Business Leather Products to
Create Employment in Bangladesh

Business Leather Factory
Brand Manager
Sarkar Masum

Business Leather
Factory

What is Business Leather Factory?

  • Owning 4 shops in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Kanagawa.
  • Opening temporary shops at Narita airport, Haneda airport, Odakyu Shopping Mall and Marui Shopping Mall.
  • The number of employees at Bangladesh factory exceeded beyond 350 people.
  • Won the Rakuten Shop of the Year Award 2015.

HISTORY

2014.01

"Business Leather Factory" was established as a genuine leather item brand for business persons

2014.03

Started sales on the internet

2014.05

Won the first place at the"card case section" of Rakuten website

2014.07

Moved the factory to the new location to expand the business

Moved the factory to the new location to expand the business

2014.12

Made the largest sales record as a temporary shop at AMU EST Hakata station

2014.12

The number of employees exceeded 120 person in Bangladesh

The number of employees exceeded 120 person in Bangladesh

2015.01

Made the largest sales record as a temporary shop at Fukuoka airport

Made Made the largest sales record as a temporary shop at Fukuoka Airport

2015.07

Made the largest sales record as a temporary shop at Hiroshima Airport

2015.08

Made the largest sales record as a temporary shop at Takamatsu Airport

2015.06

Opened the first official shop at Tenjin under ground shopping center, Fukuoka city

Opened the first official shop at Tenjin underground shopping center, Fukuoka city

2015.10

Launched the official brand website

2015.10

The number of employees exceeded 300 person in Bangladesh factory

The number of employees exceeded 300 person in Bangladesh factory

SOCIAL IMPACT

SOCIAL BUSINESS

Pioneering the New Demands for Business Items

Providing high quality business leather items with very reasonable prices

We succeeded in getting new demands by suggesting the genuine leather products with similar prices of the synthetic leather products to the customers who are used to buy synthetic leather items instead of genuine ones because of the expensive prices of the genuine ones. Also, we are specialized in the business scenes and we also work on differentiating our products from other competitors’. We focus on business items exclusively and our customers can get all business leather items with the same color. “The Leather Items to make you more elegant and professional” which will make you feel like getting one after another. The concept which was likely but not actually existing and the high quality with the extraordinary reasonable price have never cut off the line of repeaters.

Providing high quality business leather items with very reasonable prices

Where Did the Idea Come From?

New Brand for more employment opportunities

In 2011, we met Faruk Hossain, and started “JOGGO” the custom order business in order to solve the poverty issue in Bangladesh. We created a training room in the factory and concentrated on human capacity building to train employees to get the professional technics from zero base. We train our employees with full time salary during their training, and work on providing “comfortable work environment” where our employees can feel the worth of their work. Hearing the reputation of our factories, friends of our employees and even employees from other factories started desiring to work with our factory, and the number is growing.

However, it will take time to provide job opportunities to all people with just one brand. Therefore, we established another brand “Business Leather Factory” to create more employment. We are aiming to create more job opportunities by establishing “genuine leather brand specialized in the business scenes” which never existed.

Where Did the Idea of BLF Come From?

For More Employment in Bangladesh

Our employment policy prioritizes women and non-experienced workers

We decided to establish a leather product factory in order to create employment in Bangladesh and improve the living standard of local people. In Bangladesh, there is a beautiful religious festival once a year. In the festival, people consume lots of beef, and at the same time plenty of cowhide is left behind as garbage. We make it possible to utilize the local resource and create employment by turning the cowhide into leather products.

Moreover, we set our employment policy to prioritize those who are from poor family and have responsibility to look after their families, those who have no previous experience, and find it difficult to be employed by other factories, as well as those who tend to face labor discrimination especially women.

Establishing leather items factory, to make more employment for poor people

The Ideal Society the Leader Aims to Create

To establish a “Borderless Village” with plenty of residential areas and public facilities

The creation of employment is just the first step for the goal of Borderless Leather Factory. We are planning on building the support system with less burden on our employees by providing them with facilities where workers who travel away from home can live in, as well as environment where we can look after children of mothers working for our factory. Furthermore, we have started considering running a school to tackle the issue of education which is related to poverty in the root cause. We will not limit ourselves within the framework of creating employment, but will approach more comprehensively in order to solve social problems in Bangladesh. There, we are hoping to propose an “ideal factory” to be the role model in Bangladesh.

In addition, there are still many places in the world such as Argentine in South America and Ethiopia in Africa where people do not utilize cowhide as local resource while they consume cow as much as Bangladeshi people do. In these areas, if we could establish a factory with the high quality production Technics, we would be able to create large employment. We believe that it is our mission to improve the lives of Bangladeshi people as soon as possible, and duplicate this social model all over the world.

The Ideal Society the Leader Aims to Create