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SUCCESS CRITERION OF MENUFACTURING

SECTOR OF A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

A KNITWEAR INDUSTRY OF BANGLADESH PERSPECTIVE

Group Members

Sujon Saha (17) Borhan Uddin (21) Nepal Chandra Dhar (30) S.M. Khairul Islam (42) Arijit Kumar Saha (57)

Introduction

In the early 1980s, there were small-scale independent investments in the readymade garments (RMG) sector. At that time, it was not considered viable and received very little government attention.

Within a decade, the RMG industry in Bangladesh had flourished and by the early 1990s it had emerged as a major employer. Under the dynamic leadership of the private sector together with policy support from the government, the export oriented RMG industry has shown a spectacular growth during the last two and a

half decades.
In the last couple of years Bangladesh has emerged as an important supplier of

quality Knit wear products like- T-shirts, trousers and Sweaters

in the global

market.

Evolution of Knitwear Exports

Bangladeshi

KNIT WEAR products are mainly exported to the US and the EU markets. With their earnest efforts from late 1980s the RMG exporters were able to export US$ 393.26 million in FY 95. Of this amount, the shares of the EU and the USA were US$ 274 million and US$ 98 million respectively. The cumulative average growth rate of the sector is about 20%. But BKMEA says it will be 25% within 2015

Development of Knitwear Production in Bangladesh

That

knitwear manufacturing activities in Bangladesh have spatiality is evident from the unevenly distribution of these activities over several pockets in the country. However, there is a large concentration of these activities in Narayanganj. history can shed lights behind this geographic concentration of interconnected businesses emerged in the area. Narayanganj is a town in central Bangladesh, 20 km southeast of Dhaka, the capital.

Economic

Capacity and Actual Production of Knitwear Firms

The major strength of the Bangladesh textile industry is the pool

of motivated workers. The sector has created jobs for about 2.5 million people from less than a thousand in FY 91 to about 7 thousands in FY 10. knitwear sector is the labor intensity in the production process

The number of factories in the RMG sector increased in tandem

The major impetus behind the phenomenal growth of the

The core strength of the knitwear sector is its backward linkage the knitwear sector is the highest contributor in terms of both

gross and net export earnings

Organization and Growth: Firm Level Perspectives

The organization of production and marketing is a complex

juncture of overlapping dimensions. The most straight forward pattern consists of firms that attempt to control every conduit in the production and marketing process.

Organization and Growth: Firm Level Perspectives [Contd.]

Organization and Growth: Firm Level Perspectives [Contd.]

Experiences of Business Operation

Experience seems to be a catalytic factor in knitwear business. Most

of the firm owners had prior experience in the same line of business before venturing into the current ones.
This observation equally holds for the majority of the shareholders

in case of partnership firms. Many of the shareholders reported to have involved into the business first as professionals.
Gradually they gained both confidence and experiences in the

crucial areas of the business and started similar business on their own.

Raw Materials
Value addition in knitwear sector is the highest among the RMG

manufacturing in Bangladesh. It varies between 70% and 90% depending on the type of products and firms. Scope of the business and production patterns mainly influence the choice of raw materials. except for cases where 14 orders are tied with some specific origins of raw materials. Self-procurement of raw materials is most common. contracts where the buyer supplies the raw materials.

At present procurement of raw materials from local market is common

Larger firms procure raw materials on their own except for some

Almost all of the medium firms self-procure raw materials.

In contrast, only a few small firms procure raw materials on their own;

most of them receive the required ram materials with the orders because many of them are engaged in Sub-contract from medium firms.

Enterprise Formation and Entrepreneurial Growth

Within two years of operations majority of large

firms reach the milestone and become profitable and sustainable. The history for medium firms is bit different. Most of the medium firms were established in the early 1990s. On average most of them are in operations for the last 15 years.