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  • Telenor launches digital health service in Bangladesh

    Telenor launches digital health service in Bangladesh

    Telenor Health, the digital health unit of the Telenor Group, has introduced a digital health service in Bangladesh.

    The company’s first digital offering, Tonic, is a mobile-based integrated digital service that includes: Tonic Jibon (life), the first Bengali-language services that provides free science-backed information on how to build a healthier and happier life; Tonic Daktar (doctor), which enables members to access medical advice on basic health topics via phone 24 hours a day; Tonic Discounts, which offers exclusive discounts up to 40% on key services at more than 50 popular hospitals across Bangladesh; and Tonic Cash, which provides members compensation if they have been hospitalized for three consecutive nights or more, paid directly to a member’s mobile banking wallet.

    Telenor said the service is being offered in the first phase exclusively to its 57 million Grameenphone customers.

    Bangladesh Health Minister Mohammad Nasim and State Minister of Posts & Telecommunication Tarana Halim attended the official launch in Dhaka.

    “Harnessing technology in order to address basic health challenges is an area of growing interest for Telenor, especially in countries like Bangladesh,” said Sigve Brekke, President and CEO of Telenor Group.

    Telenor has been present in the country since 1997 and now serves more than 185 million customers across Asia. The company established Telenor Health to scale Tonic and other digital health services to other markets upon success in Bangladesh.

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  • Bangladesh to disconnect unregistered SIMs soon

    Bangladesh to disconnect unregistered SIMs soon

    Bangladesh’s telecom minister Tarana Halim has revealed that SIMs that remain unregistered with biometric authentication will be deactivated shortly after the April 30 registration deadline.

    The minister said the unregistered SIMs will at first be deactivated for three hours on May 1 as a warning.

    SIMs that remain unregistered will be deactivated permanently “in a very short time” thereafter, she said.

    Only around 70 million of the nation’s 130 million mobile users have currently reregistered their SIMs through the biometric authentication system. But Tarana expressed hope that the registration process will be complete by the deadline.

    Bangladesh introduced the requirement to register SIMs with biometric authentication as part of efforts to prevent criminal activities including the illegal operation of VoIP businesses. Nearby Pakistan has already introduced such a requirement.

    The government, regulator BTRC and operators are now working to raise awareness among mobile users about the need to reregister their SIMs in time for the deadline.

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  • Robi launches Wi-Fi in buses and taxis

    Robi launches Wi-Fi in buses and taxis

    Robi Axiata has introduced Wi-Fi services in 100 buses and 100 taxis in Bangladesh as part of a government-led project to improve internet availability in the nation.

    The network services will be available for all users with Wi-Fi enabled devices. Robi will offer its customers purchasing data packs of at least 1GB free Wi-Fi quota to use on the network, and plans to introduce bundles with Wi-Fi quotas in the near future.

    Robi has formed partnerships with local broadband provider Qubee and technology services providers AccessTel, and Aamra to deploy and maintain the hotspots. The rollout on buses and taxis is being conducted in partnership with e-commerce and e-business aggregator Coalesce.

    Over the next six months, the Wi-Fi project will be extended to a total of 500 restaurants and cafes, 100 educational institutes, 10 public places, 350 buses, taxis and trains, as well as airport and rail stations.

    Robi is partnering with the government on a project to realize the vision of a Digital Bangladesh, and improving internet connectivity in the nation is a key component of this initiative.

    The move comes soon after Singaporean operator M1 and the nation’s Infocomm Development Authority commenced a trial of their own Wi-Fi service for public buses operated by Singapore’s main public transport operator SMRT.

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  • Mobile money service launched in Bangladesh

    Mobile money service launched in Bangladesh

    Financial inclusion in Bangladesh just took a stride closer to reality with the launch of a new international remittance receiving service via a partnership between MasterCard, Western Union, bKash and BRAC Bank.

    The new service enables bKash’s registered customers to use their mobile phones to receive remittances from abroad directly into their bKash accounts.

