Functions of buyers’ agent in leather exporting process: a brief analysis on the intermediary in the leather industry of Bangladesh

This internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration, 2017.

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Main Author: Bushra, Sadia
Other Authors: Islam, Tamzidul
Format: Internship report
Language:English
Published: BARC University 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10361/8651
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spelling 10361-86512019-09-30T03:14:25Z Functions of buyers’ agent in leather exporting process: a brief analysis on the intermediary in the leather industry of Bangladesh Bushra, Sadia Islam, Tamzidul BRAC Business School, BRAC University Leather industry of Bangladesh Leather export Leather goods This internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration, 2017. Cataloged from PDF version of internship report. Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-27). Intermediaries play an important role in the exchange of goods and services across borders. The main purpose of this report is to conduct a brief analysis on the contributing role of an agents’ buyer as intermediary in the leather industry of Bangladesh. It can be also viewed as providing a justification for why there are professionals to facilitating a trade in between the local producers and the international buyers. This report follows qualitative research method and most of the information was collected from secondary sources. A thorough unstructured interview was conducted with two experienced buyers’ agents. This brief research shows that buyers’ agent performs several roles besides acting as the intermediary. A middleman or agent holds higher reputation in market for selling high quality goods. An agent works like an appraiser who is an expert in leather field. The purpose of conducting business through the agents is due to the intensive that the agents make large investment on relationship marketing to secure interactive relation with foreign buyers. Moreover, agents are skilled experts who have complete expertise in detecting quality of leather. They monitor and manage every step of the consignment on behalf of the foreigner buyers. Through comprehensive and secured financial tool like letter of credit, agents insure the payments from the buyers. These factors are main concerns for buyers’ to order from our country. Hence, activities of agents’ are the prime source for drawing foreign buyers into our leather industry Sadia Bushra B. Business Administration  2017-12-19T09:36:23Z 2017-12-19T09:36:23Z 2017 2017-08-02 Internship report ID 13104109 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/8651 en BRAC University Internship reports are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 28 pages application/pdf BARC University
institution Brac University
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topic Leather industry of Bangladesh
Leather export
Leather goods
spellingShingle Leather industry of Bangladesh
Leather export
Leather goods
Bushra, Sadia
Functions of buyers’ agent in leather exporting process: a brief analysis on the intermediary in the leather industry of Bangladesh
description This internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration, 2017.
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title Functions of buyers’ agent in leather exporting process: a brief analysis on the intermediary in the leather industry of Bangladesh
title_short Functions of buyers’ agent in leather exporting process: a brief analysis on the intermediary in the leather industry of Bangladesh
title_full Functions of buyers’ agent in leather exporting process: a brief analysis on the intermediary in the leather industry of Bangladesh
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