...Executive summary: A new industry of ready-made garment is to be set up in Bangladesh. The reasons on which this decision is based includes, flexible business and investment policy of Bangladesh government, economic security, cheap labour, tax exemption etc. Garment industry requires less investment capital. Raw material would be purchased from the local markets, this will save time and money. Different brands will be launched according to the financial conditions of the consumer, this will capture maximum market. New export markets will be sort out and this will help in generating foreign exchange. Internet, catalogue, television, bill boards, radio, will be used as source of advertisements. Retail and wholesale markets will be the main target.Executive summary: A new industry of ready-made garment is to be set up in Bangladesh. The reasons on which this decision is based includes, flexible business and investment policy of Bangladesh government, economic security, cheap labour, tax exemption etc. Garment industry requires less investment capital. Raw material would be purchased from the local markets, this will save time and money. Different brands will be launched according to the financial conditions of the consumer, this will capture maximum market. New export markets will be sort out and this will help in generating foreign exchange. Internet, catalogue, television, bill boards, radio, will be used as source of advertisements. Retail...
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...Module: Issues in Global Business and Strategic Concepts Assignment on: Globalization Prepared for: Md. Ashiqur Rahman Bhuiyan Programme Leader BACB & Personal Tutor Prepared by: Tahmidul Islam University of Derby Program: Bachelor (Hons.) Business Administration Submitted date: 11/6/2013 Globalization: According to “Charles Willium Hill” globalization is toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy Globalization makes the world short and easy to communication. Bangladesh is famous for exporting RMG respectively. Through globalization Bangladesh is earning a lot foreign remittance in RMG sector. RMG Bangladesh: In 1978, Bangladesh starting earning through RMG and in that year Bangladesh RMG sector earn only one million dollar. However now in 2012 RMG sector of Bangladesh yearly turnover is 4.2 million dollar. The sector contributes significantly to the GDP. Our labor is cheap for a reason we can earn through RMG sector, our lion percent of people work in garments sector. It is possible because of globalization impact. The Globalization of Readymade Garments Bangladesh: As we all know, globalization means in a sentence ‘cross border business.’ Reduce all trade barriers around global. Bangladesh is also under globalization. There are few global institutions are- *World Trade Organization (WTO) *International Monitory Fund (IMF) *World Bank (WB) *United Nation (UN) We need global institutions because it helps to manage, regulate...
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...Development of Apparel Industry in Bangladesh Garment Industry Large-scale production of readymade garments (RMG) in organised factories is a relatively new phenomenon in Bangladesh. Until early sixties, individual tailors made garments as per specifications provided by individual customers who supplied the fabrics. The domestic market for readymade garment, excepting children wears and men's knit underwear (genji) was virtually non-existent in Bangladesh until the sixties. Since the late 1970s, the RMG industry started developing in Bangladesh primarily as an export-oriented industry although, the domestic market for RMG has been increasing fast due to increase in personal disposable income and change in life style. The sector rapidly attained high importance in terms of employment, foreign exchange earnings and its contribution to GDP. In 1999, the industry employed directly more than 1.4 million workers, about 80% of whom were female. With the growth of RMG industry, linkage industries supplying fabrics, yarns, accessories, packaging materials, etc. have also expanded. In addition, demand for services like transportation, banking, shipping and insurance has increased. All these have created additional employment. The total indirect employment created by the RMG industry in Bangladesh is estimated to be some 200,000 workers. In addition to its economic contribution, the expansion of the RMG industry has caused noticeable social changes by bringing more than 1.12 million...
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...http://www.bangladeshaccord.org/bangladesh/ The southern Asian country of Bangladesh, bordered by India and Burma, has a population of approximately 164 million people[1]. The Bangladesh economy has grown an average of six percent a year over the last two decades and has a population increasing by an average of 1.59% a year[2]. This manufacturing industry accounted for almost 12% of Bangladeshi GDP in 2009 and 2010[3] and employs approximately four million people[4]. The export-oriented Bangladeshi garment manufacturing industry has boomed into a $19 billion dollar a year industry[5] following the expiry in 2005 of an international agreement on textiles and clothing import quotas in place since the early 1960’s[6], duty-free access offered by western countries, and low labour costs. The Bangladeshi textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young, urbanizing, workers many of whom are women. With the majority of production destined for U.S. and European markets, Bangladesh’s ready-made garment industry now accounts for approximately 78% of total exports[7], second only to China as the world’s largest apparel exporter. However, Bangladesh has a long history of health and safety tragedies in garment and textile manufacturing. Garment factory fires and collapses have killed at least 1800 workers since 2005[8]. The Tazreen Fashions fire on 24th November 2012 and the unprecedented disaster of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex on 24 April 2013, together...
