2. Bengal Hurricane Group – Brief History
Novel Hurricane Knit Garments was established in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1998 as a
Knit Jersey manufacturer and since then, we have grown to become one of the leading
manufacturers and exporters of fashion knitwear in Bangladesh. With its 6 sister
concerns, Bengal Hurricane Group is a now producing garments for some of the leading
fashion brands in the global market.
After the success of Novel Hurricane, we started Bengal Hurricane Dyeing & Printing
in 2003, followed by AST Knitwear in 2005 and Arabi Fashion in 2008.
Today, we are a vertical composite operation from knitted fabrics to the finished
garments.
3. Novel Hurricane Knit Garments Ltd : Production Unit
Bengal Hurricane Dyeing and Printing Pvt. Ltd : Dyeing & Printing Unit.
AST Knitwear Ltd : Production Unit
Arabi Fashion Limited : Production Unit
Appear Fashion : Production Unit
GS Embroidery : Embroidery Unit.
GS Accessories : Accessories Unit.
Binoda Enterprise : AOP Unit.
GS Enterprise Pte. Ltd : Chemical Unit.
The Group
4. Knitting Department
Type : Circular Knits
No of Machines : 71
Make : Fukuhara, Japan (56 Nos)
Paiking, Taiwan (15 Nos)
Flat knit Machines: 6
Make : Seima Seiki, Japan
Capacity : 28.5 Tons / Day
Fabric Type : All Circular knit Fabrics
5. Dyeing Department
In house Lab
Daily Dyeing Capacity of 22 tons.
All wet Processing In house.
Garment Dyeing Facility
Dip Dyeing Facility
Washing Facility
WTP and ETP
6. Printing Department
• Machine printing – 50000 / Day
• Table Printing – 30000 / Day
• Plastisol, Pigment, Discharge, Photo, Foil,
Flock, HD, Water base etc.
8. Sewing Department
Total Lines : 50
Machine per Line : 30
Capacity per Month : 2.2 Million
Units : Arabi, Novel, AST and Appear.
Products : All Knitted Products
9. At a Glance
Production Capacity of 4 units : 2.2 Million Pcs / Month.
Knitting Capacity of 2 units : 28.5 Tons Daily.
Dyeing Capacity : 22 Tons Daily.
Printing Capacity : 80,000 pc Daily (Machine and Table)
Embroidery Capacity : 40 million stitches per day
Employees : 4,300 plus
Products : All Knit Styles
Fabrics : All Cotton and Blended Fabrics
ETP : Chemical and Biological.
Markets : Europe, Asia, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand
13. Arabi Fashion with Uniqlo
• Started Business with Uniqlo in 2009
• We Produced Polo T-shirt, Maxi Dress, UT and Terry
Jacket.
• Total qty in the last 6 years has been 6.7 Million Pc
• Total Value in the last 6 years has been 21 Million USD.
• 2011, 2012 and 2013, we had one entire floor
producing Uniqlo
• 2014 the qty started to drop.
14. TIME LAPSE – INFRASTRUCTURE
2009 2015
170000 sq ft Space 325000 Sq ft Space
700 Sewing Machine 1500 Sewing Machine
Knitting Capacity 4.5 Tons/Day Knitting Capacity 28.5 Ton/Day
Dyeing Capacity 10 Tons/Day Dyeing Capacity 22 Tons/Day
No Garment Dyeing Garment Dyeing 5k Pc/Day
Printing 10k Pc/Day Printing 80k Pc/Day
No Embroidery 4 Embroidery Machines
BSCI Certificate BSCI, SEDEX, GOTS, OCS,
ACCORD
Novel, AST and Arabi Units Novel, AST, Arabi & Appear
Manpower – 1500 Plus Manpower – 4300 Plus
No Design Facility Design Facility available
No Global offices UK and Dubai
Export to Europe Only Europe, Australia, NZ, Gulf & Asia
15. TIME LAPSE – QUALITY THEN AND NOW
2009 2015
FABRIC Random Insp. 100% Insp.
TRIMS & ACCESSORY Random Insp. 100% Insp.
CUTTING Bundle Insp. Marker Checking
Cut part Checking &
Bundle Insp.
PRINT & EMBRO Random Insp. 100% Insp.
SEWING Inline Check
End of Line Checking
Inline check point
Random Checking
End of line Checking
Audit of Checked Pcs
FINISHING Finished goods Insp. Initial Finishing Insp.
Final Finishing Insp.
Internal Shipment Insp.
17. UNIQLO SHARE OF REVENUE WITH ARABI FASHION
YEAR FCTY REVENUE UNIQLO
REVENUE
UNIQLO %
2010 22 MILLION 1.7 MILLION 7.7 %
2011 36 MILLION 5.2 MILLION 14.4 %
2012 40 MILLION 3.7 MILLION 9.25 %
2013 44 MILLION 4.5 MILLION 10.2 %
2014 50 MILLION 2.9 MILLION 5.8 %
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36
40
44
50
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5.2 3.7 4.5 2.9
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20
30
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60
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
18. OUR VISION FOR UNIQLO
• Once again run the entire floor for UNIQLO
• We are expanding our capacity, would like to offer more capacity for
UNIQLO.
• We want to be the no 1 supplier of UNIQLO for Knits in Bangladesh.
• We would like to enter the printed T-shirt segment of Uniqlo.
• We would like to enter the Terry and Fleece Segment of Uniqlo.
• We are ready to learn and follow your guidelines to achieve the
above.
19. With the support and co-operation of our Valued
Clients today, Bengal Hurricane Group is one of
the leading and the most reliable apparel
manufacturer in our country providing high
quality garments to leading fashion houses and
brands.
