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Truck Lagbe Comes Full Circle as a Digital Trucking Platform with the Launch of Ancillary Services for Truck Drivers and Owners
Dhaka-based digital trucking startup Truck Lagbe has slowly been delving into ancillary services for the trucking community aka truck drivers and owners with an ambition to build a platform for everything trucking in Bangladesh. Over the last one and a half years, it...
A Single Mother’s Journey to Become A Successful Aquaculture Entrepreneur
A woman’s life is full of struggles and hardships. I was also no different. After my marriage, I looked over our family and the household as any other woman. My husband earned enough to fulfill our needs. However, no happiness lasts forever. He became terribly sick in...
Sonia Bashir Kabir shares Her Victory Story
We are celebrating 50 years of independence by taking inspiration from the women around us. Dabur partnered with The Business Standard to highlight such tales of inspiration. Five stop entries will be selected to represent the women who have achieved the most against...
From NewsCred to Welcome: The journey of a Bangladeshi company becoming a global one
In an interview with The Business Standard, the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Welcome, Shafqat Islam, said his company's acquisition was the biggest in the history of Bangladesh. When NewsCred started its journey in 2007, the concept of start-ups was new in...
Golam Murshed: The architect of a billion-dollar company
Golam Murshed, an entrepreneurial and visionary young business leader, is the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited. He has been serving Walton in various important positions for over a decade. Murshed is most...
He becomes industrialist after quitting bank job
He was a banker. After independence, he quit his job and became a businessman. His business started with the import of tyres. Then he focused on setting up an industry. He becomes successful at whichever business he starts. He had a lucrative job in a bank. After the...
How Rokomari Has Become an Important Player in Ecommerce, Complex World of Selling Books Online, and Digital Platform
Rokomari was launched in 2012 with a small team, about 10,000 books, and a handful of publishers on its platform. Over the past 8 years, the company has grown into one of the dominant players in online commerce — particularly in books, introduced a long list of...
Meet a supply chain ‘guru’ who handled a pandemic supply chain crisis and intends to pass on the torch
When the pandemic hit last year, Mohammed Zia Uddin took a couple of timely, crucial initiatives to meet the sudden spike in demand for hygiene products. His management style and merit even earned him a supply chain excellence award last year. When the Covid-19...
Bangladeshi engineer Bashima named in Forbes 30 under 30 list
Bashima Islam, an engineer from Bangladesh, has been named in the Forbes 30 under 30 list 2022 under the science category. "Islam, an incoming assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), is engineering the next generation of internet of things [IoT]...