GROWING BANGLADESH MIDDLE-CLASS BOOSTS DEMAND FOR QUALITY WESTERN CONFECTIONERY
February 1st, 2017
EVERY time apparel industry executive Israfil Alam and his wife buy groceries, one item doesn’t elude them: chocolate for their 13-year-old son Isman Sayer.
“Isman’s favourite is Kit Kat Chunky,” Alam, a Dhaka-based general manager at knitwear maker Magpie Group, told Confectionery Production. He was enjoying International Mother Language Day – a public holiday in Bangladesh - as he shopped at a Meena Bazar supermarket, before heading for dinner at a branch of South African restaurant Nando’s, just opposite the store, in Dhaka’s upscale Dhanmondi ...
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