Business Desk :
The Rupali Bank Limited, return to its old logo which was established in 1972. Chairman of Board of Directors of the bank Monzur Hossain unveiled the new logo at a colorful ceremony held at the bank’s headquarters in the city on Tuesday, said a press relesae.
“We made profit of Tk5.37 billion last year from a loss of Tk 1 billion in the previous year,” Monzur Hossain said it at the new logo unveiling ceremony programme. “We have turned around,” he said.
A red circle surrounding a green banyan tree, the same colours as the national flag, make up the new logo.
“It was the original logo when the bank was established in 1972. After 1977, it was changed and over the years it has been changed again and again. Now we have returned to the original form,” Managing Director said, flanked by the Chairman of the Board of Directors Monzur Hossain.
Managing Director of the bank Ataur Rahman Prodhan was also present at the unveiling programme.
Prodhan said fewer branches are incurring losses now than before. “It (the number of branches making losses) is now only 33, compare to 144 even two years back.”
Prodhan thanked the bank management for their success and said ‘sky is the limit’.
The banyan tree is a symbol of economic activity, he said. “In the past village markets used to sit under banyan tree”. He said the Rupali Bank’s success was better than all other state-owned bank, “if we compare on the basis of the number of branches”.
