Safe Trading Corporation (Satej)

About

Safe Trading Corporation is a food factory in Uttara, Dhaka that makes traditional Bengali snacks by machine and sells them under the 'Satej' brand. Md. Mostafa Kamal and his wife Shayla Akhand started in early 2010 with Tk 92,000 of savings and three workers, at first buying naru from Pabna, phul pitha from Narsingdi, muri and chira moa from Tongi, and nimki, murali, monakka, chira, fried lentils and nuts from Badda, then packing them hygienically for sale. After two months the supermarket Meena Bazar became the first to stock them; Tk 76,000 worth sold in the first month and twice that the next. They then rented a bakery in Tongi in partnership to make the food themselves, set up a factory at Pakuria, Sector 14, Uttara in 2015, and moved to a new factory in the same area in 2018. In 2019 Mostafa had five machines built to his specifications in China, and by 2022 the company held HACCP and ISO 22000:2018 certificates. It now makes about 30 food products and also packs spices such as cardamom and cinnamon; it has 35 staff, more than 40 distributors around the country and a good share of online sales. The couple received the National SME Award in the micro entrepreneur of the year category.

Products and services

• Naru

  Several kinds

• Nimki

• Murali

• Monakka

• Moa bars

• Fried chira (flattened rice)

• Fried lentils

• Fried nuts

• Packed spices (cardamom, cinnamon)

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