    A subsidiary of BRAC Bank and a joint venture between BRAC Bank and Money in Motion LLC of USA, bkash serves the low income masses of Bangladesh to achieve broader financial inclusion by providing services that are convenient, affordable and reliable.

    With 70% of the population living in rural Bangladesh many of whom have no access to formal financial services, it is also the eight largest receiver of international remittances in the world. Under 15% of Bangladeshis are connected to the prescribed banking system whereas over 68% have mobile phones.

    World Bank South Asia Financial Inclusion Index 2014These phones are not only devices for talking, but can be used for more useful and difficult processing tasks. bKash was conceived primarily to use these mobile devices and the universal telecom networks to extend financial services in a protected manner to the under-served distant population of Bangladesh.

    By using the new service, bKash’s registered customers can receive remittances from every Western Union send market and channel directly into their bKash account, 24 hours a day.

    MasterCard’s Matthew Driver said: “This relationship is another step towards achieving our global commitment to make the financial system accessible to 500 million more people by 2020. Working with companies such as bKash and Western Union is crucial to taking advantage of the latest technology; digitizing money transfers and supporting financial inclusion efforts in the South Asia region and worldwide. The choice, flexibility and convenience of this new bKash service will help to expand financial inclusion to some of the most remote parts of this thriving nation.”

    Western Union’s Jean Claude Farah said international money transfers over mobile phones will accelerate financial inclusion in Bangladesh where there are currently more mobile phones than there are customers with bank accounts.

    In 2011, the Bangladesh Bank, the country’s central bank, issued the Mobile Financial Services (MFS) Guidelines and mandated that the model where MFS must be bank-led but also clearly indicated that partnerships with mobile operators must be forged to reach customers. The first two MFS providers to emerged as leaders early on were BRAC/bKash and Dutch Bangla-Bank/DBBL.

    Like many parts of developing Asia, financial inclusion is part of the government via the central bank’s strategic plan, aimed at ensuring these products meet the needs of the traditionally underserved segments of society. Among the services on priority list include expanding access to financial services to women, poor and rural populations; and formalizing financial services by promoting registered transactions.

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  • Woodland looking at franchising

    Woodland looking at franchising

    Indian footwear and outdoor gear brand Woodland is planning to open stores in China, Malaysia and Singapore along with franchising its brand in other markets.

    Woodland is also taking the eCommerce route as part of its expansion, and is hiring social-media teams to run campaigns and online selling platforms in local languages.

    After announcing plans two years ago to launch 25 stores across China, it has subsequently opened “about a dozen stores” in Hong Kong. Its products are available through distributors in Singapore, and the company plans to enhance its global distributor networks. It aims to add at least 10 retail outlets internationally over the next two years.

    While the first few international stores will be company owned, MD Harkirat Singh says Woodland is open to franchisee formats for serious investors. The global stores will be a mix of independent stores and shops in shops.

    Singh says the product line in international markets will be customised to suit the region’s climate. according to the climatic conditions of the region. Woodland looks to tap the fast-growing extreme-weather outdoor gear market both in national and international markets, and claims to already have an 80 per cent market share in this segment in India.

    “While we have grown at an average of 15 to 20 per cent year-on-year in the past two to three years, the outdoor category has grown exceptionally in the past five years, says Singh. “Outdoor gear has become a lifestyle item, making our brand more popular.”

    Founded in Canada in 1992, Woodland is owned by Delhi-based Aero Group, which has its own leather-tanning and production units in Bangladesh, Canada, China, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, The Philippines and Vietnam, and as well as India.

  • H&M suppliers’ Bangladesh factories ‘unsafe’

    H&M suppliers’ Bangladesh factories ‘unsafe’

    Labour rights groups are calling on H&M to do more to protect garment workers in Bangladesh, after a review of strategic H&M suppliers revealed “severe delays” in urgent building repairs.

    The Clean Clothes Campaign, the International Labor Rights Forum, the Maquila Solidarity Network and the Worker Rights Consortium say the lack of action leaves “tens of thousands of workers at risk of death and injury”.

