Ispahani Group

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Tea / Food · MM Ispahani

MM Ispahani (Ispahani Group) is one of Bangladesh's oldest business houses, long associated with tea, and active across food, consumer goods and other trading and manufacturing interests.

Business: Tea blending, packaging and marketing; food and consumer products; plus trading and other diversified manufacturing and agribusiness lines.

Policy exposure

Tea-sector labour conditions and wages on estates and in processing. Tea-garden labour wages and welfare are recurrent policy and rights issues in Bangladesh, putting major tea companies under scrutiny on minimum-wage enforcement and working conditions. Source: analysis

Domestic tea supply, pricing and the role of the Bangladesh Tea Board. The Bangladesh Tea Board regulates auctions, standards and the broader tea economy, so policy there shapes margins for blenders and prices for consumers. Source: Bangladesh Tea Board

Food-safety and consumer-product standards compliance. As a packaged-food and beverage producer, the group is subject to BSTI and food-safety oversight, where standards enforcement affects public health and the firm's market access. Source: Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution