Prokritee is a manufacturer and exporter of handmade home decoration and fashion accessories, while focusing on creating employment for rural women and developing products that extend the cultural heritage of Bangladesh. The skilled artisans of Prokritee offer a broad variety of products, ranging from fashion (textile, bags, and jewelry) to household items (baskets, tablemats, lampshades, cushion covers). For our products, we use renewable sources of materials, such as recycled sari, waste jute, silk, handmade paper, natural fibers and leaves.

Peerless Enterprise is a manufacturer and exporter of handmade stylish bags and leather products. The company started its journey in 2006 aiming for Poverty Reduction (creating more employment) and Gender Equality (engaging more female workers in this industry).

Peerless has created its own niche in designing and producing bags that unite utility and style. The company has its own well-equipped setup for production and quality control where it is also possible to manufacture according to customers’ designs and specifications.

Tarango designs, produces and exports a variety of handmade products such as baskets, bags, rugs and seasonal decorations. All raw materials come from renewable sources: Seagrass, mela, jute, water hyacinth and recycled materials like cement- and ricebags and waste fabrics.

The company has been fair trade certified by WFTO and aims to improve the socio economic condition of the rural women it works with. Tarango works with more than 12.000 women all over Bangladesh. These skilled producers are trained by Tarango to make products with consistent quality and in line with international standards. Tarango is in the process of becoming a WFTO Guaranteed fair trade company.

Intend BD Crafts uses a variety of natural fibers to craft its beautiful range of baskets. Jute and Seagrass are the main raw materials, which can be combined with recycled plastic and accents in leather. The collection ranges from baskets in the natural colors of the fibers to very colorful combinations with painted motifs.

The company adheres to fair trade principles and keeps investing in the training and knowledge of its producers.

Since 2008 Golden Jute excels in the development and production of innovatively designed and unique products. With its wide range of baskets the company fulfills the need for practical and ecofriendly storage solutions. Dedicated to the use of ecofriendly materials the company has developed a production method that uses jute and seagrass, but in a much more contemporary manner than traditional basketry. Golden Jute has a capacity of 20,000 sets of baskets per month and can double this volume if required.

CORR The Juteworks has been manufacturing and exporting handmade products for the last 40 years. The company aims to ensure ‘Trade – not aid’ through its work. In this way CORR works with more than 4000 artisans through 162 producer groups.

With its in-house design department CJW develops its own products on a seasonal basis and is also experienced in the development and execution of custom-made designs. Though traditionally there has been a strong emphasis on the use of jute, CJW also uses other materials such as silk, sea grass, bamboo, cane and recycled materials.