    The agencies were witness signatories to the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, and have published an update to an initial report into delays in safety repairs at 32 of H&M’s most strategic Bangladesh suppliers. The update, based on a review of publicly-available documentation carried out in January 2016, shows that all but one of H&M’s strategic suppliers remain behind schedule in making repairs and that over 50 per cent of them are still lacking adequate fire exits.

    “More than two and a half years into the process of the Bangladesh Accord every single mandated repair at H&M’s suppliers should have already been completed. However, the sad reality is that hardly any of H&M’s supplier factories in Bangladesh can be called safe,” said Scott Nova of the Worker Rights Consortium.

    The report does demonstrate some progress. Although the overall number of outstanding fire, electrical and structural renovations remains high at 37 per cent, the number of items reported as “behind schedule” at these 32 factories has decreased. However, the authors point out that, while this reflects actual progress in some cases, it is largely the granting of deadline extensions to factories rather than the completion of renovations that explains the improvement.

    “We are pleased that the pressure placed on H&M following our last report has resulted in some recent improvements, but are shocked that so much remains left to do,” said Liana Foxvog of the International Labor Rights Forum.

    “We urge H&M to provide meaningful funding for lifesaving safety renovations in order to put an end to the persisting delays.”

    Furthermore, the renovations required to ensure workers can safely exit a factory in the case of a fire are still subject to some of the most severe delays. In 13 per cent of the factories (compared to 16 per cent in September) lockable doors have not yet been removed; 38 per cent of the factories (compared to 55 per cent in September) still have not removed sliding doors and collapsible gates; and 55 per cent have failed to install fire-rated doors and enclosed stairwells (compared to 61 per cent in September. Any of these hazards could result in garment workers being trapped in a burning building, as has happened repeatedly in Bangladesh, including at H&M supplier, Garib & Garib, where 21 workers died.

    “H&M is able to increase profits in an extremely competitive climate, but yet the company is apparently incapable of getting all of its suppliers to carry out even simple actions such as removing a lock,” said Sam Maher of the Clean Clothes Campaign. “This is totally unacceptable.”

    Further information on the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh can be read here.

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  • Online retailer Daraz raises $55 M

    Online retailer Daraz raises $55 M

    Online retailer Daraz, which has presence in Pakistan Daraz.pk, Bangladesh Daraz.bd and Myanmar shop.com.mm, has secured EUR50 million ($55 million) in its first major financing round. 

    The investment comes from the CDC Group, the UK Government’s Development Finance Institution (DFI) focused on supporting and developing businesses in Africa and South Asia – as well as Daraz’s existing investor Asia-Pacific Internet Group (APACIG).

    Founded in Pakistan in 2012 as an online fashion business, it has since then has expanded its business model to a general marketplace for quality brands within electronics, home appliances, fashion and many other categories.

    The company said the funding will be used to continue to grow the business in existing markets and for expansion into other frontier markets in Asia.

    “Taking the e-commerce business model into these exciting markets is a fascinating journey. Although internet penetration is still relatively low, the market is developing fast and its potential is immense,” said Bjarke Mikkelsen, CEO of Daraz. “By making Daraz a success, we are not only building a great business but also creating jobs and infrastructure in the countries we operate in – that’s what makes it so exciting”.

    Daraz is part of APACIG, a joint venture between German internet platform Rocket Internet and Qatari telecommunications provider Ooredoo which began its operations in the region early in 2014.

    Today, it is one of the fastest growing internet platforms in the  region, currently 14 e-commerce companies in 15 countries.

    Hanno Stegmann, CEO of APACIG, said Daraz is one of the most promising companies in their portfolio.

    Last month, it  announced today an ambitious plan to launch one new startup company every three months, which it says is part of the strategy to build one of the largest Internet platforms in the APAC region.

    The first company to be launched as part of the  strategy will be online beauty marketplace Vaniday, starting in Australia. The marketplace offers curated selection of offers and can book treatments such as massages, hair appointments and manicures.

