Mask Associates
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Jute trade, manufacture |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founder | S.B. Kader |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | S. B. Kader (Chairman & Managing Director) |
| Products | raw jute and jute yarn, hessian/sacking cloth/bag, and caddies |
| Revenue | US$5 Million-US$10 Million |
| Owner | S.B. Kader |
Number of employees | 50+ |
| Website | http://mask.associates/ |
Mask Associates is a social business in Bangladesh that is involved with jute manufacturing and export. It was Established in 1982 by S.B. Kader. MASK Associates started its business by representing REB Willcox of London, UK. Kader is a Commercially Important Person (CIP) declared by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh. The company exports raw jute and jute yarn, hessian/sacking cloth/bag, and caddies worldwide.
A Social business, as defined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and described in his books, is a business that was created and designed to address a social problem and is a non-loss, non-dividend company. [1][2]
In 1993, Syed Mustaq Kader, son of S.B. Kader and a director of the company, became the leader of the company. One of the key achievements of the company is the develop a system to clean-up oil spill using jute during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, a system that was endorsed by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
MASK Associates is an ISO Certified Company for the standardisations ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004, since 2012 and 2015. In 2018, the company received an A credit rating from Alpha Rating Limited.
Sources
- আশরাফ আলী, তেলদূষণ থেকে সমুদ্রের জীববৈচিত্র্য রক্ষায় পরিবেশবান্ধব পাট ও পাটের দড়ি ব্যবহার, Daily Naya Diganta, 17 May 2018
- Credit Ratings, New Nation, November 15, 2018
- Mask Associates (pvt.) Ltd., Alibaba
Footnote
- ^ Yunus, Muhammad (2009). Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. PublicAffairs. p. 320. ISBN 978-1-58648-667-9.
- ^ Yunus, Muhammad (2011). Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. PublicAffairs. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-58648-956-4.