Having started operations in its second factory in 2021, the company has ramped up about 50 per cent of the capacity, Sanuja Herath Chief Operating Officer, Brandix Casualwear Bangladesh Ltd told timesonline in an interview in Dhaka recently. “We are now over a decade in Bangladesh after starting our first factory in 2010. Sri Lanka is focused on the fast, high-end, and highly technical products. We wanted to focus on more volume-driven businesses when we decided to expand and identifiy Bangladesh as the right place to do so.” This is when the company acquired a manufacturing plant in Cummila near the Dhaka Chittagong Highway. “It is situated in an export processing zone and is 110 km away from the airport as well as 130 km away from the Chittagong seaport,” Mr. Herath added.
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