Thursday, February 14, 2019

Samsung Refrigerator Mobile Phone | Made in Bangladesh


Fair Electronics factory which is located in Shibpur upazila under Narsingdi district of Bangladesh is now manufacturing Samsung's refrigerator and Samsung Mobile Phones in the country. “Made in Bangladesh” is now appearing in some models of the world famous Samsung's refrigerators and Cell phones. Some versions of Samsung refrigerator will be low price. Lots of Bangladeshi workers are working in this factory and low and medium range Samsung mobile phones are manufacturing in this factory.

The name ‘Samsung’ is not only well known in Bangladesh but across the whole world. Cell phones, refrigerators or fridges, Air-conditioner (AC) and other electronic products made by Samsung are very popular in the country. Samsung brand mobile handsets are available in the hands of people of Bangladesh. Now, the new NEWS is that Samsung's refrigerator / fridge wrap is now written in Bangladesh or made in Bangladesh.

Samsung Electronics’ refrigerator is now being manufactured at Fair Electronics Factory in Shibpur Upazila, near Narsingdi. Some versions of Samsung refrigerators manufactured in the factory, are selling at low and medium prices in various stores across the country.


Around 600 peoples have been employed in this factory. A part of the staffs has been trained in Korea and Samsung's staff from Korea even trained Bangladeshi workers here. A young woman named Irene Akhter was working in the cell phone manufacturing unit. She said that this is her first job and she learned the work through training in the factory. Fair Group Chairman said, "Bangladeshi peoples are very good at work. They can learn quickly but we need more educated people with technical background.”

Fair Electronics is one of the Samsung's distributors in Bangladesh. Their factory has been built with the technical support of Samsung Electronics. The group has invested around 600 crore taka to build this manufacturing unit in 16 acres of land. Recently, the price of Samsung products has decreased due to the production in Bangladesh. But the quality of products is equivalent to any other manufacturing countries such as Korea, Vietnam or Thailand. There is no difference. Fridges and Mobile phones manufactured in Bangladesh have fault less than others.




South Korea's electronics giant Samsung has 39 factories around the world. They have established research and product development centers at 35 places. Their products are designed in 7 centers. Transcom Electronics produces Samsung's Television in Bangladesh. Fair Electronics factory was launched in July 2019. At present huge numbers of Samsung Refrigerators and mobile phones that are selling in the countries market made of the factory. Some high quality refrigerators and mobile phones are still importing.

The fair group said that they have reduced the prices of the Samsung refrigerator by a little bit in the country. As a result, Samsung's share has increased in the 20 million refrigerator sales in the country every year. Samsung's refrigerator VAT in the country is now 35 percent, which will increase 40 percent soon. The value addition of mobile phone is 10 percent. The factory took initiative to create the motherboard of mobile phones and value added tax will increase when it starts.


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