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...History of Garments Industry in Bangladesh Arif Hasan April 1 2014 Department of Management University of Dhaka Table of Contents History of Garment industry in Bangladesh ........................................................................................................2 Pre-liberation period ....................................................................................................................................................3 Post-liberation period ...................................................................................................................................................4 Early 80’s ...........................................................................................................................................................................4 Present condition: ...........................................................................................................................................................5 At present Bangladesh is: ........................................................................................................................................5 Concluding Remarks .................................................................................................................................................. 10 History of Garment industry in Bangladesh Recently J P Morgan made a list of which “Frontier Five” emerging 5 countries which are worth investing among the five country...
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...Business as Usual is Not an Option Supply Chains and Sourcing after Rana Plaza Sarah Labowitz and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly April 2014 About the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University Stern School of Business “At NYU Stern, we develop people and ideas that transform the challenges of the 21st century into opportunities to create value for business and society. Our Center for Business and Human Rights is the embodiment of that mission. By creating a safe haven for open dialogue and convening relevant voices for discussion around practical solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems, the Center, and by extension this report, demonstrate that profit and principle can co-exist. ” –Peter Henry, Dean NYU Stern School of Business Dean Henry launched the Center for Business and Human Rights in March 2013 with a strong belief in the power of business to create positive change in society. In that spirit, the Center’s mission is to challenge and empower businesses to make practical progress on human rights in their own operations. It is the first center to focus on human rights as an integral part of a business school. We start from the premise that business can and does work for the good of society. We support the goal of business to create value while emphasizing high standards for human rights performance. Each year, we take on a major project around a set of human rights challenges in a sector that is of foremost concern for companies, consumers...
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...[pic] INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH CHITTAGONG CAMPUS ASSIGNMENT ON: Challenges of garments industry in Bangladesh COURSE TITLE: International business-mba-514 SUBMITTED TO: dr. tahlil azim COURSE INSTRUCTOR Mba-514 SUBMITTED BY: irfan riaz ahmed ID: 0531045 SEC: 01 Mba-514 DATE OF SUBMISSION: 20-09-2010 TABLE OF CONTENT |SL. NO. |PARTICULARS |PAGE NO. | |1. |ABSTRACT |3 | |2. |INTRODUCTION |4 | |3. |BACKGROUND OF THE INDUSTRY |5-7 | |4. |PRESENT COMPETITIVE SITUATIONS OF THE INDUSTRY IN THE WORLD MARKET |7-13 | |5. |PROBLEMS OF THE INDUSTRY |13-15 | |6. |PROSPECT OF THE INDUSTRY |15-18 | |7. |CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATION |19 | |8...
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...CHAPTER – ONE Introduction 1. (A) Overview of the Garments Industry The readymade garments (RMG) industry of Bangladesh is the fastest growing export oriented industry of the country. Starting in late seventies, the ready made garment industry of Bangladesh now accounts for over 64% of the country's total export earning. A close look at the composition of RMG export of Bangladesh over the last two decades reveals that the woven garments sub-sector constituted the lion's share. In fact, the beginning of the development of RMG sector started with woven garments in 1985. In the first half the 90s, the share of woven garments was above 80%. However, the share gradually started to decline to about 70% in five years late and to 62% in 2004 and to 38.80% in 2005-2006 (Export Promotion Bureau Bangladesh, 2006). In addition, compared to its double-digit growth in the 90s, the woven garments export grew only about 8% in 2000. Such a declining growth rate and a steep decline of the share of woven garments export in the total RMG export makes it urgent to re-evaluate the status of the sector of Bangladesh vis-à-vis with that of the competing countries. Moreover, with the dominance of the proponents of free market economy, some changes are taking place in the global trade regulations affecting the readymade garments sector of Bangladesh in general. One example of such change is the phasing out of the apparel quota on December 31, 2004. Under these circumstances, it is imperative to...
