Green Grocery, a company that serves safe food through
its own website and Facebook page
has got Angel Investment. A group of young investors led by M Asif Rahman, founder of ARcom, a footwear service provider, have recently invested in Green Grocery.
Talukder Mohammad Sabbir, founder and managing director of Green Grocery, did not give any information about the amount of investment. “With the vow, ‘Quality That You Can Trust’ - Green Grocery continues to work to ensure that safe food is produced, stored and served properly," he said. Investors include WP Developer CEO Nazmul Hasan Rupak, EFLI co-founder and CEO Jahangir Alam, EFLI co-founder and CEO Pran Krishna Pal, Asif Anam Siddiqui, Athalab CEO Md. Shahjahan.
Green Grocery builds a network of food production, storage and timely delivery in 2020 with the objective of providing safe food to people's daily diet. The network includes more than forty food products including Tulshimala Polao rice, gawa ghee, mustard oil milled in ghani, pure honey, various secret recipe spices, homemade jelly, peanut butter which has already become a favorite of many. This organization run by a group of young people is working closely with the marginal farmers to ensure the purity of the product.
Regarding investment in Green Grocery, M Asif Rahman said, “The business concept of D2C (Direct to Consumer) is new in Bangladesh. Much more is needed at this time. The people of the country are now more aware of the issue of food safety than ever before, considering that Green Grocery is a promising initiative. It can go a long way if it can be marketed properly while maintaining the quality of the product as planned
. As we considered the business side of investing in green groceries, so too was the issue of social responsibility important to us. We think that the product I choose for my family should be accepted by everyone for their family, is an opportunity to be involved in the promotion of safe products through Green Grocery.'
Sayem Murshed and Saba Chowdhury, two other co-founders of Green Grocery, said that Green Grocery has already started working extensively on the supply and marketing process of their products and this investment is working as a special help there.
Regarding the investment, Talukdar Mohammad Sabbir said that all these new investors in Green Grocery are established and at the same time successful entrepreneurs. In the same way that they bring financial investment to Green Grocery, their new ideas and long-term business experiences are equally important investment for Green Grocery. We hope that Green Grocery will be able to use this achievement to move forward.