序 An Industrial, Investment & Sustainability Platform — Bangladesh × Japan

Restoring Industry.
Restoring Livelihoods.
Restoring the Planet.

REVIVAL is not waiting for an industry to recover — REVIVAL is building the mechanism through which industries recover. We connect capital, operators, buyers and government around distressed industrial assets, starting with the reopening of one of Bangladesh's largest vertically integrated garment complexes.

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壱 Who We Are

A marketplace and execution platform for industrial revival — not a single factory, and not a single deal.

Where a distressed but fundamentally valuable industrial asset exists, REVIVAL brings together the capital, operator, buyer and strategic partners required to return it to productive use. Our first initiative is the large-scale demonstration of that model — the proof of concept, not the definition of what REVIVAL is.

Revival: Rebuilding Bangladesh’s Industry for the Global Market

REVIVAL is an independent platform and fashion brand bringing together international/NRB capital, government facilitation, financial institutions, international operators, Japanese partners, global buyers and local industrial assets — with REVIVAL's own management and commercial platform coordinating all of it. If this first initiative succeeds, the same model is designed to be repeated across other distressed industrial assets in Bangladesh.

REVIVAL PLATFORM Capital Government Banks Operators Buyers Japanese Partners Local Assets
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International / NRB capital

Financing structured to fund reactivation without waiting on public bailout.

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Government facilitation

Policy support and investment-authority approval treating reactivation as a national priority.

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Financial institutions

A nominated bank manages disbursement, debt service and foreign-currency flow.

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International operators & Japanese partners

Production oversight and quality standards buyers already recognise.

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Global buyers

Orders that fill production lines — the actual mechanism by which jobs return.

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Local industrial assets

Existing factories, workforce and machinery — leased and operated, not rebuilt from zero.

Three countries, one operating platform.

REVIVAL is not a single-country operation. The platform is built on three capabilities that rarely sit together in one company — and the combination is what makes the model work.

Japan

Design and quality philosophy

The discipline, the standards and the long-term thinking Japanese buyers require. REVIVAL was founded here, out of research at Kyushu University, and is registered in Fukuoka.

Bangladesh

Manufacturing and craftsmanship

Industrial-scale garment production alongside living craft traditions — Nakshi Kantha, Jamdani, Khadi — that no other production country can offer at the same time.

China

Manufacturing and operational expertise

Production engineering and operational discipline, brought into the platform through REVIVAL's joint venture with Besting.

REVIVAL is also a buyer, not only a platform

Where commercially appropriate, REVIVAL acts as a brand and buyer in its own right — placing orders into revived facilities and creating the demand that makes a reopening sustainable, rather than waiting for third-party orders to appear.

Aerial view of the Bengal delta
The industrial base REVIVAL is built to return to work sits across this delta — the country that makes a large share of the world's clothing.
弐 The Industrial Revival Initiative

320 acres, twelve garment units, and the first proof that this model works.

One of Bangladesh's largest vertically integrated garment complexes — built to supply the world's best-known apparel brands — stalled in the early 2020s under pandemic demand shocks and frozen trade finance. REVIVAL's reopening plan is the first large-scale demonstration of the platform model described above.

Capital+Management+Manufacturing+Buyers+Technology+Sustainability→Revived Industry

45,000+ livelihoods targeted for restoration

Large-scale export capacity reactivated

International capital & expertise mobilised

Major productive assets returned to operation

A model designed to expand beyond one industrial group

~2-year horizon to rebuild toward historical peak capacity

320 acTotal facility footprint
288High-speed air-jet looms
500,000Garments producible per day at scale
ISO / OEKO-TEXCertifications in place

Track record — what this platform already brings to the table:

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Besting's established manufacturing capability in Bangladesh

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International buyer experience across major global apparel brands

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Existing products and completed production runs

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In-house design and product development capability

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Reference rights within an established Bangladeshi industrial ecosystem

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International market relationships built over years of sourcing work

Own production capacity in development

REVIVAL and Besting have secured land at the Chinese EPZ in Anwara, Chittagong, with a further site planned at the Japanese EPZ. REVIVAL is not only reactivating assets it leases — it is building capacity it will own and operate in its own right.

Production floor at a partner facility in Bangladesh
Production floor — partner facility, Bangladesh. The facility specifications above describe the industrial complex under reactivation; REVIVAL's role is to lease it, operate it and fill it with orders.
Pattern and cutting work on the floor
Component cutting — leather and textile
Assembly line, partner facility
参 Leadership & Execution Capability

People invest in people before they invest in a concept.

Execution risk is usually the hardest thing to underwrite — production plans are easy to write and harder to deliver. REVIVAL is backed by a bench that spans four countries and combines government relations, blue-chip retail, industrial operations, trade finance and legal structuring. The people executing this plan have already run comparable mandates at Walmart, Disney, British American Tobacco, USAID and NTT.

