A group of e-commerce platforms is going to jointly organise an online shopping campaign named “The 10-10 Festival” that will kick off on Monday.

After a two-year gap for the pandemic, an annual National Furniture Fair kicked off in Dhaka last Thursday with manufacturers trying to woo customers with free home deliveries and discounts of 10 per cent to 25 per cent. 

Sea fishers recently urged the government to ensure that imported fish undergo certain tests apart from those related to checking for the presence of health-hazardous chemicals, namely formalin.

Unilever Bangladesh launched the 13th edition of BizMaestros, one of the most awaited business case competitions among the country’s top graduates.

 Two out of three lightweight plastic items used in Bangladesh end up mismanaged, mostly due to a lack of source segregation and household collection infrastructure, said an expert yesterday. 

Several people from two upazilas of Jhenaidah are earning well from fish farming but rather than selling traditional breeds for food, they provide aquarium fish to locals looking to spruce up their homes.

The Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) is conducting further studies on possible outcomes of the country joining the world’s largest China-led trade deal, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Senior Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh said yesterday.

Trading of government securities is going to start on the stock exchanges from Monday in a bid to make general investors accustomed to dealing with these treasury bonds and bills. 

Loans written off by banks in Bangladesh declined in the first half of 2022 despite the upward trend of default loans. 

eGeneration Limited posted a 2.14 per cent increase in profit in the financial year that ended on June 30. 

Beximco Ltd has raised 32.5 million euros from Dutch financial institution ING Bank in order to expand its knit fabric facility, said a press release yesterday.

Smart Technologies (BD), Sony’s distributor in Bangladesh, launched a new Bravia K series of OLED and Google TV in the country. 

Bangladesh has a lot of potential to attract foreign funds to industries which abide by good environmental, social and corporate governance, according to analysts yesterday. 

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has rejected Baraka Power Limited’s application aimed at issuing a Tk 150 crore fully redeemable non-convertible zero-coupon bond. 

Jinqiu Global Textile Bangladesh Ltd, a China-Bangladesh joint venture company, is going to invest $15.63 million to set up garments accessories manufacturing industry in Ishwardi Export Processing Zone (IEPZ).

As a CEO, I had once asked the chief procurement officer and the chief technology officer to deliver 50 per cent savings on radio network items for the implementation of an ambitious growth plan. They looked at each other in disbelief and told me that they had already squeezed the vendors so much in the last few years that it would simply be impossible.  

The Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM) under the agriculture ministry in early August had announced that marketing of miniket rice in the country’s markets has to be stopped.  

Like always, investors and experts apprehend that there will be challenges in implementing the new industrial policy to achieve maximum benefits due to a lack of ownership and coordination among line ministries and various stakeholders.

Custom House Chattogram has auctioned off 78 luxury cars whose brands included that of BMW, Land Rover, Mitsubishi, Mercedes and Lexus and which attracted individual bids of a maximum of Tk 2.5 lakh to Tk 50.5 lakh. 

Refiners in Bangladesh have cut the price of soybean oil and the new rates have started to take effect in the kitchen markets of Dhaka.