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...History of Ready-made Garment (RMG) Sector in Bangladesh Now a days textile sector of Bangladesh retains it's top position in global market. This can't be gained overnights. Bangladesh can get it's present position by dint of merit and industry of people of Bangladesh. The base of textile sector was first established in 60th decade of the last century."mercury shirts"which is originated from Karachi started the rmg business first.the industry exported shirts to the European market in 1965-66 first. | | In 1977-78 only 9 exporting industries were available in this country which deal with 10 million used every year.there were 3 big industries available in that time.they were: 1. Riaz garments 2. Jewel garments 3. Paris garments. Of them, Riaz garments was the most well known and oldest industry in that time.In urdu road of Dhaka it started it's business with some tailoring shop first.In that time it was known as Riaz store.In 1973,it was named Riaz garments.In 1978,it started exporting products abroad.it exported 1 million pieces of shirts to the Olanda,a South Korean company. Another garments known as Desh Garments ,also treated as the pathfinder of textile sector in Bangladesh. In 1979 Desh Garments opened a joint venture project with south korean company "Daiyuu". At present RMG sector of Bangladesh deals with 22 billion USD every year.4 million people directly depend on the ups and downs of the sector.the 81% of the total export earnings are come from...
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...Introduction The Ready made garments (RMG) sectors emerged in late 1970s. The first Garments Industry named “DESH” Garment which was established in 1979s. By 1980s about 800 factories. There was very good growth in the 1990s; about 3400 factories came into operation. Today more than 4600 units exporting more than $5 billion an contribute about 48 percent of ours national export earning, 9.5 percent of GDP. The total number of workforce employed in this sector is 1.8 million, which is half of the total industrial workforce of the country. Besides this, more than 15 million people work in related industries from button-making to truckers to Insurance underwriters. Almost 85 percent of garments workers are women and most of them have come from villages. After introduction of the Multi Fibers Agreement (MFA). ASIA has become the world’s foremost exporters. Initially production was concentrated in the East Asian countries like Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, but by the middle of the 1980s others Asians countries become major producers like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Haiti, Laos Madagascan and Myanmar emerge as major exporters of garments manufactures. Bangladesh is a good example of a country who was benefited from quota restriction on the countries export under MFA & General System of preferences (GSP) introduced in 1971 gave Bangladesh general access to European Union (EU), Canada and USA markets. BGMEA members export all kinds of woven, knit and sweaters...
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...growth and employment generation but this approach has not worked. The Ready-Made Garments (RMG) industry occupies a unique position in the Bangladesh economy. Bangladesh has a total population of over160 million. Among of vast population about 3.5 million people are working in the garments industries. It is the largest exporting industry in Bangladesh, which experienced phenomenal growth during the last 20 years under the quota system of Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA). The abolition of quota system thus brings new challenges for Bangladesh’s apparel industry to continue its current status and enhance it in a free flow of apparel trade era. According to BGMEA, after the Liberation War of Bangladesh, in 1983 the Ready-Made-Garment (RMG) industry emerged to be a most promising sector in the socio-economic context of Bangladesh. From that point of time till now, this industry has grown and developed so rapidly that currently Bangladesh is exporting RMG products worth 5 billion USD every year to countries like EU, USA, Canada and other countries of the world. Now, Bangladesh enjoys the position of being the 6th largest apparel supplier to the USA and EU countries. The sector rapidly attained high importance in terms of employment, foreign exchange earnings and its contribution to GDP. Background of RMG industry in Bangladesh since beginning of ‘80s Export-oriented garment exports from Bangladesh were initiated in the beginning of the 1980s (Bhattacharya and Rahman, 2001; Hoque...
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...Developed System for Business Management Sharly Joana Halder and Wooju Kim Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea {sjhalder,wkim}@yonsei.ac.kr Abstract. The readymade garment industry of Bangladesh has expanded dramatically over the last three decades. Traditionally, the jute industry dominated the industrial sector of the country until the 1970s. Since the early 1980s, the readymade garment industry has emerged as an important player in the economy of the country and has gradually replaced the jute industry. Although Bangladesh is a garments based country, in most of the garments, employees work manually though there are some error in the software and also those software do not work properly. We developed a system which highlighted the style sheet information, export L/C, back to back L/C, U/D preparation, input commercial invoice, export invoice and so on, which save time and money, increased data communication and transmission and faster data retrieval. Keywords: Export, import, readymade, garments. 1 Introduction The ready-made garment (RMG) industry of Bangladesh started in the late 1970s and became a prominent player in the economy within a short period of time. The industry has contributed to export earnings, foreign exchange earnings, employment creation, poverty alleviation and the empowerment of women. Shirts, T-shirts, trousers, sweaters and jackets are the main products manufactured and exported by the industry. Bangladesh exports its RMG products...