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Founder & CEO, REVIVAL Global Ltd
Huda Mohammed Faisal

Chief Architect — commercial strategy, government engagement and global buyer relationships. B.Arch, BUET · Master's in Heritage & Environmental Design, Kyushu University. Founded REVIVAL from research at Kyushu University in 2018, inspired by Professor Muhammad Yunus's Three Zeros framework.

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Chairman, Besting Ltd
Yahua Qi

Chief Operating Partner — manufacturing scale, production execution and factory commissioning.

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President, REVIVAL Group Japan
Zulfiquar Ali Chowdhury

Institutional Execution & Japan Operations Lead — Japanese corporate execution discipline and institutional investor readiness. Former Country Director, Tekken Corporation Japan.

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Regulatory & Government Relations
Mojibul Haque

Regulatory & Government Relations Lead. Former Additional Secretary, Government of Bangladesh.

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COO, REVIVAL Group Japan
Sunny Lu

Trade finance and capital structuring support.

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Creative Director, REVIVAL Group
Ryo Yoshihashi (Kira)

Brand Creative Director — Japan & Global Collections. Former Monokuri.

Senior Advisory & Execution Team
Alauddin Mahmood
Executive Director, the textile complex
Industrial Infrastructure & Operations Director
Khalid Shahriar
Head of Compliance & HR, the textile complex
Chief Compliance & ESG Officer
M.S. Khan Shakil
Executive Director Logistics, the textile complex
Export Logistics & Trade Execution Director
Azad Hossain
Managing Director, STYLE Buying House (CTG)
Quality Assurance & Global Buyer Execution Lead
Humayun Kabir
Former Supply Chain Director, British American Tobacco
Chief Supply Chain Architect
Mehdi Ali
Director, FBCCI · Former President, Bangladesh Cotton Association
Raw Material Supply & Commodity Strategy Lead
Rokon Uddin Khan
Former Senior Manager, MTB & IFIC Bank
Trade Finance & Banking Execution Advisor
Munir Hossain
CMO USA, REVIVAL Global Ltd · Former Walmart, Disney
US Market Growth & Retail Expansion Lead
Eiji Kagawa
Director, Kagawa Wholesale Japan
Japan Market Entry & Retail Integration Lead
Masaharu Okada
Former NTT Legal · NYU Attorney
Legal & Institutional Structuring Lead
Jeremy Davis
Former Chief of Party, USAID
ESG & Sustainable Industrial Systems Lead
Tokushu Inamura
Assistant Professor, Kyushu University
Strategic Innovation Advisor — former IDEO, Finnair, Danish Design Council
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Independent audit & financial transparency
An independent third-party audit framework governing how funds are deployed and reported.

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Government-level facilitation
Investment-authority approval treating industrial reactivation as a national priority.

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Academic origin
Founded out of research at Kyushu University, on Professor Muhammad Yunus's Three Zeros framework.

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Executive team
Leadership appointed, with a senior advisory and execution bench of twelve across Bangladesh, Japan, China and the United States.

四 Strategic Ecosystem

REVIVAL brings together capital, operators, buyers and industrial assets — rather than trying to do everything alone.

Relationships below are shown in three categories, so the status of each is clear at a glance.

Confirmed Partners
  • Besting Ltd.Joint venture partner and investor (USD 17m) — manufacturing and operational capability
  • Charter HCPInvestment partner (USD 23m) — investment agreement in formation
Strategic Relationships
  • Nominated export bankFinancing structure & foreign-currency management
  • Independent audit frameworkThird-party audit & financial transparency
Future Opportunities
  • Additional financial institutionsUnder discussion for scale-up financing
  • ESG & development-focused investorsFabric Credit as a Scope 3 instrument
伍 Products, Brands & Route to Market

REVIVAL can become a reliable platform through which you source from Bangladesh.

The complex's own client history already includes the brands your buyers benchmark against. REVIVAL's current focus is on converting that heritage into active, traceable OEM orders.

Track Record
  • Global apparel brands across Europe, the US and JapanHistorical production clients of the complex
Strategic Relationships
  • Besting Ltd. buyer networkActive engagement, initial order focus
Future Opportunities
  • TakashimayaRetail collaboration opportunity — exploratory, not a confirmed order
  • ISETANRetail collaboration opportunity — exploratory, not a confirmed order
  • Kagawa Wholesale Office network~1,000-store distribution opportunity, pending validation
Nakshi Kantha applied to reclaimed denim — one-of-one construction
Espadrilles — recycled denim upper, jute and natural rubber sole
Hand-embroidered pieces, delivered retail-ready
Woven bags from reclaimed material
六 Built From a Japanese Foundation

REVIVAL began as research at Kyushu University. Japan is not a market we are entering — it is where this started.

