Knitwear Manufacturers in Bangladesh: Exporters by Product and Order Size (2026)

Short answer: the large knit exporters in Bangladesh include DBL Group, Fakir Fashion, Square Fashions, Masco Group, Urmi Group, Epyllion, Viyellatex and Esquire Knit Composite. Between them they make T-shirts, polos, sweatshirts, knit trousers and shorts, activewear, nightwear and lingerie, mostly in Gazipur and Narayanganj. Their websites are written for long retail programmes, and none of the eight publishes a minimum order. A handful of smaller floors, including ours, take small runs, and the ones worth shortlisting put a number on it.

Disclosure: Collective Studio wrote this guide, and Collective Studio is one of the thirteen companies in it. We are a family-run knitwear factory in Narayanganj, so we have an interest in what you choose. That is why the list is built to be checked rather than to persuade. Every fact comes from the company's own website or an official record: its entry in the BKMEA member list, the Dhaka Stock Exchange, or an IFC project disclosure, all read on 5 November 2026. Nobody is ranked, nobody paid to be included or left out, there are no affiliate links, and inclusion is not an endorsement.

This guide covers knitwear only and sorts each company by what it makes and the order size it is set up for. If your first question is the minimum order, our review of low-MOQ clothing manufacturers in Bangladesh compares what twelve small-run suppliers publish. If you make woven goods as well, our guide to the best clothing factory in Bangladesh covers how to choose across both.

How to read this list

Own floor or buying house. Every company below says it runs its own production. Some also place work elsewhere: Stuff Limited began as a sourcing agent and its home page still offers “complete sourcing solutions”, and Fibril says it manages small minimums through its network. Neither model is wrong, but you should know which one is making your order. Our guide to buying house versus factory in Bangladesh explains the difference and the free registers that show it.

Check BKMEA membership yourself. The Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association publishes its member list with no login. Search the company name and open “View Details” for the membership number, factory address, headcount, machines and products. Three things to know before you read it. The member type says whether a company is an ordinary member, an associate member, or an associate member registered as a buying house. Large groups register each unit under its own name, so DBL appears as Mymun Textiles and Epyllion as Dekko Knitwears, not under the group name. And the figures are self-reported: many products fields simply read “All Kind of Knit Item”.

Ask for a certificate number, not a logo. Most rows below name standards. A name on a web page is a claim; a number you can look up is evidence. For GOTS, search the GOTS certified suppliers database and ask for the scope certificate itself. Our guide to what GOTS-certified organic cotton means explains why the certificate covers a facility and a shipment needs its own transaction certificate. Several sites we read list certificates with dates that have passed, so ask for current copies. Our checklist for vetting a factory for bulk orders covers the audits to request alongside them.

Thirteen is a sample. When we counted the BKMEA online list on 5 November 2026 it held about 2,800 member records, and many knit factories also belong to BGMEA. Our breakdown of how many garment factories there are in Bangladesh explains why the counts differ. Absence from this page says nothing about a company.

Thirteen knitwear manufacturers in Bangladesh, by type

The large vertical groups

These eight do most of their own knitting, dyeing and sewing, and their sites speak to retail sourcing teams. Read the stated capacities as a signal of the order size each one is set up for.

DBL Group. DBL says it runs apparel production from fibre to finished garment, with spinning, knitting, dyeing, printing and sewing lines for knitwear, woven and lingerie. Its apparel page describes a high-fashion jersey unit for kids, ladies and men, a performance-wear unit for athletic garments and a lingerie unit it puts at 190,000 pieces a day. A 2013 IFC disclosure places its dyeing, knitting and sewing complexes within a kilometre of each other in Kashimpur, Gazipur.

Epyllion Group. Epyllion lists six sewing units with 162 lines and a stated sewing capacity of 4.5 million pieces a month, plus printing and embroidery. Its compliance page records LEED Gold for Epyllion Style Limited in 2015 and for Epyllion Knitwears Limited in 2022. The group's units appear in the BKMEA list under their own names.

Esquire Knit Composite PLC. Esquire is a public company listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange, which records two factories: Kanchpur in Sonargaon, Narayanganj, and Valuka, Mymensingh. The group describes a composite facility running from yarn dyeing and knitting to sewing, washing and finishing. A listed company also publishes annual reports, which is a source of checkable facts few private factories offer.

Fakir Fashion Ltd. Fakir Fashion is a vertically integrated knit business in Rupganj, Narayanganj. It states more than 200 sewing lines, 300,000 pieces a day in sewing and finishing, and its own knitting, dyeing, printing and washing. It names H&M, COS, Zara and C&A among its clients and runs design studios in Bangladesh and London.

Masco Group. Masco, founded in 2001, calls itself a knit composite group and lists eight sewing units with their addresses, most in Tongi and Kashimpur, Gazipur, and one in Rupganj, Narayanganj. Its sustainability page publishes Higg FEM verified scores for 2021–22 and social-audit results for each unit, which is more detail than most groups show.

Square Fashions Ltd. Square, part of the Square Group, publishes the clearest product list of the large groups: T-shirts, polos, knitted shirts, tops, sweatshirts, jackets, shorts, trousers and dresses for men, women and kids. Its garment and fabric units are at Valuka, Mymensingh, with a second garment unit at Joydevpur, Gazipur, and it dyes fibre for its own mélange yarn. Its certifications page lists GOTS among more than twenty entries.

