The necessity of innovation in Bangladesh's textile and apparel industry is felt even more badly amid the current phase of difficult time while the industry is observing acute energy and gas price hikes, the Russia-Ukraine war, global inflation, order shortage and other hurdles and this dire situation, innovation can be the way to ensure survival and sustainability.
Considering the affairs, Textile Today is heading towards the eighth season of Textile Talent Hunt 2023-24 to uplift innovativeness all over the industry, reads a press release.
In this countrywide competition at least 100 selected Transformation Leaders (TLs) will prepare their innovation projects through the ‘Practically Tested Transformation Model' (PTTM), which will surely boost innovation scopes in the industry.
On March 13 an MoU has been signed between Bangladesh Textile Today and Centro Tex Ltd for collaboration and joint activities for the eighth Season of Textile Talent Hunt (TTH) 2023-24.
They will work together to make the event successful for the upcoming transformation of the industry by discovering the future transformation leaders.
Tareq Amin, CEO of Bangladesh Textile Today and Nicolas Anton, COO of Centro Tex Ltd signed the MoU respectively on behalf of the two organizations.
Sayedul Hassan, AGM, HR and AyshaFarjana, senior executive, HR from Centro Tex Ltd were present at the MoU signing ceremony where Amzad Hossain Monir, head of Business Development; Md Eousup Novee, GM, HR and Strategy; Akhi Akter, managing editor fromTextile Today also attended.
Tareq Amin said that Bangladesh Textile Today has taken preparation to organize Textile Talent Hunt (TTH) 2023-24 to find out the Transformation Leaders (TLs) for the textile and apparel industry.
“It is a great occasion because we are signing with Centro Tex Ltd for organizing the 8th season of Textile Talent Hunt 2023-24. The TTH event has been a phenomenal success in terms of increasing innovativeness in the Bangladesh textile and apparel industry. I believe the participation of Centro Tex in the TTH will widen its scope of it,” said Tareq Amin.
“In the seventh TTH season, we did 100 innovation projects – engaging 300 professionals and experts implementing innovations in the industry. The outcome is overwhelming and many of the innovation leaders are still successfully working in many companies and setting an example for others through their outstanding leadership.”
“In the eighth season, by taking the support of our partners like Centro Tex – we look forward to penetrating more into the textile and apparel industry and engaging more factories to solve more practical problems. We really want to drive this innovation journey deeper creating more impact,” Tareq Amin concluded.
Nicolas Antonsaidin the MoU signing ceremony, “Centro Tex Ltd is fully committed to developing the future textile engineers of this country. We do believe that everybody should have a chance to get sponsorship from us. It is our duty to help the talents in becoming future innovation leaders by enhancing their skills and knowledge through TTH. It is a win-win for all the parties involved. Because manpower in the industry is really crucial. Thus by participating in the TTH – we are enabling our upcoming leadership. Finally, we are glad to participate with Textile Today to organize the TTH competition.”
This MoU has its objective of collaboration and cooperation for TTH 2023-24 between both organizations to share and exchange knowledge and information, to jointly organize the various events in the competition i.e. Campus Drive, Campus Day Competition, Audition, National Conference and Factory Engagement of the participants etc. along with different pieces of training, workshops and conferences aligned with the competition flow.
TTH is an initiative of Bangladesh Textile Today has changed the thinking, targets and learning process is a concern of transforming human capital.
On the other hand, Centro Tex Ltd is a leading manufacturer and supplier of apparel products in Bangladesh.
The vision of Centro is to inspire people through creativity and joy, by delivering compelling and memorable designs with sustainability.