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  • Western retail giants restrict travel to Bangladesh after attacks

    Western retail giants restrict travel to Bangladesh after attacks

    Business executives from global clothing giants H&M Inditex and Gap have canceled trips to Dhaka this month after the killings of two foreigners, industry sources said, causing anxiety for Bangladesh’s $25 billion garment export sector.

    Bangladeshi suppliers to the world’s top brands said they didn’t expect the disruptions to hurt their orders for the year-end Christmas season.

    But the attacks, claimed by the Islamic State, increase the pressure on an industry which faces competition from other low-wage countries and is trying to repair its safety image after several fatal accidents.

    The United States and Canada have asked their diplomats to restrict their movements, and Britain warned of more attacks after an Italian aid worker and a Japanese man were shot dead a few days apart. Australia canceled a cricket tour.

    Bangladesh’s government, however, rejected the claim by the Islamic State and blamed the growing violence in the country on its domestic political opponents trying to show it in poor light. The attacks on foreigners, while rare, follow the killings of four Bangladeshi bloggers this year by machete-wielding assailants, and have spawned fear among the foreign community.

    “Our Western buyers panicked after the killing of the two foreigners within five days. Some buyers canceled their visits during this peak time when they are supposed to place more orders,” said Siddiqur Rahman, chief of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

    Shahidullah Azim, a garment exporter who supplies to Sears, Loblaws and Perry Ellis among others said one of his buyers asked him to come to Dubai instead, along with the clothing samples.

    Other foreign business executives asked for video conferences with their Bangladeshi counterparts, saying they couldn’t travel to Dhaka because of the warnings issued by their governments.

    “We are monitoring the situation in Bangladesh closely and we are taking the appropriate security measures. We are also in close dialogue with other brands regarding the situation,” H&M spokeswoman Anna Eriksson said.

    Marks & Spencer said the firm stopped travel to Bangladesh for seven days a few weeks ago. Travel has since resumed, a spokeswoman said, and added there was no impact on business orders.

    Gap declined to comment on a change in its travel plans. Tesco said it had not stopped business travel to Bangladesh, but had asked its employees to be vigilant and consider their movements carefully.

    MASKED MEN ON BIKES

    Bangladesh has deployed paramilitary soldiers on nighttime patrols in the diplomatic quarter of Dhaka and issued a nationwide ban on people riding pillion after the two attacks were carried out by masked men riding bikes.

    Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, who has dismissed claims that the Islamic State was operating in the Muslim majority country of 160 million, said on Wednesday that police were close to a breakthrough on the killings.

    “We have taken these attacks very seriously. We won’t spare the killers,” he said.

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed the rising tide of violence on the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its key ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, many of whose leaders are being prosecuted for war crimes during the 1971 war of independence.

    The opposition denies any involvement.

    A Dhaka-based garment manufacturer said the government had increased security in the area where foreigners lived, police had spoken to them and confidence was returning. Business was strong, but if there is another attack on a foreigner, it could hurt the sector.

    Azim warned of an even broader impact. “If this Islamic State issue persists for long it will not only hurt our businesses, it will destroy the country’s image,” he said. “The government should act promptly to bring the perpetrators to justice and let the world know that Bangladesh is safe.”

    The readymade garments industry is the economic lifeblood of the country, employing around 4 million people, most of them women. It is in the midst of a massive safety overhaul after the collapse of the Rana Plaza in 2013 in which more than 1,100 workers were killed and exposed the unsafe working conditions.

    In recent years, Bangladesh has also faced competition from Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar, although its wages remain low.

     

  • SCB plans to double its retail banking

    SCB plans to double its retail banking

    Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has planned to double its business size of retail banking in Bangladesh within next five years, a top executive of the bank said.

    “We’re working to double our retail banking business size in Bangladesh by 2020,”  Sebastian Arcuri, regional head for retail banking in ASEAN and South Asia of SCB, said in an exclusive interview with the FE Thursday.

    Currently, Mr Arcuri is overseeing the bank’s retail business in 11 countries such as Singapore, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.

