Leather sector lagging 30yrs behind: experts
Speakers at a discussion meeting on Sunday said that the Bangladesh leather industry has been going through a tough situation over the past 10 years...
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PRE-BUDGET DISCUSSION: Businesses demand tax cuts, duty benefits
The industrialists in the leather goods and ceramic sectors, real estate businesses and reconditioned car traders demanded various tax cuts and duty benefits in the upcoming national budget for fiscal year 2025-26...
3-day Leathertech Bangladesh starts
Leathertech Bangladesh on Thursday inaugurated an international technology tradeshow 鈥楲eathertech Bangladesh 2024鈥� that focuses on leather, footwear machinery, shoe materials, chemical and accessories for footwear and leather-goods sector...
Govt should implement tannery worker鈥檚 minimum wage early
THE relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh to Dhaka鈥檚 outskirts of Savar had been in discussions until the relocation was somewhat complete a few years ago, with some prickly issues such as pollution still rearing the head. The relocation project began in 2003 on a High Court order of 2001 to save the moribund River Buriganga. The tannery units...
Interim govt to support domestic leather sector
Finance and commerce adviser Salehuddin Ahmed said on Sunday that the interim government would provide support to the leather sector that had potential to diversify the export basket dominated mainly by readymade garments...
Time-bound action plans being formulated for leather industry dev: industries secy
Senior secretary of the industries ministry Zakia Sultana on Monday informed that time-bound action plans were being formulated for the development of the leather industry...
Export of leather footwear dips, non-leather one rises
Bangladesh鈥檚 leather footwear exports in July-May of the current financial year 2023-24 declined by nearly 26 per cent while the exports of non-leather footwear...
South Korea keen to invest in jute, leather sectors
South Korean ambassador Park Young-sik has聽expressed his country鈥檚 keen interest to invest in the jute and leather聽sectors of Bangladesh for mutual benefits of both the countries...