BD SMEs can benefit from PUM experts

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Senior officials of PUM, a Dutch enterprise providing expert services for entrepreneurs, have met Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal and discussed PUM’s activities and their desire to expand their work in Bangladesh in a substantial way, reports UNB.
Johan van den Berg, Country Coordinator Nepal and Bangladesh, and Murielle Klier-van der Pol, Project Officer of PUM, held the meeting with Bangladesh envoy in The Hague on Thursday, according to a message received here on Friday night.
During the meeting, Johan expressed their preparedness to significantly expand their service in Bangladesh ranging from any sector like ICT, dairy processing and products, leather industry and consumer goods, timber processing, animal feed production, poultry farming, vegetable and fruits, fisheries, water purification and waste water management, bakery and bread, vegetable and edible oil, healthcare, food processing, chemical processing, communication and marketing consultancy, banking and micro-finance, arts and crafts to horticulture etc.
PUM, over the years, has helped a good number of Bangladeshi SMEs and businesses to significantly expand their businesses in a sustainable way.
Johan handed over a list of PUM representatives in Bangladesh and explained how they collect applications from competent SMEs.
Ambassador Belal assured that the Embassy will henceforth closely coordinate with the PUM representatives in Bangladesh so that more support from PUM could be directed towards Bangladesh.
Ambassador particularly requested Johan to help SMEs in Bangladesh to gain from unparallel Dutch experiences in sectors like dairy farming, green house technology, floriculture, agriculture etc.
In the year 2015, PUM has helped 1710 businesses in 73 countries.
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