Recently a two day long Investment Road Show event to raise awareness and attract foreign investors to Bangladesh was held at the Main Hall of East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, in London UK. Syed Abdus Samad, Executive Chairman of the Bangladesh’s Board of Investment; Abdul Matlub Ahmad President, FBCCI; Atiur Rahman, Governor, Bangladesh Bank; Iqbal Ahmed OBE, President, UK Bangladesh Catalysts of Commerce and Industry; Gavin Serkin, Emerging Markets Editor-at-large, Bloomberg; Dr. Towfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury, Honorable Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh on Power, Energy and Mineral Resources and Md Abdul Hannan, Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to the UK spoke on the occasion. There were session like “Regulatory Framework in Bangladesh for Investment”, where Md. Nojibur Rahman, Chairman, National Board of Revenue, Bangladesh presented a key note paper . In another session Md. Saiful Islam, Managing Director of Picard Bangladesh Ltd. presented a key note paper on the Prospect of Leather & Leather Goods in Bangladesh. In that session FBCCI President Abdul Matlub Ahmad said that the leather industry has crossed the export record of $ 1 billion mark in 2013-14. Bangladesh earned $ 1.30 billion from exports of leather, leather goods and footwear in 2014-15 fiscal.
In a way of expressing his reaction to ICE Business Times Abdul Matlub Ahmad said, “from a country known mostly for its catastrophic disasters, Bangladesh now has emerged as a tiger among the Asian countries. The response among the foreign investors is quite satisfactory and we are on the right track.”