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...www.ccsenet.org/ijbm International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 7, No. 3; February 2012 Recent Unrest in the RMG Sector of Bangladesh: Is this an Outcome of Poor Labour Practices? Chowdhury Golam Hossan (Corresponding author) Assistant Professor of Management College of Business Administrations, Abu Dhabi University Abu Dhabi, UAE Tel: 972-501-5710 E-mail: Chowdhury.Hossan@adu.ac.ae Md. Atiqur Rahman Sarker (Lecturer) Department of Business Administration, East West University 43 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh Tel: 88-017-4427-0243 E-mail: mars@ewubd.edu Rumana Afroze (Lecturer) Department of Business Administration, East West University 43 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh Tel: 880-181-888-3767 Received: July 2, 2011 doi:10.5539/ijbm.v7n3p206 Abstract The RMG sector of Bangladesh has experienced disputes and violent protest by the workers in recent times. This study explores the reasons for recent unrest in the garment sector. Since managers are mainly responsible for applying human resource practices, this paper has given particular attention to their views on recent attitude changes of workers. Results show that mutual understanding among workers and managers is absent in the RMG sector. This study also states that high-work load, poor behaviour of line managers, low skills and low wage rates are the notable reasons for high job turnover and social unrest. Poor relationship between workers and supervisors is the main source of conflict. This study...
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...THE IMPACT OF SAVER TRAGEDY ON GARMENTS SECTOR IN BANGLADESH Wednesday April 24th, 2013 is an undoubtly a date that will live in infamy. In the worst ever building collapsed in Bangladesh. the nation as well as the rest of the world watched in horror as so many innocent lives were brutally ended when the eight story Rana Plaza housing four garment factories a branch of a private branch of a private bank and a number of shops came crashing down causing death and devastation all around. The death & injured list garments accidents is below. Some garment factory incident between (2005 to 2013) ACCIDENT DATE Spectrum sweater Industries April 11,2005 Limited(Ashulia) Phoenix Garments in tejgaon Garib & Garib sweator factory,Gazipur Ha-meem Groups of sportswear factory (Ashulia) Tazneen Fashion Fire in ashulia Rana Plaza collapse in savar GARMENTS NAME DEATH NUMBERS 75 workers At least25 workers At least 25 workers February 25,2006 February 25,2010 December14,2010 November24,2012 April24,2013 Sources: Newspaper, Reports At least 31 workers At least 112 workers At least 1129 workers Page 1 of 8 One can just simply and directly ask the questions after 42 years of being an independent nation, after years of development marching with the wings of time and technology, after so much advancement in various fields and after containing to move forward, raising hopes for the people who chose to believe is such a monumental tragedy acceptable? The reasons of collapse building...
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...The tremendous success of readymade garment exports from Bangladesh over the last two decades has surpassed the most optimistic expectations. Today the apparel export sector is a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and export industry in the country. The overall impact of the readymade garment exports is certainly one of the most significant social and economic developments in contemporary Bangladesh. With over one and a half million women workers employed in semi-skilled and skilled jobs producing clothing for exports, the development of the apparel export industry has had far-reaching implications for the society and economy of Bangladesh. Literature Review: Several authors have analyzed aspects of the garment industry in Bangladesh. Of the various aspects of the industry, the problems and the working conditions of female workers have received the greatest attention. There are several studies including the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) study by Salma Chowdhury and Protima Mazumdar (1991) and the Bangladesh Unnayan Parisad (1990) study on this topic. Both of these studies use accepted survey and research methodology to analyze a wealth of data on the social and economic background, problems and prospects of female workers in the RMG sector. Professor Muzaffar Ahmad looks at the industrial organization of the sector and discusses robustness and long-term viability of apparel manufacturing in Bangladesh. Wiigton (2000) provides a good overview of this...
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