In 2021 Arçelik A.Ş. has acquired majority share in Singer BD, an electronics manufacturering company.
Recently, with an $78 investment from Arçelik A.Ş. a manufacturing plant has been stablished in Bangladesh Special Economic Zone (BSEZ) at Araihazar in Narayanganj.
the new facility is aimed at reducing import dependence and locally manufacture over 90 percent of components.
"The company started to manufacture refrigerators at its plant at the BSEZ, which is popularly known as the Japanese special economic zone, last week," said Farhan Azhar, head of product at Singer Bangladesh.
Singer Bangladesh posted an announcement in this regard on the Dhaka Stock Exchange website yesterday.
"We will manufacture air conditioners, televisions, and other home appliances in phases by the third quarter of this year," said Azhar, adding that the new factory would directly employ around 5,000 people.
"The new plant can manufacture up to 10 lakh (10000k) refrigerators per year but we will manufacture four lakh units initially," he added.
It becomes the first plant in Araihazar economic zone
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The news is month old, came across it just now. Thought it was interesting. First of its kind invest from Türkiye. Let's see if Arçelik A.Ş. can turn Singer BD into a billion dollars company.