Latest News

BGMEA Vice-President Vidiya Amrit Khan stressed that safeguarding workers’ physical and mental health was essential for the sector’s long-term sustainability. She reiterated that worker well-being remained a priority for BGMEA, saying that a healthy workforce translated into stronger productivity, greater resilience and improved competitiveness.

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, an Adviser on Environment, Forests and Climate Change said that the garment industry must play a more proactive role in environment-friendly production, protection of labour rights and sustainable management practices.

Market sources say more than eight textile manufacturing companies in the city have been acquired in recent weeks, with their combined output representing an estimated 0.8% of national textile production—one of the most substantial expansion moves in the sector this year.

Export earnings fell sharply between April and June 2025 before recovering moderately. Revenues stood at US $ 3.80 billion in September 2024, peaked at US $ 4.77 billion in July 2025 and slid back to US $ 3.82 billion by October.

A survey funded by two international agencies has identified jacked-up US tariff's developing but inconsistent economic repercussions on Bangladesh's garment export as factories largely tied to the American market are already displaying symptoms of strain.

Samir Kumar, Country Manager for Amazon India said that the company had been encouraged by early customer uptake and had “accelerated its expansion plans”, adding that Amazon expected to “end the year with well over 300 micro-fulfilment centres” and was opening two new sites each day across its three focus cities.