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Sweet-makers in a confectionery village in Bogura, in a Prothom Alo report
Food processingBogura
Wholesale rates run at 140 taka a kg for kadma, sugar figurines and batasa, 160 for nimki, 120 for jilapi and 90 for khoi. What began in the early 1980s with one man selling sweets at local fairs has turned a Bogura village into a confectionery quarter.
Small bakery factory owners in Shariatpur, in a Prothom Alo report
Food processingShariatpur
Sugar at 110 taka a kg, flour at 62, palm oil at 135 a litre and ghee at 154 — inputs rose at least 30 percent in six months while the price of bread and biscuits could not move. All 95 of the district's bakery factories were running at a loss, one owner putting his own at 30 lakh taka over two years.
A sugarcane-juice seller in Rangpur, in a Prothom Alo report
Food processingRangpur
A glass of sugarcane juice has gone from 2 taka to 10 over ten years, but the cane has risen with it. The stall turns over 3,000-4,000 taka a day and keeps 600-700 of it.
A sugarcane-juice seller in Rangamati, in a Prothom Alo report
Food processingRangamati
The same 2.5 acres returned about 30,000 taka a year under paddy against 18,000 taka of production cost. Crushed and sold as juice at the roadside, the cane from that land now takes about 2,000 taka a day and leaves about 400,000 taka of profit over a nine-month season.
The president of the tour operators' owners association in Cox's Bazar and small traders on the beach, in a Protidiner Kagoj report
Digital & B2B servicesCox's Bazar
Cox's Bazar emptied of tourists in February 2026 around the national election: most hotels fell below 10 per cent occupancy and the 15-day loss was put at a hundred crore taka.
A CCTV trader in the Baitul Mukarram market, Dhaka, in a Swadesh Pratidin report
Digital & B2B servicesDhaka
A four-camera setup with a DVR costs the buyer 20,000-22,000 taka and installation near Dhaka 300-500; some 6-7 lakh cameras sell a year, almost all imported.
The owner of seven trucks in Meherpur, in a Business Standard report
Digital & B2B servicesMeherpur
Seven trucks that used to run 18-22 trips a month for more than a lakh of profit were down to 7-8 trips leaving 20,000-25,000 taka - not even enough to cover the instalments.
Depositors and officers of a cooperative society in Bagerhat, in a Prothom Alo report
Digital & B2B servicesBagerhat
A cooperative society formed in Bagerhat in 2015 took in about 2.5 crore taka on a promise of 1,400 taka a month per lakh; its secretary vanished in April 2022, with roughly 70 lakh still out on loan.
A deed writer in Tarash, Sirajganj, in a Dainik Ittefaq report
Digital & B2B servicesSirajganj
A deed writer in Tarash, Sirajganj, registered a 1.5-bigha plot bought for 726,000 taka in his own name instead of the buyer's; his licence was cancelled once the complaint was substantiated.
Two young founders of an online coconut delivery business in Dhaka, in a Prothom Alo report
Digital & B2B servicesDhaka
It began with 100 coconuts bought for 8,000 taka at Karwan Bazar; total investment is now about 10 lakh taka, with 12 staff and average sales of 25 lakh taka a month.
The chief executive of a small travel agency in Dhaka, in a BBC Bangla report
Digital & B2B servicesDhaka
When an online travel agency shut down in August 2025, one small agency was left with 22 lakh taka of tickets bought in advance; a Motijheel police case alleges 4 crore and 79 thousand taka taken from 17 agents.
Customers of an agent banking outlet in Raipura, Narsingdi, in a Dhaka Post report
Digital & B2B servicesNarsingdi
The operator of an agent banking outlet in Raipura, Narsingdi, never passed customers' deposits to the main branch and disappeared on 21 January 2024 with at least 10 crore taka.
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