Which brands make clothes in Bangladesh? Their own lists

Most of the big high-street names do, and they say so in their own supplier lists. Read on 17 October 2026, those lists name 194 manufacturing sites in Bangladesh for Next, 188 for H&M Group, 168 for Lidl’s textiles and shoes, 142 for Primark, 67 for Tesco, 50 for Gap and 45 for Fast Retailing, the owner of UNIQLO. Inditex, which owns Zara, publishes no count by country, and adidas lists no primary supplier there.

These are the brands’ own lists, not our clients. CMB Sourcing Ltd. is a buying house in Narayanganj, Dhaka, and none of the brands on this page buys through us.

Where do these numbers come from?

Only from documents each company published itself: a factory list, a supplier map, an annual report or a modern slavery statement. We opened every list on 17 October 2026 and counted the rows whose country is Bangladesh. Where a list repeats a factory once for each supplier that uses it, as Next’s does, we counted each site once.

Two kinds of brand are not counted. Some publish their list only as a map on Open Supply Hub, a free public map of production sites, sometimes shown inside their own website, where it can be filtered by country but not read as a single document; Marks & Spencer, C&A, Mango and Levi Strauss & Co. do this. Others publish no factory list at all. For both, the table gives what the company does say, and leaves the count empty rather than estimating it.

Which brands list factories in Bangladesh?

Sportswear is covered separately. Our guide to where Nike, lululemon and Gymshark make their clothes found no Bangladeshi factory on Nike’s July 2026 map, two Tier 1 facilities on lululemon’s May 2026 list and five Bangladeshi garment factories on Gymshark’s 2025 list.

Why the counts are not directly comparable

Each company decides what goes on its list, so a larger number does not always mean more business.

• Tiers. Some lists show only the factories that sew the finished product (Tier 1). Others add laundries, printers and dye houses, or the fabric mills behind them. Kmart Australia lists 84 Bangladeshi processing facilities next to its 38 finished-goods factories.
• Products. H&M Group’s list covers home textiles, shoes and accessories as well as clothing, and Target’s includes cosmetics factories. Tesco’s covers F&F clothing and home; Lidl’s covers textiles and shoes.
• Time. Lidl lists producers that delivered at any point in 2025. Most others list factories active on one date.
• Size. A count says nothing about volume. Primark’s map lists 142 factories in Bangladesh, 18% of its 797, but they employ 458,689 of the 763,635 workers the map records, or 60%. Next lists far fewer factories in Bangladesh than in China, yet its modern slavery statement puts 33% beside Bangladesh and 28% beside China, without saying what the percentage measures.

Does Zara make clothes in Bangladesh?

Inditex, which owns Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull&Bear, has not published a country count, and we found no public factory list from it. Its Annual Report 2025 says its supply chain had 6,684 factories across all tiers in 49 markets, 3,240 of them sewing factories, and that its suppliers are organised into ten clusters: Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Türkiye, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Vietnam and Cambodia. It breaks factory totals down only by region and by process, with 4,133 in Asia and the rest of the world. The same report lists 85 Inditex employees in Bangladesh. So the group that makes Zara sources from Bangladesh, but it does not say how much.

H&M, Next and Primark: the longest Bangladesh lists

Next names the most. Its Tier 1 list, produced in February 2026, has 194 Bangladeshi sites out of 1,478, behind China (656) and India (234). Its modern slavery statement for the year to January 2026 says Next sources from 33 countries through 728 active Tier 1 product suppliers, and that more than 150 of its supplier factories in Bangladesh have reached 100% safety remediation, recognised by the RMG Sustainability Council or the Accord.

H&M Group’s August 2026 list has 188 factories in Bangladesh out of 1,547, fourth after Mainland China (466), Türkiye (278) and India (220). Of the 188, 134 are marked as manufacturing units; the others are processing or component units. They belong to 105 suppliers.

Primark’s Global Sourcing Map, last updated in November 2025, lists 797 factories in 15 countries. Bangladesh has 142, second to China’s 404.

UNIQLO, Gap, PVH and Levi’s

Fast Retailing, UNIQLO’s owner, publishes one combined list, dated 31 August 2026, of garment factories, the sites they send work to, core fabric mills and makers of labels and trims. Bangladesh has 45 of its 670 entries, third after China (346) and Vietnam (112): 27 garment factories, six processing sites, six fabric mills and six trim makers.