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Origin — Kyushu University, 2018

Founded from academic research combining Japan's circular culture with Bangladeshi craftsmanship.

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Fukuoka headquarters

Revival Group Co. Ltd & Revival-LLC are registered and operate from Fukuoka, Japan.

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Mottainai as operating philosophy

Japan's ethic of respect for material and long-term thinking is built into how REVIVAL designs its supply chain.

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Japanese trading & buyer network

Production oversight and introductions to Japanese buyers run through established trading relationships.

The creative direction

Japanese in discipline. Bangladeshi in soul. Global in ambition. Commercial in execution. Human in impact. This is the register REVIVAL is built to operate in — a serious industrial transformation platform, not a charity, a conventional garment factory, or simply a fashion brand.

The intended message to a Japanese partner is direct: Bangladesh's productive capacity is open for business again, and REVIVAL is the platform built to connect that capacity to responsible Japanese buyers and investors.

REVIVAL textile work shown in exhibition
Packaging developed to Japanese retail standards
七 Circular Legacy — the Differentiator

The industrial ecosystem behind REVIVAL already designs for major international brands. REVIVAL connects that capability to a circular, traceable philosophy.

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Zero Poverty

Fair-trade contracts and Fabric Credit payments replace piece-rate survival wages.

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Zero Unemployment

45,000+ livelihoods targeted for restoration through OEM orders, not seasonal spot buys.

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Zero Net Carbon

Regenerative cotton, natural dye and closed-loop denim, verified kilogram by kilogram.

KUROHI Series

REVIVAL's runway-facing collection — Kioku Ori, "the art of weaving memory" — built from recycled denim and Nakshi Kantha embroidery, developed for the international runway platforms REVIVAL is targeting.

Target platformsNew York & Tokyo Fashion Week
StatusIn preparation

Nakshi Kantha Denim

One-of-one jackets rebuilt from post-production denim waste, each carrying a Fabric Soul digital record — origin, artisan name, and verified carbon savings.

Construction40–60 hours per jacket
Price range$3,500 – $15,000

Our origin fiction, written for the Social Fiction Design Competition's "World of Three Zeros," imagines Dhaka in 2050: a river runs clear again, and Fabric Credits have become a circular currency. It's a narrative framework, not a financial projection — the underlying instrument, Fabric Credit, is a real, verifiable unit tied to diverted textile waste, structured for corporate Scope 3 reporting — the kind of instrument Japanese manufacturers and retailers increasingly need for their own reporting.

REVIVAL: The City That Wore Its Memory — Social Business Fiction, 2026
Before — post-production textile waste awaiting disposal
After — offcuts rebuilt by hand into a continuous panel
Nakshi Kantha — UNESCO-recognised hand embroidery
Women artisans working a single quilt together
Handloom weaving — the Jamdani tradition
八 The Reactivation Is the Foundation, Not the Destination

Manufacturing → design → Japanese collaboration → brands → retail → export → circular products → community impact.

Revived factory
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Japanese design collaboration
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Global buyer order
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Production in Bangladesh
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International retail
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New investment
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More jobs
九 What This Model Restores, at Scale

Bangladesh's productive capacity is open for business again.

45,000+Livelihoods targeted for restoration
320 acFlagship facility under reactivation
500,000Garments producible daily, at full capacity
3Countries in one operating platform

REVIVAL intends to take this story beyond Bangladesh — engaging the international fashion, manufacturing and investment community, and participating in industry events around the Tokyo and New York fashion ecosystems.

International media outreachTokyo Fashion WeekNew York Fashion WeekIndustry & ESG forums
The livelihoods behind the numbers — artisan households connected to REVIVAL's production network.
十 Start the Conversation

Investment without orders does not create sustainable revival. Orders without reliable production do not create sustainable growth. REVIVAL is built to connect both.

Choose the track that fits how your organisation works with Bangladesh — every route reaches the same team.

FOR GOVERNMENT & PARTNERS

National economic value

Policy engagement, employment impact, and the case for treating industrial reactivation as a national priority.

Contact REVIVAL Global →
FOR INVESTORS & BANKS

The investment case

Structure, audit framework, and the model's scalability beyond a single industrial asset.

Request the Investment Brief →
FOR BUYERS & RETAILERS

Place an order

OEM production capacity, certifications, and a capsule or private-label collaboration route.

Talk to Our Buying Team →
JAPAN OFFICE

Revival Group Co. Ltd & Revival-LLC
3-5-33 Kotobukimachi, Hakata Ku,
Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken 812-0884, Japan
Mobile: +81 70-7648-6292

BANGLADESH OFFICE

Revival Global Ltd.
House 431 (4th Floor), Road 30,
Mohakhali DOHS, Dhaka-1206, Bangladesh
Mobile: +880 1777-330663