    He arrived in Dhaka Wednesday night on a brief visit to Bangladesh.

    During his stay, Mr Arcuri met senior officials of Standard Chartered Bank. It was his maiden visit to Bangladesh.

    As part of the plan, SCB will put emphasis on small and medium enterprises (SME) sector to help achieve maximum economic growth in Bangladesh.

    “We’ll also extend financing in the SME sector that would help create employment opportunity across the country,” the SCB executive said while replying to a query.

    SCB is celebrating 110 years in Bangladesh this year.

    “We are proud to have the largest high-value segment customer base in the country, and several generations in the same family are banking with us. With continuous innovation in products and solutions, our bank has been the pioneer in retail banking of Bangladesh,” Mr Arcuri noted.

    SCB also plans to keep on bringing new products and services to the existing and potential valued customers to be their bank of choice.

    He said SCB has planned to introduce a new online solution in Bangladesh for opening new account within five minutes by 2016.

    At present, SCB is providing such solution in South Korea for opening accounts.

    “We’re now working to introduce such solution in Bangladesh within the stipulated time,” Aditya Mandloi, head of retail clients of the bank’s Bangladesh operation, told the FE while elaborating preparations in this regard.

    Regarding the latest market activities, the regional retail banking head said emerging markets are moving faster in terms of digital and smartphone adoption, leapfrogging compared to more mature markets.

    “We’re revamping digital platform so that clients can do on mobile phones and online everything previously done in a branch where possible,” he explained.

    Mr Sebastian Arcuri joined the UK-based foreign commercial bank in 2014. Earlier, he worked with HSBC Brazil as an executive director and head of retail banking and wealth management, and president of HSBC Insurance in the country.

    Banking is a cyclical business. Currently facing challenges, but SCB has resilience and diversification to respond, according to the senior banker.

    “Focus on the key clients, the emerging affluent and investment in products, new branches, better technology. Here for good – here for our clients for the long run – this will keep the bank going through the short-term cycles,” he noted.

    SCB is now focused on the fastest-growing cities in the world, which are in footprint of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

    “We are client-segment focused so we can address clients’ needs from a life-cycle approach. We are investing heavily in technology to be digital by design so we can deliver easy, convenient banking through whatever channel the client prefers, whenever the client wants it. The future can only be better,” Mr Arcuri observed.

    Standard Chartered has already made a series of key hires to step up the growth of its retail client business across the world.

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  • Daraz targets frontier Asian markets

    Daraz targets frontier Asian markets

    Online retailer Daraz is investing $56 million into creating beachheads on so-called ‘frontier markets’ in Asia: Myanmar, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

    Daraz is the leader in online retail in all three markets, selling apparel, accessories, shoes and beauty products for men and women, as well as a wide variety of electronics and general merchandise.

    The company is part of the Rocket Internet group which also owns Zalora and Foodpanda.

    It is planning a ‘mega sale’ on November 27, something like Amazon’s Black Friday in the US, offering a slew of special deals in the three Asian nations.

    Bangladesh, where it is putting most of its focus currently, will get the majority of the marketing spend, where it is partnering with local apparel brands such as Bata, Yellow and Ecstasy, as well as tech partners.

    Daraz Bangladesh chairman Sumeet Singh says the local site is attracting around 2 million visitors a month.

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  • Aldi targeted by Clean Clothes Campaign

    Aldi targeted by Clean Clothes Campaign

    German discounter Aldi is taking the heat from the latest campaign over fair working conditions at suppliers to major retail brands.

    The Clean Clothes Campaign is lobbying both Aldi and the Bangladesh government to take immediate action to ensure more than 1000 workers employed at the Swan Garment and Swan Jeans factories are provided with months of unpaid wages and bonuses they were allegedly deprived of following “the sudden and illegal closure of the factory” in April.

    Swan workers have been engaged in a sit-in outside the Dhaka Press Club since July 11 to demand action from the Bangladesh government and are due to meet with the Minister of Labour later this week to discuss their demands.

