Mahesh Ramanujam, president and CEO of US Green Building Council (USGBC), has commended the role Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has played in developing Bangladesh as the home of the highest number of green garment factories in the world.

The garment workers will not lose jobs for delays in joining workplaces because of the restrictions on movement during lockdown, said Faruque Hassan, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).

British clothing retailer Edinburgh Woollen Mill (EWM) Group has hit back after the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) threatened to blacklist the company for not paying its suppliers in the country and not responding to the calls of the association, by terming their threat “unproductive”.

Time will tell whether Bangladesh’s garment industry has its Wonder Woman. Last month, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) elected its first female president: Rubana Huq, managing director of the Mohammadi Group.

Although Rajuk officials had no engineering plan to knock down the much-talked about BGMEA building on the capital's Begunbari canal, they went to the site yesterday heavily equipped with demolition machinery.

The BGMEA building will be demolished by using controlled demolition method (blasting with explosives), ASM Raihanul Ferdous, project director of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) says.

Voting to the biennial election to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) for 2019-22 is going on to elect the board for the trade body.

YELLOW by BEXIMCO and BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology (BUFT) organised 'Fashion Fest 2019' at BUFT's permanent campus in Ashulia on 20 March, 2019.

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) gets one year and ten days for demolishing its 15-storey building which was constructed illegally in Dhaka’s Hatirjheel area.

The Supreme Court asks the BGMEA authorities to give an undertaking saying that they would not seek more time to relocate their 15-storey building constructed illegally at Begunbari canal and Hatirjheel Lake in Dhaka.

The survey covered 770 workers in Dhaka, Chittagong, Gazipur and Narayanganj, and found that the bulk of these workers could only produce their identity cards as proof of employment. This comes as a surprise as it is mandatory for BGMEA and BKMEA factories to provide appointment letters to workers employed by member companies.

At least three persons are injured in a clash between garment workers and employees of Bangladesh Garments Manufacturing Export Association (BGMEA) in Karwan Bazar of Dhaka.

The Supreme Court extends till October 5 its earlier order that gave six-month time to Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) to relocate its building from Hatirjheel area in Dhaka.

The BGMEA has proposed formation of a local agency that will operate along the same lines as Accord and Alliance which will run under an ombudsman chosen by the Prime Minister's Office.

Bangladesh cannot grab the apparel work orders, which are being shifted from China to other countries, due to

Several hundred workers of a garment factory blocked two streets in Mirpur-1 area for around 12 hours yesterday, protesting the sacking of their co-workers.

Bando Design and Comfit Composite Knit reached the final of the second BGMEA Cup after winning their respective semifinals yesterday,

The Supreme Court gives six-month time to Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) to demolish its building constructed illegally in Dhaka's Begunbari canal and Hatirjheel Lake.

A day after the government announced the proposed budget for 2016-17 fiscal year, the garment makers demand continuation of 0.3 percent source tax instead of increasing it to 1.5 percent.

Supreme Court upholds High Court ruling that ordered demolition of BGMEA building in Hatirjheel area of Dhaka.