Chorka Textile Ltd, a priority of Pran-RFL Group, has been expanding its capability to export $200 million-value lingerie and different garment gadgets by the following two years. 

This was in response to large volumes of labor orders coming in with the reopening of outfitters in Europe and the US.

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In fiscal 2020-21, the corporate exported lingerie value $90 million from its Narsingdi-based garment manufacturing unit, Ahsan Khan Chowdhury, chairman and chief govt officer (CEO) of Pran-RFL Group, instructed a gaggle of journalists at his manufacturing unit on Saturday.

The manufacturing unit has expanded its manufacturing capability and launched manufacturing in double shifts to fulfil its goal within the subsequent two years. It has invested $70 million to this point since Chorka was established in 2013.

Chorka’s essential product was lingerie however not too long ago it diversified into bras, panties, t-shirts, sweat shirts, polo shirts, leggings, physique fits and hoodies to attain the export goal, stated Pran-RFL Group, which has an annual turnover of almost $2 billion.

Currently, 120 strains produce eight million items of garment gadgets in a month by means of 7,000 employees, 51 per cent of whom are feminine and 49 per cent male.

The firm sources 50 per cent of uncooked supplies from the native market and imports the remaining like yarn, fancy laces, artificial materials, elastic and stitching thread.

The international market dimension of lingerie is $42 billion and 30 to 35 native firms have been exporting $four billion-value value of lingerie over the past three years, stated Chowdhury.

Chorka primarily exports its items to the US, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK, Canada, Australia, Poland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Switzerland, China and India.

“The lingerie markets have been growing every year globally. We have a lot of potential to grab more lingerie markets,” stated Chowdhury.