The big whole sale market in chattogram.
How to come.
From New market chitagong.....Hire a CNG autorikshaw. Approximately 5 minute need to come from New market to Teribazar.
Chattogram's Teribazar is the most sought after destination for people from all walks of life for reasonably priced full-sized cloth.
Located at the heart of the port city just around a hundred yards off Anderkilla, the business hub stands with around 2,500 shops and 82 shopping malls. Not only retail customers but also the traders from different upazilas in the district come here to shop wholesale cloths.
According to traders and businesspersons, its the second largest hub for wholesale full-sized cloths in the country after Islampur in Dhaka.
Although Teribazar was once famous for selling whole cloths at a reasonable price, in the transition of the last few years a number of shopping malls that offered ready-made attires mushroomed, said traders and locals.
The business hub has a tradition of selling whole cloths for around 80 years, said Abdul Mannan, former general secretary of Teribazar Merchants Association. "I've grown up in Ghat Forhadbegh area adjacent to Teribazar and since my childhood, I saw people from remote areas coming here to shop."
"The traders from different upazilas also used to come here to purchase cloths at a wholesale price and this trend have still been continuing," said Mannan.
According to sources, some one-stop malls, where clothes for all ages and genders are found under the same roof, have been appearing one after another in this hub since 2000.Megamart is one of those malls. It is located on the second, third and fourth floors of Ibrahim Mansion at Teribazar. During a visit in last week, it was seen that the mall was abuzz with customers.
Tamanna Binte Rashed came to the mall with her son and daughter for shopping."The advantage of shopping at a one-stop mall is that there are attires for all ages and genders here," she said. "I don't have to go from one shop to the other for buying attires and the price here is also reasonable."Apart from one-stop shopping malls, around 2,000 shops are selling cloths here.
Traders said keeping buyers' demands in mind on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, all kinds of cloths including katan, linen, jamdani, cotton, net, georgette, chiffon and digital print fabrics have been imported.
Besides, the demand for local cloth has also increased by leaps and bounds.
Gautam Chowdhury, proprietor of Adrika Fashion, said the demand for imported cloths overwhelms that of local cloths. "Indian and Chinese fabrics are on top of the demand of customers at my shop."
Aminul Haque, president of Teribazar Merchants Association, said they are taking steps to enhance the modern facilities so that the hub can attract more customers.
2 апр 2024