Gap Inc.’s February 2026 list covers Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta and, the company says, nearly all of its spend with Tier 1 factories. Bangladesh has 50 of 552 factories, fifth after Vietnam, India, Indonesia and Cambodia. Nineteen of the 50 are listed for denim and woven bottoms.

PVH, owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, lists 55 Bangladeshi finished-goods factories active in July 2026, 50 for apparel and five for accessories, plus 16 fabric and trim suppliers.

Levi Strauss & Co. publishes its factory list on Open Supply Hub. Its Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 says it sourced from contract manufacturers in about 32 countries, with no more than 30% from any one country, and names Bangladesh among the countries where many of its products are made.

Supermarkets and discounters: Lidl, Tesco, Walmart and ALDI

Lidl’s list of textile and shoe producers that delivered in 2025 has 168 in Bangladesh and 171 in China, out of 463. No other country comes close; Pakistan is next with 43.

Tesco’s list of Tier 1 F&F clothing and home factories active at the end of August 2025, published in April 2026, has 67 in Bangladesh out of 426, second to China’s 159. Its separate list of fabric mills and spinners names 34 Bangladeshi mills.

Walmart publishes no factory list that we could find. Its FY2026 ESG report says suppliers disclosed 26,300 active facilities across all its products, and names apparel from Bangladesh as one of ten priority supply chains. ALDI SÜD’s textiles page says more than 80% of its own-label clothing and home textiles are made in Asia and that its sustainability teams work from Hong Kong and Bangladesh; it gives no factory count.

Australia and Canada: Kmart and Canadian Tire

The apparel list Kmart Australia published in November 2025 has 249 finished-goods factories. Bangladesh has 38 of them, second to China’s 129, plus 84 Bangladeshi processing facilities that its suppliers use. Canadian Tire Corporation’s list of Tier 1 factories for its own-brand clothing, footwear and accessories, last updated on 6 January 2026, has 61 in Bangladesh out of about 300, second only to China.

Which big brands list no factory in Bangladesh?

A few, mostly in sportswear and premium fashion. adidas’s list of primary suppliers and their subcontractors dated 1 July 2026 has 455 entries and none in Bangladesh. Its separate lists name one Bangladeshi licensee factory, which makes goods for a company licensed to use the adidas brand, and one Bangladeshi wet-process supplier of materials. Lacoste’s June 2026 list of 1,150 factories across its tiers has none in Bangladesh. Nike’s map showed none when we checked it in September 2026. We have not found a statement from any of the three explaining why, so we do not guess.

How can you check which brands a factory works for?

Anyone can check a factory’s claim in three places, free of charge.

1. The brand’s own list. Open the list linked in the table above and search for the factory’s name or address. If the brand publishes it, the factory should be there.
2. Open Supply Hub. Search the factory’s name on Open Supply Hub. Its profile shows which brands and other organisations have listed it, and when. Our guide to verifying factory certificates in Bangladesh explains how to read a profile.
3. The International Accord. The Accord publishes a monthly list of the Bangladeshi factories its signatory brands use. Its report as of 30 September 2026 lists about 1,766 factories employing about 2.84 million workers. For each it shows how many signatories are active there, but not which ones.

A brand on a factory’s list proves that the factory made something for that brand at some point. It does not prove that the factory still does, that it made the product you want, or that it passed the brand’s last audit.

What does this mean if you are sourcing clothing?

It tells you that factories in Bangladesh make for most of the brands above. It does not tell you which factory suits your order.

• Be wary of logo walls. Factories and agents often show famous brand logos. Ask which products they made for each brand and in which year, then check the brand’s list.
• Match the factory to your size. A factory with lines set up for large high-street programmes plans around large repeat orders. Ask for its minimum per style and colour before you ask for a price.
• Ask for your own proof. The current audit report for the factory that will sew your order, and an inspection report on your goods, tell you more than any brand name.

Our guides to garment factories in Bangladesh and to Bangladesh’s garment exports show where the factories are and which countries buy most.

Are these brands our clients?

No. CMB Sourcing Ltd. does not supply, and has never claimed to supply, any of the brands named on this page. We place orders from 500 pieces per style and colour in our sister factory or an audited partner factory, and we name the factory to you in writing before production starts, so you can check it on Open Supply Hub and the brands’ lists yourself.