footwear

footwear

Globally Bata serves over one million customers per day, employs more than 30,000 people, operates in more than 5,000 international retail outlets, manages retail presence in over 70 countries and runs 27 production facilities across 20 countries. Illustration: TBS

Bata: The brand that taught us to wear shoes

Bata has been in the footwear business for 126 years

Workers are busy putting shoes into packets in a factory in Brahmanbaria. Because of Covid-19, production in shoe factories in Brahmanbaria has decreased by an average of 40 percent, causing a financial loss of Tk20 crore to traders and workers. Photo: Azizul Shonchay

Brahmanbaria’s footwear industry in tatters

Workers are processing shoes at Lace Footwear Factory at Bhairab in Kishoreganj. File Photo: Rehman Asad/TBS

Domestic footwear sector nears collapse

Rave shoes

Shoes shine online

Photo: Collected

Brac Bank offers 10% cashback on footwear purchase

Demand for handmade shoes has decreased with the advent of footwear made in mechanised factories, mostly imported from India and China. Photo: tbs

Workers losing jobs as Brahmanbaria footwear industry mechanises

Workers are processing shoes at Lace Footwear Factory at Bhairab in Kishoreganj. File Photo: Rehman Asad/TBS

Bhairab, nation’s footwear-producing region

$10m grants coming for 650 non-RMG firms to address compliance gap

$10m grants coming for 650 non-RMG firms to address compliance gap

Middlemen feast on Bhairab’s footwear industry

Middlemen feast on Bhairab’s footwear industry

Leather trade drops amid footwear export boom in last six years

Leather trade drops amid footwear export boom in last six years