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shibli:
Ruby Rahman- A Successful Business Woman
Written by M.G. Rabbany
Pictures & Video by Taslima Akter

Ruby Rahman (36) runs a handicrafts business. After the death of her husband she is running her business seriously. Now she has rented two roomed float at Malibagh chowdhurypara for their accommodation and factory. She appointed four young girls as her factory workers. She collected them from their village. She gives them training on handicrafts. She also provides them food, clothes and accommodation facilities at her own house e factory. These girls also can earn some money and they can send to their village. Their income depends on their production. Ruby Rahman and one of her sister in low named Poly (who also a student of Nari Jibon) jointly runs their business. They make mainly bags and show pieces by the clothes/threads and skin. At the beginning time she and her sister in low used to make bags for their known persons and that was very little. But after the death of her husband she expanded her business. Now they are supplying their production to the famous shops and markets in Dhaka city. Their latest production is mobile phone bag which have very demand in the market. Recently they are supplying their production in the Baily Road’s shops which are luxurious shops in Dhaka city. Ruby Rahman informed that they can earn average Tk. 12000 every month excluding expenditures. Ruby Rahman and Poly don’t spend their profits as they are increasing their cash. They have planned that in future they will rent or buy a large showroom in the busy market area.

http://narijibon.blogspot.com/2007/09/ruby-rahman-successful-business-woman.html

shibli:
Very few parents talk about the passion their children have, about the natural talents they have, about the love

they keep in our soul for their every new idea or what they want to become in life. Most often they thrust their own ideas into the children's brain.

Our success depends on what how we define it, what we want out of life and the way we love to live our life.

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Anwar Hossain, 74, cannot think of retiring anytime soon as stopping working will mean the fall of the curtain on his long and distinguished career.

The chairman of Anwar Group of Industries, the country's one of the best-known conglomerates, said the goal of his early life of creating as many jobs for his countrymen as possible has not changed at all.

Today, the company has business interests in areas such as garments, textiles, crockery, spinning, tins, cement, jute and jute products, sweater, plastic, tea, automobiles, education, and real estate -- employing more than 14,000 people.

"I always wanted to create jobs for my countrymen. I am not happy with 14,000 workers. I want to make it 25,000," he said.

Although he now employs thousands of people, he learnt the basics of the business from a friend of his elder brother, working for him for around six months.

Anwar used to divide his time between Islamia High School and the family businesses. He attended school up to 1pm. From midday he concentrated on the business at Chawkbazar, where he also used to have his lunch and take private tuition in the evening.

It took only five years for Anwar to understand the nitty-gritty of the business. "I always thought how I can better the business. I was a child but I worked better than an adult."

In 1953, he started garments business -- Anwar Cloth Store -- in Chawkbazar.

In 1956, he set up Sunshine Cable and Rubber Industry, the first Bengali-controlled industry in Pakistan.

Later he quit the business leaving it in the hands of his uncle and brothers.

He did a good business and earned a lot of money until 1958, when General Ayub Khan declared martial law. Anwar made a declaration of his wealth and opened an income tax file. He was only about 20 years old at that time, which raised eyebrows from many.

He also took help from a visually challenged person, Mohammad Hafiz, one of the top businessmen at that time. Hafiz had jute and textile mills in both West and East Pakistan.

Anwar used to buy yarn from his factory and sell those in Narayanganj and other places.

By the time he met Hafiz, Anwar had nine shops. Hafiz asked him to set up a factory instead of relying on shops.

Anwar bought a power loom and many other associated machinery from the East Pakistan Small Industries Corporation, which is now Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation. In 1966, he set up a factory, Anwar Silk Mills, in Tongi to make banarasi saris.

He produced "Mala Sari" which was an instant hit. Since then, he never looked back. A number of other companies added to his name.

Later he bought machines to manufacture cutlery spoon and crockery from enamel at Monowar Industries Private Ltd in Tejgaon, his first venture in the independent Bangladesh.

"I worked day and night since 1962," he said.

Anwar initiated the process to set up the country's first private bank. He along with a group of businesspeople from Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry was able to convince the then government in 1978 that the country needs private banks.

A former director of the DCCI, Anwar later set up The City Bank Ltd and City Insurance Ltd.

Anwar, who won a parliamentary seat in the 1988 polls as an independent candidate, said he is happy as he has been able to prepare his three sons to run the Group. Responsibilities have been equally distributed among them.

