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141 businesses
Retail & wholesaleWholesaling medicines to pharmacies. DGDA licenses it separately - Tk 10,000 new, Tk 5,000 renewal, valid two years - but no pharmacist is required.
Light manufacturing & workshopA unit pressing mosquito coils from sawdust and insecticide. BSTI certification is compulsory and the Department of Environment will not clear a site in a residential area.
Retail & wholesaleSelling hooks, rods, reels, nets and fish medicine. Rods Tk 455-1,552, reels Tk 641-6,705. Current jal and China duari nets are illegal - stocking them means seizure and a mobile court.
Digital & B2B servicesTyping and list work from home. Easy to enter, very low starting pay - one named freelancer's first month was USD 13, and reaching a lakh a month took four years.
Food processingSelling kacchi, tehari and morog polao by the plate. Almost the entire cost is meat - the raw material in one pot of shahi mutton kacchi is Tk 13,265-15,054.
Retail & wholesaleRetailing bats, balls, jerseys and rackets. Children's bats Tk 109-511, English willow Tk 2,250-3,190, footballs Tk 484-1,200. Demand follows schools, clubs and the tournament season.
Home & local servicesStitching, soling and polishing shoes. A polish is Tk 30 in Sylhet with Tk 400-500 on an average day; one launch-based repairer takes Tk 700 some days and under Tk 200 on others.
Home & local servicesSupplying guards on contract. The service charge is Tk 9,000-10,000 per guard while wages are Tk 8,000-15,000 - that gap is the whole business.
Food processingMixing maize, soybean meal and bran into poultry feed sold in 50 kg sacks. Sacks run Tk 3,000-3,669, and both a Department of Livestock Services licence and a BSTI CM licence are compulsory.
Light manufacturing & workshopMaking clay pots, planters and terracotta showpieces. Bijoypur's work is exported, but with no gas the kilns run on firewood and part of the output is spoiled.
Home & local servicesHenna design and bridal styling for weddings, gaye holud and Eid. In Dhaka festival mehendi is Tk 1,225-1,625 and bridal Tk 3,900-5,525 per person.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing basok, kalomegh, tulsi and arjun. The buyers are medicine companies, so the price is set by contract or tender: a bigha of kalomegh costs Tk 15,000, yields 20-22 maunds and sells at Tk 2,400 a maund.
Retail & wholesaleRetailing clothes for children aged 0-12. Panjabi sets Tk 260-985, frocks Tk 150-650. Children outgrow clothes, so stock turns over far faster than in an adult boutique.
Home & local servicesCutting keys, mending locks and opening jammed doors. A key is Tk 25-200 and a house call Tk 250-500; a good day brings a thousand, a bad day nothing.
Home & local servicesA motor driving training institute. A BRTA licence is compulsory, registration costs Tk 15,000, and only 152 schools are registered in the whole country.
Light manufacturing & workshopA unit making corrugated cartons and boxes. Small parcel cartons retail at Tk 24-40 each, and the 350,000-400,000 parcels moving daily are the biggest market.
Food processingBaking cakes, pastries and cupcakes for the counter and to order. The display case carries the spoilage risk; the decorated order cakes carry the margin.
Retail & wholesaleSpare parts for power tillers, shallow engines and sprayers. Machine sales fell 80-90 per cent when the subsidy was suspended in June 2024, but the machines already in the fields still need parts.
Light manufacturing & workshopMelting old shoes and waste plastic into cheap sandals. Bangladesh has 300-400 such factories making over a crore pairs a year, and they retail at Tk 100-500 a pair.
Food processingTreating water and selling it in jars and bottles. BSTI certification is compulsory, and most of the margin sits with the retailer and distributor rather than the plant.
Light manufacturing & workshopCasting concrete posts and pillars in moulds. It shares a mixer with concrete block making, and the rising price of rod and cement is the main risk.
Retail & wholesaleSelling and fitting tyres and batteries for cars and motorcycles. Car tyres Tk 11,000-29,000, bike tyres Tk 1,750-15,650, bike batteries Tk 1,050-1,950.
Light manufacturing & workshopLaying tiles and marble on floors, walls and bathrooms. Tiles run Tk 55-170 a piece and the statutory minimum for a tile man is Tk 1,105 a day in town, the highest on any site.
Retail & wholesaleRetailing shoes, sandals, school bags and belts. School shoes Tk 559-1,999 and school bags Tk 279-996; unsold odd sizes are the biggest loss in this trade.
