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Bangladesh’s Denim Expert garment manufacturer continues to empower transgender workers

Even in today’s world of rainbow flags and inclusivity acronyms becoming longer and longer, being transgender is no cakewalk, more often, it seems like a catwalk gone wrong with a rather hostile audience, on a daily basis. Jeans maker Denim Expert Ltd. in Chittagong, Bangladesh wants to change that and has been hiring transgender employees,...

Business

Open Letter from An Apparel Manufacturer to German Chancellor

H.E. Angela Dorothea Merkel Honorable Chancellor Germany Dear Excellency, Me, Mostafiz Uddin, is a small apparel manufacturer from Bangladesh. If there is any favorite denim dress in your wardrove, there is ample possibility that it might be produced by loving stitches of my workers as my factory Denim Expert Limited has been working with...

Business |INTERVIEW Featured

Clothing manufacturers from Bangladesh: “This behavior is driving factories into their death throes”

For years, fashion companies insisted that suppliers comply with social standards, only to leave factories and their workers to their fate by cancelling orders during the coronavirus pandemic. More than a thousand clothing makers in Bangladesh are currently struggling through this bitter reality with their Western clients. For many consumers,...

Business

Denim Expert joins Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action

As the first denim company from Bangladesh, Chittagong-based Denim Expert Ltd. has joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), pledging to take climate action in line with the goals established by the Paris Agreement of 2015. “The science is clear. Climate change is happening fast and that is why Denim Expert Ltd....

Fairs

Bangladesh Denim Expo opens its 8th edition in Dhaka

London - The Bangladesh Denim Expo, one of the leading denim trade fairs in Asia, is set to open its doors today. Running from May 9 to 10 at the International Convention Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh the event is set to welcome more than 14,000 visitors from more than 50 countries around the world. The 8th edition of the Bangladesh Denim Expo...

Fashion |CEO INTERVIEW Featured

Why Denim Expert Ltd is one of the safest factories in Bangladesh

Five years ago today, the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh collapsed, marking the most deadly accident in the history of the apparel industry. Thousands of workers at their sewing machines and cutting stations were at work in the five factories when the building crumbled, trapping them under concrete and rubble. 1,138 of them died, while...