He still attends office at Baitul Hossain in Motijheel, the headquarters of the Group, until 5pm and visits factories later. He regularly talks with workers to know how they are doing.

The Group spends generously as part of its corporate social responsibility. It has set up eye hospital, maternity centre, daycare centre for 250 children, orphanage, madrasas, primary schools and high schools.

The Group finances about 95 charities. Anwar now plans to set up a diabetes hospital in his locality, as there is no such facility in Old Dhaka.

Anwar thanked his mother and his wife for standing beside him all the time. Written by Md Fazlur Rahman

Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2012/thedailystar_dhl_business_awards/02/DHL%20Business%20Award.htm

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With a life in business spanning five decades, Mahbubur Rahman is a byname for boundless experience and insights.

During the early sixties, when the Dhaka city was a hotbed of political activity, Rahman stepped into the world of business. As a young university graduate in political science, Rahman joined the National Bank of Pakistan in 1962 only to leave it quickly. It was a blessing in disguise, and he followed his own destiny -- entrepreneurship.

Rahman insists that nobody inspired him to be a businessman. “Probably I was destined to be one,” Rahman says.

In 1962, Rahman set up Eastern Trading Company, an importer of consumer goods. After independence, the company was changed into Eastern Trading Bangladesh Ltd. It was later shortened to ETBL Holdings.

Now, the 50-year-old company, ETBL Holdings, has nine associated units operating in banking, insurance, housing, international trade and cold storage.

But Rahman is widely recognised for being more than just another highly successful businessman. He is regarded as a voice of reason and moral conscience among his friends. He spent most of his life making trade bodies effective, professional and ethical. He has also striven to make businesses run in line with international best practices.

Rahman was the president of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry for 1992-94. Before that, he led the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry as its president for two terms.

As the president of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Bangladesh, Rahman, now 70, is still active in promoting good business practices rooted in fair entrepreneurship, dedication and commitment to quality. His latest project is Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre that helps settle commercial disputes in a quick, transparent and cost-effective manner.

These efforts define him as a man with a vision of building a business community around a strict code of conduct.

http://www.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2012/thedailystar_dhl_business_awards/02/DHL%20Business%20Award.htm

shibli:

Private sector insurance, as we enjoy in our lives, would not have been possible without the inspired leadership of the late MA Samad, founder of the first private sector insurance company, Bangladesh General Insurance Company Ltd.

It was in 1984 when the visionary Samad retired from the post of managing director of state-owned Jibon Bima Corporation to start a private insurance company. Before long, a number of entrepreneurs bought into his idea and on July 29, 1985, he along with his partners started the company that paved the way for many in the years to come.

The company now boasts 27 branches with more than 500 employees and a 20 percent year-on-year growth. A remarkable feat -- and Samad was in the driver's seat all the while, in his capacity as the managing director and then as the chairman, until his death in October 2005.

Born in 1923 to a respected family from Sylhet, Samad went on to receive BA Honours in history from the Presidency College of Calcutta in 1945, scoring highest marks in the history of the university along the way.

His extraordinary academic career gave way to an equally brilliant insurance career that spanned six decades. Starting off at the British-owned Prudential Insurance Company, he offered his services and ideas to five other insurance giants, all the while climbing the stairs of success.

His ultimate goal was customer satisfaction, which, coupled with his unfaltering self-belief, led him to constantly seek out innovative products and schemes -- and eventually made him the pioneer of the country's insurance sector.

His relentless quest for knowledge and the immense desire to pass it on provide further proof of his dedication to Bangladesh's insurance sector. He attended Chartered Insurance Institute training courses in London and many annual conferences of the Federation of Insurance Institutes of India. He visited many important insurance training institutions and departments of universities in the UK and US under UNDP Fellowship Programme.

The upshot of all this experience is four highly-regarded books on insurance in the most lucid and simple language -- two in Bangla and two in English.

Not only that, Samad was the founder director of Bangladesh Insurance Academy, the state-owned institution for insurance education and training in the country, and established the Bangladesh Insurance Association, the apex body of insurance in the country.

He has been enlisted as an international expert in the technical assistance programme on trade and development of the United Nations.

In acknowledgement of his unparalleled professional achievements, The Daily Star and DHL Express have honoured the insurance icon posthumously with Lifetime Contribution award. Written by Refayet Ullah Mirdha

Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2012/thedailystar_dhl_business_awards/02/DHL%20Business%20Award.htm

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