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Formal opening of WRAP office in Bangladesh

26/05/2011
Social and environmental compliance certification and training organisation WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production) has held a ceremony and special dinner to mark the official opening of its office in Dhaka and has promised that it will extend its certification programme to footwear manufacturers in the Asian country. The ceremony took place in the Bangladeshi capital in mid-May, with the country’s minister for commerce, Faruk Khan, presiding over the ribbon-cutting.

“Bangladesh has become an international powerhouse in the textiles and apparel sector,” said WRAP chief executive, Steve Jesseph, at the ceremony. “As international brands and retailers increasingly rely upon our certification to meet their compliance needs, we wanted to have a local office to better serve the factories and management, and to provide a wider range of training services to benefit all factories in Bangladesh. We are investing in Bangladesh and plan to hire additional staff in the near term as we expand our certification programme to the leather and footwear, automotive, pharmaceutical and ceramics sectors, and more.”

The president of the Exporters Association of Bangladesh, Salam Murshedy, welcomed the opening of the WRAP office in the country and said overseas buyers feel comfortable with factories that have WRAP certificates. “WRAP conducts rigorous compliance inspections and if a factory has the certificate, most of the buyers do not go through their own compliance inspection,” he explained.

Since 2000, WRAP has certified labor-intensive consumer products facilities in more than 70 countries and currently has 187 facilities certified in Bangladesh. Saifullah Khawaja has been appointed as the Bangladesh country manager.


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