Urmi Group. Urmi's textile unit, Fakhruddin Textile Mills, knits, dyes and finishes fabric in Sreepur, Gazipur. The group runs a seamless knitting unit and its portfolio shows activewear, nightwear and evening wear, with printing, embroidery and washing in house. Its home page lists Fairtrade alongside GOTS, OCS, RCS, GRS and OEKO-TEX.

Viyellatex Group. Viyellatex says it began in 1996 as a family knit apparel business. Its knit unit, Viyellatex Ltd, is in Tongi, Gazipur, with spinning, printing and embroidery, packaging and a separate woven shirt factory in the group. Its about page lists GOTS scope, OEKO-TEX Standard 100 and Cotton made in Africa among others, alongside an ISO 14001:2004 entry, so ask which certificates are current.

Mid-size and small-run knit floors

Plummy Fashions Ltd. Plummy is a single knit apparel unit in Fatullah, Narayanganj, about 20 kilometres south of central Dhaka by its own account. It says the unit was designed to the US Green Building Council's LEED principles, with rainwater recycling and solar power. Its BKMEA record gives 350 employees. Its site does not list products or a minimum, so ask both before anything else.

Fibril. Fibril was founded in 2015 by textile engineers and runs four production lines at Diakhali, Zirabo: three for knitwear and one for woven. It describes itself as built for flexible minimums and difficult styles, and says it manages small quantities through a network of textile and garment businesses. Ask which parts of your order happen on its own lines.

Stuff Limited. Stuff Limited calls itself a “100% export oriented knit garment cut & sew factory” in Tongi, Gazipur. Its own history says it started in 2015 as a buying and sourcing agent and opened its own production line in 2019. It advertises a “Very Low MOQ” without a number, so get the figure in writing, per style and per colour.

TAT Clothing Co. TAT gives an address in Dakshinkhan, Dhaka, publishes “MOQ: 30 pcs” and makes T-shirts, polos, hoodies, sweaters and jackets. It says it is ISO 9001 certified but shows no certificate number. Thirty pieces is low for knit fabric dyed to order, so ask whether it applies per colour and whether the fabric comes from stock.

Collective Studio Ltd (us). We run our own cut-and-sew floor in the BSCIC Industrial Area, Panchabati, Narayanganj, and make knitwear only. Knitting and dyeing happen at partner mills that we specify, book and inspect. Our minimum is 150 pieces per style and per colour. Organic cotton is made in our GOTS-certified facility (RSC 9687), and we are a BKMEA member. An order takes about 70 days from order to your door by air. Our knitwear manufacturing page sets out the fabrics and finishes.

Which one fits your order

Start with quantity, because it rules out more suppliers than anything else. Then match the product.

By product, the companies' own descriptions point to this:

• T-shirts and polos: every company in the table makes them. Square publishes the widest knit product list, and the BKMEA record for Epyllion's Dekko Knitwears names T-shirts, polos and tank tops.
• Sweatshirts, hoodies and joggers: Square lists sweatshirts, jackets, shorts and trousers. Among the smaller floors, Stuff Limited and TAT list hoodies and sweatshirts, and we make hoodies and joggers on our own floor.
• Activewear: DBL describes a performance-wear unit and Urmi runs seamless knitting and shows activewear in its portfolio. We cut and sew activewear from stretch knits blended with elastane.
• Lingerie, nightwear and underwear: DBL has a dedicated lingerie unit, Urmi shows nightwear, and Stuff Limited lists underwear and swimwear.
• Organic cotton: DBL, Square, Urmi, Viyellatex, Esquire and we name GOTS. Check each certificate number in the GOTS database before you rely on it, and ask which unit holds it.

For a first run, compare like with like using our MOQ calculator: one style in two colours is 300 pieces at a 150 per-colour minimum, and the same 300 at a 300 per-style minimum if colours share it. Our low-MOQ manufacturing in Bangladesh page sets out how we handle small runs, and our page on clothing manufacturing in Bangladesh covers duty, shipping and timelines.

Who is not on the list, and why

We checked several more names that appear on other “top knitwear” lists and left them out where we could not verify a row from the company's own site or an official record:

• Beximco: we could not confirm that its garment plants are operating; our guide to the best clothing factory in Bangladesh sets out what has been reported.
• Mohammadi Group: its sweater division says it runs more than 2,000 machines in three units, but the site gives no factory location or certificates, and sweaters are a different product from the cut-and-sew jersey and fleece this guide covers.
• Pacific Jeans: its own site describes a denim manufacturer, so it belongs on a woven list.
• Envoy Group: its site names an apparel division but we could not find which garments it makes.
• Interstoff Apparels: it appears in the BKMEA list, but we could not find a working company website to check it against.

Where Collective Studio fits

We sit between the small-run floors and the export groups. We make knitwear only, on our own cut-and-sew floor in Narayanganj: tees, polos, hoodies, sweatshirts, joggers and activewear. Our minimum is 150 pieces per style and per colour, sizes split freely inside it. Sampling takes about 10 days, production 40 to 50 days after you approve the sample, then freight, so about 70 days from order to your door by air. If that fits your range, tell us what you are making, and ask us for the GOTS scope certificate and a live walk of the floor while you compare.