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Import & Distribution · Bangladesh

Global brands. Local shelves.

We import international cosmetics, personal-care and consumer brands and move them through the dealer, retail and modern-trade networks that reach consumers across Bangladesh.

Head office
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Focus
Cosmetics & personal care
Channels
Dealer · Retail · Modern trade
Role
Import, distribution, market entry

Who we are

A brand does not enter a market. It gets carried into one.

Nexora Trading is a Bangladesh-based import and distribution company built around one job: taking a product that already works somewhere else and making it work here.

That means clearing it, pricing it, placing it and keeping it on the shelf — across a retail landscape that runs on relationships as much as on logistics. We work with international manufacturers and brand owners who want real coverage in Bangladesh rather than a shipment and a hope.

What we do

Five things, done properly.

Import and distribution are usually sold as one line item. In practice they are five separate disciplines, and a brand fails in this market when any one of them is treated as an afterthought.

  1. Import

    Sourcing, documentation, compliance and landed logistics. We handle the route from a manufacturer’s gate to a bonded warehouse in Dhaka so a brand can enter the country without building a local operation first.

  2. Distribution

    Stock moves out through dealers, general stores, super shops and modern trade. Coverage is planned territory by territory, with the ordering and replenishment rhythm each channel actually runs on.

  3. Market Development

    Pricing structures, channel margins, pack strategy and launch sequencing — decided against how the category behaves here, not against a spreadsheet written somewhere else.

  4. Retail Reach

    Presence is not the same as availability. We work on shelf position, visibility and consistency of supply, so a shopper finds the product the second and third time they look for it.

  5. Brand Growth

    Trade activation, in-store presence and channel feedback that goes back to the brand owner — so the next shipment is planned on evidence rather than optimism.

Shoppers moving through the main aisle of a busy super shop Retail network

Retail here is not one market. It is four.

A super shop in Dhaka and a general store in a district town buy differently, stock differently and expect different things from a supplier. Treating them as one channel is the fastest way to lose a brand’s momentum in its first year.

  • Dealers and wholesale networks
  • General stores and neighbourhood retail
  • Super shops and modern trade
  • Digital and e-commerce channels
A shopper comparing personal care products in a retail aisle Point of choice

The decision happens in three seconds.

Cosmetics and personal care are chosen at the shelf — by price, by pack, by whether the product is there at all on the day someone reaches for it. Consistency of supply does more for a brand in this category than almost anything else.

Our job is to make sure the answer to “is it in stock?” stays yes, in every territory a brand is sold in.

International to local

One route, four handovers.

Every point below is a place where a product can stall. Nexora owns all four so the brand owner deals with one partner instead of five.

  1. 01 · Origin

    Global brand

    Manufacturers and brand owners looking for a route into a market of more than 170 million people.

  2. 02 · Gateway

    Nexora Trading

    Import, documentation, compliance, warehousing and commercial structure — handled in country.

  3. 03 · Network

    Retail network

    Dealers, general stores, super shops and modern trade, covered territory by territory.

  4. 04 · Destination

    The consumer

    The product available, priced correctly and on the shelf when the shopper is standing in front of it.

A shopper leaving a retail store with bags of purchases

Why it matters

A market that is buying more, and choosing more carefully.

Bangladeshi consumers have more options in cosmetics and personal care than they have ever had. Brands that arrive without distribution behind them get one shot at the shelf. Brands that arrive with it get a category position.

Our brands

Represented by Nexora.

We take on a small number of brands and give each one real coverage — from the port to the shelf.

Partnerships

Looking for a route into Bangladesh?

Tell us about the brand, the category and where you are today. We will tell you what entering this market actually takes.