    The CCC says Swan Garments and Swan Jeans are both owned by the Swan Group, who also own a further three factories in the Dhaka area. The Swan Group websites lists a number of European brands as long term buyers from the Group including Lidl, Next, Bestseller, Dunnes and Walmart. Workers claim they were producing for Aldi, Piazza Italia and Motivi in the months prior to closure.

    “After almost three decades of operating in Bangladesh it appears the Swan Group started facing difficulties in 2014, when many of its long term buyers pulled their orders and the factories began to rely on subcontracting to maintain their business. In January 2015 the factory suddenly stopped paying salaries,” CCC said in a statement.

    “The Chinese owner of Swan Group, Ming Yuen Hon (Toby), attempted to flee the country on April 9, but was prevented from doing so by workers who confronted him at the airport and brought him back to the factory. This action forced Hon to pay one month salary to the workers, but on April 10 the two factories were illegally declared closed. According to his family Hon committed suicide some time in the following weeks.

    Workers have been engaged in various demonstrations since April 19 to demand their salaries and the reopening of factories.

    “Concerned that their fate will be the same as the Tuba Group workers who last year were forced to go on hunger strike to demand the wages and bonuses they were owed, several hundred Swan workers have been participating in a permanent sit down protest outside the Dhaka press club since July 12, and a number of workers have been injured by police using force to attempt to disperse protesters. In response the Ministry of Labour and the BGMEA have been promising that steps would be taken to resolve the issue of unpaid wages, but as the Eid holiday passed workers continued to wait for the money they are owed.”

    Joly Talukder, joint general secretary of the Garment Workers Trade Union Centre in Bangladesh said, the government is ignoring the protest, and the state of workers, and has not taken any step to meet the genuine legal demand to pay the arrears.

    CCC says the problem of sudden and illegal closures of garment factories is growing in Bangladesh, in part due to changes in the industry triggered by the Rana Plaza collapse.

    “These closures are leaving thousands of workers unemployed and deprived of their legally owed severance pay. To date little action has been taken by the Bangladesh government or international brands and retailers to ensure workers are not left without the wages and benefits they are owed.

    “Swan Garments is one of many factories that has closed illegally in Bangladesh over the last year. As in the majority of cases it is workers who are left with nothing – not even the wages and severance payments they are owed” says Samantha Maher of the Clean Clothes Campaign. “It is unacceptable that once again workers are being left to pay the price for bad factory management, impossible buyer demands and government inaction and we urge Aldi and the Ministry of Labour to ensure justice for the Swan workers.”

    The CCC did not define a “legal closure” of a factory, or explain where they expected the money to come from if the company was insolvent.

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  • Columbus Espresso launches Bangladesh cafe chain

    Columbus Espresso launches Bangladesh cafe chain

    A US espresso roaster which has developed a retail coaching and partnership idea with cafe companies, has introduced its first retailer outdoors the US.

    Columbus, Ohio espresso roaster Crimson Cup Espresso & Tea has labored with a gaggle of Bangladeshi businessmen to launch Columbus Espresso Store within the metropolis of Dhaka. It’s the first in a deliberate chain of cafes throughout the nation.

    Companions Mohaimin Mostafa, Rehanur Rahman, Mirza Abdul Khaled and Tarek Rafi Bhuiyan have created an inviting area for Dhaka residents to take pleasure in handcrafted espressos, café mochas, lattes and different handcrafted espresso drinks. A number of of the companions grew a ardour for American espresso tradition whereas learning in campus espresso homes as overseas change college students within the US. Returning to Bangladesh, they noticed a chance to capitalise on the rising reputation of American-style espresso of their predominantly tea-drinking nation.

    Mostafa and Bhuiyan loved Crimson Cup espresso whereas learning at Ohio State College in Columbus. They reached out for help by means of Crimson Cup’s 7 Steps to Success espresso franchise various program. Based mostly on Crimson Cup’s founder Greg Ubert’s e-book, Seven Steps to Success within the Specialty Espresso Business, this system teaches potential enterprise house owners the whole lot they should open a espresso store. Palms-on consulting covers the whole lot from writing a espresso store marketing strategy and discovering the proper location to picking gear, hiring and coaching employees, attracting clients and extra.

