Beximco visit

This weekend we had the pleasure of visiting Beximco Industrial Park, the largest private sector group in Bangladesh. The flagship platform now has operations and investments across a wide range of industries including textiles, trading, marine food, real estate development, hospitality, construction, information and communication technologies, media, ceramics, aviation, pharmaceuticals, financial services and energy. The Group sells its products and services in the domestic Bangladesh market as well as international markets. BEXIMCO is the largest employer in the private sector in Bangladesh and employs over 48,000 people worldwide. The Group’s global clients include some of the world’s best known brands including BT, BASF, Chevron, Calvin Klein, H&M, JC Penney, Macys, Zara, UNICEF, Royal Doulton and Villeroy & Boch.

We drove out to their Gazipur industrial park to take a look around and learn about their huge operation. Fascinating day! We toured their garments factories and also visited their Shinepukur ceramics as well.

Beximco textiles is unique because it is a fully vertically-integrated production. Most Bangladeshi factories purchase their fabric abroad and just assemble the garments here to advantage of the low labor costs. Beximco, on the other hand, starts with just cotton, and does all their own spinning, dying, weaving, and garment assembly.

We saw lots of machine things, that did lots of cool things, from spinning to the weaving to dying and such. Process was highly automated and high-tech with very few people working for them.