror.com The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters (BGMEA) and the Fashion Design Council of Bangladesh (FDCB) intend to forge collaboration to promote and develop high-end fashionable garments using home grown fabrics and materials. The willingness was expressed when FDCB President Maheen Khan and Vice President Emdad Haque met with BGMEA President Faruque ... Read more
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BGMEA calls for reduction in the price of diesel
Says higher fuel prices are increasing production costs News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) recently called for the government to cut the price of diesel as the cost of doing business has risen significantly amid an increase in fuel oil prices and ongoing load shedding. Due to load-shedding, a ... Read more
Ershad’s call to prevent RMG fires
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has urged the government and the Bangladesh Garments Manufacturer and Exporters’ Association (BGMEA) leaders to take steps to prevent further casualties in accidents like fire and building collapse in the country’s garment factories. He said, the garment workers through their hard labour are helping the country to earn foreign currencies,
BGMEA makes list of 8 Dhaka factories shut on safety grounds
Four others allowed time to rectify A total of eight garment units have so far been shut on safety grounds while another four have been given time to rectify their buildings, said a leader of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association. After the collapse of Rana Plaza at Savar on April 24,
BGMEA seeks tax relief on destroyed products
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association has sought tax exemption on the destroyed finished apparel items and raw materials of the five garment factories housed in Rana Plaza building that collapsed on April 24. In a letter sent to the National Board of Revenue early last week, the BGMEA requested the NBR to remit the ... Read more
Unrest hinders market dev, buyers losing confidence: BGMEA chief
Md Atiqul Islam, the newly elected president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, talks about the prospects and challenges of the RMG sector and the impacts of the ongoing political unrest on the industry in an interview with New Age. He also describes what would be the role of the new leadership
Keep RMG-related vehicles out of purview of hartal: BGMEA
The Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association on Thursday requested the political parties to keep RMG products-carrying vehicles out of the purview of general strike. ‘I request the politicians not to strangulate readymade
BGMEA works for a better industrial relationship
The country’s garment makers are now working on how to implement the Better Work Programme of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to establish a better industrial relationship between the workers and the factory managements. Lejo Sibbel, ILO’s senior design adviser of the Better Work Programme, and
Garment makers move to right labour wrongs
Share their steps with The Daily Star following international outcry Against the background of growing concern over labour rights violation in Bangladesh, garment makers yesterday said they had taken the issue seriously and started to improve work environment and maintain compliance in factories. They said garment makers have already engaged the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) “Better ... Read more
BGMEA fears short-term slump in apparel export
All workers to get salary, allowances before Eid: assoc There will be a slowdown in apparel exports for another six months as exports orders from the buyers have slowed down, Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, said on Thursday. Addressing a meeting with the press, he claimed that most of ... Read more
Demolish BGMEA highrise: HC
It says the 15-storey was built on water body violating all rules, gives 90 days to get it vacated The High Court has ordered the authorities to demolish the 15-storey BGMEA building on Begunbari-Hatirjheel canal, saying it was built on a land acquired through forgery and earth-filled illegally. In a judgement yesterday, the court asked ... Read more
77 candidates file nominations
A total of 77 candidates vying for the posts of director of the executive board of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association filed their nomination papers on Monday. The contestants are mainly grouped in two panels— one led by the incumbent vice-president Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin and the other by former BGMEA president Anwar-Ul-Alam Chowdhury Parvez