    After simply 9 months of planning and development, they have been able to open the primary in a collection of espresso homes deliberate in Bangladesh.

    Mostafa traveled to the Crimson Cup Brew Lab in Columbus to finish preliminary coaching. When Columbus Espresso was able to open, 7 Steps Coach Steve Bayless traveled to Dhaka to show Columbus Espresso managers and employees about drink preparation and different points of working a espresso home.

    Columbus Espresso Store presents a variety of handcrafted scorching, iced and frozen espresso drinks in addition to scorching and iced teas. Sandwiches and fresh-baked items spherical out the menu. Clients can even purchase luggage of Crimson Cup beans to brew at residence.

    The 2000 sqft inaugural Columbus Espresso Store is open from 11am till midnight every day on the second flooring Home # 25, Street # 11, Block H, Banani, Dhaka.

    The subsequent branches are deliberate for Dhanmondi, Uttara and Mirpur in Dhaka, and in Chittagong, Sylhet and Cox’s Bazar.

    Crimson Cup Espresso & Tea, based in 1991, has hand-roasted specialty espresso in Columbus, Ohio and taught unbiased enterprise house owners how to achieve success by means of its espresso store franchise various program, which features a espresso store marketing strategy template. Sustainably sourced Crimson Cup espresso is accessible by way of a community of greater than 350 unbiased espresso homes, grocers, school and universities, eating places and foodservice operations throughout 29 states of the US – and in Bangladesh – in addition to the corporate’s personal Crimson Cup Espresso Home cafe within the Columbus suburb of Clintonville.

  • Rana Plaza fund full

    Rana Plaza fund full

    The Clear Garments Marketing campaign says the Rana Plaza Belief Fund has reached its $30 million goal, which means victims of the catastrophe might be paid in full.

    The marketing campaign says the fund was accomplished with the assistance of “a big nameless donation”.

    The fund was set as much as present help to victims of the 2013 catastrophe when 1129 staff have been crushed to demise when a multistorey constructing filled with sweatshops producing clothes largely for multinational manufacturers, collapsed.

    The CCC has been campaigning since instantly after the catastrophe in April 2013 to demand that manufacturers and retailers offered compensation to its victims.

    “Now that each one the households impacted by this catastrophe will lastly obtain all the cash they’re owed, they will lastly concentrate on rebuilding their lives,” stated CCC spokesperson Ineke Zeldenrust.  “This can be a exceptional second for justice.”

    The Rana Plaza Donors Belief Fund was arrange by the ILO in January 2014 to gather funds to pay awards designed to cowl lack of revenue and medical prices suffered by the Rana Plaza victims and their households when the Rana Plaza constructing collapsed within the garment business’s worst ever catastrophe.

    In November 2014, the Rana Plaza Coordination Committee introduced that it might want round $30 million to pay in full over 5000 awards granted via the scheme. Nevertheless, the failure of manufacturers and retailers linked to Rana Plaza to offer enough and well timed donations into the fund has, till now, prevented the cost of the awards from being accomplished.

  • Bangladesh garment workers still face abuse, danger despite reforms

    Bangladesh garment workers still face abuse, danger despite reforms

    Two years after the deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, employees in Bangladesh’s garment sector still face exploitative and dangerous working conditions despite government labour reforms, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.

    While the government and global brands have made progress in improving safety conditions for Bangladesh’s millions of garment workers, many still contend with abuse at work, delayed wages, and threats when they try to form a union, an HRW report said.
    “Clearly, it is not enough to focus on safety alone,” Phil Robertson, the rights group’s Asia deputy director, said in a statement.

    “Recent tragedies at Bangladeshi factories demonstrate that dangerous working conditions are linked to the failure to respect workers’ rights, including their right to form unions which can help them to collectively bargain for improved safety.”

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