August, 2012

Still considered as one of the biggest manufacturing industries for mass basics, Bangladesh is on its wayto ‘change’, bringing in more ‘fashion’.From an industry that has risenand survived on the traditional cut and sew approach, emerging are a growing number of companies that arestrong on the concept of in-house design and product development to become more competitive in order tostay a preferred and a full package supplier…Team AO speaks to heads of some established companies, including Beximco, Norwest Industries, Dhaka Sweater Group, Armana Group, Pioneer Apparels, to know their take on the same… Bangladesh is now an established Denim Jean manufacturing centre for the world, the dilemma today is to be or not to be a vertical setup…, many industry stalwarts share their views and the interesting debate continues. Lean has become a ‘must now’ to stay healthy. But it has many tools and what is needed is a scoping exercise to understand the need completely. Even more important than the tools are the people involved, who are instrumental to Lean implementation… Apparel Online Bangladesh initiates a series of 4 articles on Lean…the first part has interesting reviews from companies in Bangladesh who are vigorously into Lean.