Deputy Managing Director of pran Foods Ltd., Mr. Ahsan Khan Chowdhury is collecting ‘Best Exporter of the year-2009/10’ trophy from Honorable Prime Minister, People’s Republic of Bangladesh

The awards are welcome but if there is one thing that truly inspires every member of PRAN … it’s a vision to become the leading globally integrated agro based Food Company by improving livelihood.

Managing Inflation/Unemployment/Growth rate

The idea of corporate social responsibility is being widely promoted all over and rightly so. Here is a corporate whose corporate mission embodies in itself corporate social responsibilities with the additional compulsion to make profits in order to thrive and grow which it must to fulfill its corporate social responsibilities in greater measure as time passes. PRAN has a bifocal objective of making profits through the fulfillment of corporate social responsibilities.

PRAN-RFL is a concept: away to fight poverty & hunger in Bangladesh in the shortest possible time through employment generation.

PRAN Signifies investment in agro processing: creating demands for farm produce which create jobs in rural areas also preventing urban migration. PRAN’s aim to add value to agricultural harvest.

Bangladesh’s comparative advantage lies in creating a competitive edge in value added agricultural products. This is what PRAN Stands for.

The Group’s major achievement has been to try to consolidate fragmented land holdings and to organize farmers into ‘contract growers’ of specific crops for consumption in PRAN’s major processed products. With the elimination of the middlemen, farmers receive fair prices for their produce & due to technical assistance from the agro-processing industry; yields, quality and income have risen considerably. Poverty alleviation through profitable enterprises is now a reachable goal for many farmers. This resolution is perhaps PRAN’s greatest achievement.

Equal opportunity are given to both male, female candidates irrespective of race, religions, culture etc. Selection is done based on merits and qualifications. Everyone has got clear-cut job descriptions and got equal opportunity to contribute and share their ideas and thoughts to grow in the company.

Employees are rewarded with salary, commission and incentives as per standards. Workers and staffs are provided with free & subsidized food from the factory and office cafeterias. Employees’ health and hygiene are taken out most care with full time adequate numbers of Doctors, nurses and other medical supports.

To develop the human skills, both on the and off the jobs trainings are constantly being provided to all the workers and staffs.

Over these years PRAN had recruited thousands of employees. As of 2014, PRAN-RFL Group has 58,000 employees currently, which is a great accomplishment for a country like Bangladesh, whose unemployment rate is high.

Present Status: Facts and Figures

The following tables capture the trade figures between Bangladesh and India. While the first table shows the huge trade gap between the two countries, the second table manifests meager amount of trade India is conducting with Bangladesh in terms of its total global share.

 

                             Table 1: Total Trade and Balance

                                                                                    (Value in million USD)

Head                                           2006-2007           2007-2008           2008-2009

India’s export to                           1,629.57              2,923.72              2,497.87

Bangladesh

India’s Import from                     228.00                 257.02                 313.11

Bangladesh

Total Trade                                  1,857.57              3,180.74              2,810.98

Trade Balance                              1,401.57              2,666.70              2,184.76

(towards Indian side)