Walton is a symbol of the success of Bangladesh, said German Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Fahrenholtz on Thursday, hoping that the Bangladeshi electronics brand would be a global market player.
Bangladesh has made a rigorous progress in the past few years. And Walton is a showcase of such progress, the German ambassador added after visiting Walton Hi-Tech Park at Chandra in Gazipur on Thursday, according to a press release by Walton Group.
Peter Fahrenholtz said, ‘Walton has developed so well. I am very much impressed. Walton has a vision to be a global player through producing quality products. Today, I witnessed that Walton invested good enough on technologies’ machineries, mostly from Germany to produce quality products. I hope that Walton would be a global market player.’
Visiting Walton factory, Deputy Head of Mission of the German Embassy in Dhaka Constanza Zahringer said, “I was surprised. Walton is a well-structured factory in Bangladesh.”
Earlier, the German ambassador and the deputy head of mission visited refrigerator, compressor, LGP and LDP, motherboard and TV manufacturing units as well as the products’ display centre at Walton Hi-Tech Park.
On Thursday morning, Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited (WHIL) Managing Director Engineer Golam Murshed welcomed the German envoy and the deputy head of mission with a flower bouquet.
Following proper health safety rules and social distance, WHIL’s Deputy Managing Directors Humayun Kabir and Alamgir Alam Sarker, Walton’s International Business Unit (IBU) President Edward Kim, Executive Directors Col (Retd) Shahadat Alam, Uday Hakim, Yusuf Ali, Firoj Alam (also chief marketing officer), Amin Khan, Yeasir Al Imran, Rakib Uddin, Walton’s European Business Head Tawseef Al Mahmud, and Deputy Executive Director Rezaul Islam Minar were also present.
