Posted on 09/18/2011 2:03:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Pakistan's bid to get access for its textile products to the EU was blocked by Delhi.
As Abdus Salam Murshedey strolls through his vast garment factory in Dhaka, hundreds of seamstresses stitch shirts for export shipments he says will be boosted by a relaxing of Indian import rules.
Murshedey has built his company, Envoy Group, into a multi-million dollar firm with 18,000 employees on the back of orders from major Western high street brands including Zara, Next and French retail giant Carrefour...
"I'm going to have to recruit thousands of new workers to meet new Indian orders. Already we've received lots of queries from Indian retailers," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at tribune.com.pk ...
Is there a George Harrison ping list?
Wait, I thought East Pakistan, er, Bangladesh, was submerged due to global warming? ;’)
this will be very good for Bangladesh economically and also by opening up trade, it will neutralize the islamists and anti-India crowd in Bangladesh.
The only thing that neutralizes those jokers is an early grave. But it will be great for B’s economy. There are a couple other stories I found in the Bangladesh news search regarding B’s oil drilling and pricing.
On another note, a cotton yarn plant in North Carolina ceased operations. It was a completely automated process where bales of cotton were received at one end and spools of T shirt yarn were shipped out the other.
The robotic machines did all the work with few people involved.
The equipment was sold to a company in Bangladesh. That means jobs in existing plants that can’t compete with the full automation will be lost
Bangladesh has oil?? I didn’t know that!
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