There
was a buzz about the launch of the world famous US e-commerce giant Amazon in
Bangladesh. But this time the progress of the issue has been known much. Based
on the information of the Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), recently Amazon officials are doing meeting with the department
to start their operations in Bangladesh.
On
Wednesday 17th July 2019, the e-commerce company ‘Amazon’ attended a
meeting with the Information and Communication Technology Minister Junaid Ahmed
Palak about their activities. Then Amazon can report on their start up
activities. Later it was known that the Amazon wants to collect Bangladeshi
products in their own warehouses and give opportunity to entrepreneurs instead
of starting activities in Bangladesh. State Minister for Information and Communication Technology
Junaid Ahmed Palak told the media after the discussion.
At
the beginning of the year 2018, Amazon officials evaluated the possibility of
starting their activities in Bangladesh. Initially it was known that Amazaon
will start their program by acquisition any company of Bangladesh. Later no
information was given by Amazon on this issue. They did not officially
commented on investment activities in Bangladesh.
From
the last year, the famous and popular Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba was
working in Bangladesh by buying South Asian e-commerce company Daraj Group.
The
US Company Amazon is one of the biggest online platform works on e-Commerce,
Cloud Computing, Digital Streaming and Artificial Intelligence etc. At present
world's four largest companies are Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. Jeff
Bejos started its journey on 5 July 1994.
Now
Amazon wants to sell Bangladeshi products abroad. Their aim is to sell
Bangladeshi products from their own warehouse to the global platform. Apart
from this, they discussed the principles of financial support needed to sell
merchandise goods to the Amazon platform.
A
delegation of the Amazon participated in a meeting with the state minister and
officials of the ICT Tower at Agargaon. As an Amazon's representative the
category manager of International Expansion Division Mr. Gagan Dip Sagor
attended the meeting.
After
the meeting, the State Minister said, "Amazon wants to sell Bangladeshi
entrepreneurs in their own warehouses to their global platforms. We will see
how our policies and strategies will be in this regard.”
There
was no official announcement by Amazon regarding the meeting. There was no
announcement about whether Amazon will launch their activities in Bangladesh. The
Minister said, 'whether they will come to Bangladesh or not, it depends on
their wishes and our policies.'
According
to the Department of ICT, the meeting was held but no one wants to make any
comment regarding this issue.
So,
the buzz still remains buzz. Let us wait and see whether Amazon is coming to Bangladesh
or not! If they really come then when!
And we think once Amazon
will start their business in Bangladesh.
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