With the B2B e-sales vision, a platform Initiated by Arif Chowdhury and One year later Zahid Shah joined him.

Shodagor.com started with objectives-

· Make Business Life easier in sourcing goods

· Helping route level business owners in their product market expansion

· Reducing Sales & Distribution Costs for manufacturer

· Presenting good quality authentic foreign products to local consumers

· Bangladeshi products international market expansion and gather Overseas buyer

Now his Shodagor.com is a number one B2B wholesale marketplace in Bangladesh, which has now become immensely popular among many business organizations and new entrepreneurs.

Shodagor.com mainly works with manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers and retailers. Currently, registered 8000 micro-entrepreneurs working with them & they created a buzz in country's tech market.

We talk with their various users, they said, “Product sourcing for business is now very easy by using this platform, people can save their time, energy and cost. Through this marketplace, entrepreneurs from remote areas are benefited by getting fair prices for their products. They are getting new customers and can expand their product market at a low cost. “ It’s a matter of surprise that this marketplace is running such a big trade day by day. For more information, we have run a study on several business people who are currently connected with Shodagor.com. Most of them are from remote areas that sell domestic products like vegetables, spices, herbs, handicrafts etc. So the key selling point of shodagor.com is domestic products. In-country such Bangladesh or abroad, domestic products have good demand. But sometimes it’s tough to spread the product around the world because of shipping and so on.

Shodagor.com is working to reduce the complexity. They are exporting the country's own produced products on a large scale outside of the country, and as well as those businessmen who wants to buy the products at dealer rate, they are also getting that opportunity. Shodagor.com has recently been awarded the e-commerce movers award organized by E-Commerce Associations of Bangladesh. Besides, they have become well known among domestic e-Commerce for their great moves. Shodagor.com is working to earn much foreign money as possible by exporting domestic goods. Especially, Shodagor.com has brought the demand of the international market for many valuable products, including jute, garments, and medical products forward. It has become popular among entrepreneurs. They are also highly interested in expanding their business using this export-friendly platform.

Bangladesh is well known around the whole world for garments product export. But sometimes buyers seek factories that will provide them with a small number of products that we already have a lot. But because of the digital communication gap, countries like Vietnam are moving forward to deliver this kind of service. Because of taking a massive amount of orders for the small quantity products, their economy increases with an incredible speed.

Shodagor.com promotes small factories in the international market to create a big market in these places. Shodagor.com stayed beside their clients and merchants at the time of the covid pandemic. Founder & CEO Mr Arif Chowdhury said, “We got doubled in the coronavirus pandemic. The name shodagor comes from the name of the ancient merchants. We are working to find a place in the heart of this country. Shodagor.com was always by the side of the helpless people in the pandemic. We didn’t keep our service off even for a day. Around 8000 entrepreneurs are currently using our platform. Co-Founder & CSO Mr. Zahid Shah said, “We want to create a strong & largest distribution & sourcing channel all over Bangladesh. Already we have 19 physical wholesale points” There is a twist in shodagor’s business model. Sometimes they call it a hybrid e-commerce platform. Because along with the online platform and mobile app they are setting up a physical wholesale point, where buyers can see product samples, ensure bulk orders, get trained to do business using shodagor platform, get help in sourcing goods. Founders of shodagor.com designed this model keeping in mind Bangladeshi mass users’ tech adaption capability and smartphone using behaviour.

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