300 women SME entrepreneurs join Okbazaar platform
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Small e-commerce entrepreneurs are facing tremendous constraint of capital, which pose a big challenge for flourishing their ventures
Nearly 300 emerging women entrepreneurs from the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector have joined with Okbazaar, an online marketing platform of the OK Group.
Under the banner of “Team Inspiration & E-Commerce,” the emerging entrepreneurs joined hands with Okbazzar Limited with an aim to strengthen their move for market intervention and further expansion of their network throughout the country, said a press release issued on Wednesday.
Team Inspiration & E-Commerce organized a daylong get-together for all of its members and exhibited their products at a hotel in Dhanmondi in the capital.
Speaking at the event, Ibrar Tipu, managing director and CEO of OK Group, said, “The engagement with 300 women entrepreneurs will create a new opportunity for the entrepreneurs in market intervention contribute to boosting e-commerce, further developing women entrepreneurship and of course contribute to the national economic growth.”
“The demand and acceptability of e-commerce has been increasing faster across the globe, while in Bangladesh the growth of e-commerce has been increasing very rapidly amid the pandemic of Covid-19 in the last two years,” added Tipu, also a well-known singer and music director in the country.
“The prompt rise of e-commerce activities has created a need to framing appropriate policy, strict monitoring and supervisory measures so that the rights of customers can be maintained through supplying quality products, fair prices and ensuring delivery of products within the time frame,” he noted.
Meanwhile, Fouzia Khanum, head of Team Inspiration & E-Commerce, opined that small level e-commerce entrepreneurs are facing tremendous constraint of capital, which pose a big challenge for flourishing their ventures.
She urged financial institutions to come forward to stand by emerging entrepreneurs with sustainable financial support and the government agencies concerned to frame time befitting e-commerce policy so that small scale ventures can survive as well as the customers’ rights be preserved, the statement added.
Nearly 300 emerging women entrepreneurs from the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector have joined with Okbazaar, an online marketing platform of the OK Group.
Under the banner of “Team Inspiration & E-Commerce,” the emerging entrepreneurs joined hands with Okbazzar Limited with an aim to strengthen their move for market intervention and further expansion of their network throughout the country, said a press release issued on Wednesday.
Team Inspiration & E-Commerce organized a daylong get-together for all of its members and exhibited their products at a hotel in Dhanmondi in the capital.
Speaking at the event, Ibrar Tipu, managing director and CEO of OK Group, said, “The engagement with 300 women entrepreneurs will create a new opportunity for the entrepreneurs in market intervention contribute to boosting e-commerce, further developing women entrepreneurship and of course contribute to the national economic growth.”
“The demand and acceptability of e-commerce has been increasing faster across the globe, while in Bangladesh the growth of e-commerce has been increasing very rapidly amid the pandemic of Covid-19 in the last two years,” added Tipu, also a well-known singer and music director in the country.
“The prompt rise of e-commerce activities has created a need to framing appropriate policy, strict monitoring and supervisory measures so that the rights of customers can be maintained through supplying quality products, fair prices and ensuring delivery of products within the time frame,” he noted.
Meanwhile, Fouzia Khanum, head of Team Inspiration & E-Commerce, opined that small level e-commerce entrepreneurs are facing tremendous constraint of capital, which pose a big challenge for flourishing their ventures.
She urged financial institutions to come forward to stand by emerging entrepreneurs with sustainable financial support and the government agencies concerned to frame time befitting e-commerce policy so that small scale ventures can survive as well as the customers’ rights be preserved, the statement added.
Source: https://www.dhakatribune.com