A website for a garment factory in Gazipur, Savar or Ashulia

The three areas in numbers

These are the most recent counts we could verify. They come from different sources and dates, and each source draws the area its own way, so read them as a sense of scale rather than an exact census.

The April 2025 statement also lists other regions, and its regional figures do not add up to its national total of 2,024 BGMEA factories. It does not explain the difference, so treat the numbers as approximate.

Gazipur: the biggest crowd

BGMEA’s Gazipur and Mymensingh group is about twice the size of its Savar, Ashulia and Jirani group (854 against 403 listed factories). A buyer shortlisting suppliers around Gazipur is choosing between many factories that look alike on paper. For your website this means the first screen has to answer four things at once: who you are, where you are, what you make, and what proof you can show.

Savar and Ashulia: two groups in one area

Savar also holds the Dhaka Export Processing Zone, which BEPZA runs. A factory inside the zone and a factory outside it sit under different bodies, so a buyer needs to know which one you are. If you are in the zone, say so and name the authority you are registered with. If you are outside it, say which association you belong to and show your membership details. BGMEA lists Savar, Ashulia and Jirani as one group, so use every place name a buyer might type for you.

A tighter market makes every enquiry count

Prothom Alo reported on 6 July 2026 that, in the first six months of that year, 80 BGMEA member factories dismissed or retrenched 19,188 workers: 40 in Gazipur, 22 in Savar and Ashulia, and 18 in Dhaka. Of the 80, 27 had since shut down. We do not know the causes. What it shows is that a buyer has plenty of choice, so a factory that is easy to verify and easy to contact has an advantage.

Match your listings to your website

The Export Promotion Bureau runs a public Exporter Database. An exporter’s page there shows the factory address, thana and district, HS codes for the products, and a business contact. SourceReady also points buyers to the BGMEA and BKMEA member directories. Buyers who find you in one place will check the others, so keep everything consistent:

• The same company name, spelled the same way, on your website and in every listing.
• The same factory address, with the thana and district.
• Only the HS codes and product categories you really export.
• A contact person and a phone number or email that someone answers.

A simple site for a factory

This is the structure we suggest. It is our own recommendation, built around the checks in what overseas buyers check before they reply.

What to gather before we start

• Copies of your trade licence and TIN details.
• Each certificate’s issuing body, number and expiry date.
• Whether you are covered by the RSC, and the dates of your recent audits.
• Your product categories and the capacity range you will stand behind.
• Ten to fifteen real photos of your factory floor and products.
• Your address with the thana and district, and a map pin.
• A contact person, a reply time you can keep, and the languages you want.

Getting started without a trip to a meeting

We work by phone, WhatsApp and video call, so you do not need to take time out for a meeting. The first step is a free 15-minute call. Then we write the scope and a fixed price down before any work starts. Our exporter website package is listed at ৳80,000 (pilot price), excluding VAT, and takes about 14 days. See the exporter website package and the glossary for terms like RFQ and HS code.

What we have not done yet

We have not yet built a client site for a factory in these areas. Our live work is the website and supplier portal for Sleek Apparels, a garment company in Dhaka that our founder runs. The other projects on our work page are labelled concept projects. This page is a checklist and a plan, not a case study.