Stanislas oversees QIMA’s inspection and audit operations across Consumer Products globally, with direct responsibility for the South Asia region, including Bangladesh. He has worked closely with factories, brands, and industry bodies across the subcontinent for more than a decade, and he regularly visits Bangladesh as part of QIMA’s operational leadership. He co-founded AsiaTech QC in Guangzhou in 2007, which was acquired by AsiaInspection (now QIMA) in 2013. Over a 13-year tenure at QIMA, he has risen from Business Development Manager to VP Operations. He holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Emlyon Business School and a Master’s in Business from KEDGE Business School, and is based in Hong Kong. Recently, the Textile Focus team had a conversation with Stanislas Teisseire; key discussion points are mentioned below for our readers.
Textile Focus: What services is QIMA Bangladesh providing right now?
Stanislas Teisseire: At its core, what QIMA Bangladesh does is simple: we help factories prove that their products meet the standards their buyers require, and we do it fast. That means ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratory testing in Dhaka, with reports within 3-4 days; on-site pre-shipment and inline inspections with a 48-hour turnaround; and audits covering manufacturing, social, environmental, and ethical compliance.[4]
The way factories and buyers use those services has shifted significantly over the past two years. Bangladesh featured in 13% of US buyers’ diversification plans in 2025, indicating a growing share of our clients is entering the market for the first time.[1]
New buyers need more than a test certificate. They need supplier training programs to help factories understand and meet specific protocol requirements. They need consistent data they can present to their own compliance teams. myQIMA, our digital platform, addresses that directly: one place to book services, access reports, and track supplier performance in real time.[5]
For a procurement team managing five or six sourcing countries simultaneously, having consistent data standards across all of them is not a convenience. It is what allows them to make confident, defensible sourcing decisions.
Textile Focus: How does Bangladesh compare with other countries in this subcontinent?
Stanislas Teisseire: South Asia has no shortage of garment-exporting countries, and each has a distinct identity. India is enormous and diverse, drawing buyers across textiles, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and much more. Pakistan has genuine strength in denim and cotton knitwear. Sri Lanka punches well above its weight in high-compliance categories such as lingerie and sportswear. Bangladesh is different from all of them in one specific way: it has built the world’s deepest concentration of RMG expertise, at scale, in a single geography.
That focus shows up in the data. QIMA’s Q1 2026 Barometer records South Asia inspection and audit demand growing 14% year over year in 2025, with Bangladesh as the primary driver in the apparel sector.[2]
It also shows up in infrastructure. As of late 2025, Bangladesh had 268 LEED-certified garment factories, more than any other country in the global apparel sector. No other subcontinent market comes close on that metric.[6]
The question going forward is whether Bangladesh can convert that manufacturing depth into higher-value product categories while keeping compliance performance on an upward trajectory. Countries like Sri Lanka have shown it is possible to move into premium segments without losing buyer confidence. Bangladesh has the scale to do it. The work now is to maintain that momentum.
Textile Focus: What special services from QIMA make a difference from competitors?
Stanislas Teisseire: The most meaningful difference is how we use the data. QIMA was built as a digital-first company. Our QIMAone platform gives buyers real-time visibility across their supplier networks, and our AI-driven Risk Radar helps procurement teams spot compliance risks before they become shipment failures, not after. Few traditional TIC providers offer that level of integration at scale.[5]
The second difference is delivery. Our 48-hour on-site inspection guarantee with 24-hour reports is not a marketing claim. It is the operational commitment our local Bangladesh team makes every day, backed by ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory accreditation that regulators in the US, EU, and beyond accept without question.[4]
That matters because half of all supply chains globally expect regulatory compliance to be a major operational challenge in 2026. Catching a problem during production and catching it at the port are not the same situation. The difference in cost, time, and buyer relationships is significant.[1]
Third, we are genuinely local. Our Bangladesh team understands how factories here operate, how corrective action conversations should be conducted, and how to build trust with factory management over time. That combination of local knowledge and global standards is what clients find most difficult to replicate with other providers.[4]
Textile Focus: What is your forecast for business dimensions in the coming period?
Stanislas Teisseire: I would rather give the industry a clear picture than a comfortable one. The near-term outlook is difficult, and the reasons are specific.
QIMA’s Q1 2026 Barometer recorded South Asia inspection and audit demand rising 14% year on year in 2025, which reflected real momentum. Then, in March 2026, the picture changed. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz triggered energy shortages across South and Southeast Asia, with textile and apparel suppliers in Bangladesh among those reported to be operating below capacity due to disrupted fuel supplies. Buyers already navigating the consequences of US-China tariff escalation began reviewing order volumes more conservatively.[2][3]
Our Bangladesh operations team has been direct about the pressure: fuel costs are rising, and order reductions from the US and EU are a genuine near-term risk. The QIMA 2026 Global Sourcing Survey confirms the wider picture: four in five businesses globally expect costs to be a major supply chain disruption this year. For Asia-based supply chains outside China, that figure rises to nine in ten.[9][1]
What I would say to factory owners is this: the buyers who matter are not leaving Bangladesh. They are looking for partners who can demonstrate quality and compliance even under cost pressure. That is a harder case to make when margins are tight. It is the only case worth making.
Textile Focus: What are the developments in functional and fashion products to catch new global trends?
Stanislas Teisseire: The most significant shift I observe is that product complexity is increasing faster than many Bangladesh factories are currently set up to handle. The volume business in basic knitwear and standard woven goods will always exist, but the margin pressure in commodity categories is relentless. Buyers willing to pay a premium are specifying performance fabrics: moisture-wicking, UV-protective, flame-retardant, or certified to specific chemical-safety standards for children’s products and food-contact textiles.
QIMA’s testing laboratories verify those performance properties against ASTM, ISO, and EN standards — the benchmarks that US and European buyers require — giving factories the documented evidence they need to support their product claims credibly.[4] The second shift is around material origin. Brand sustainability commitments are no longer voluntary in many export markets. The EU Green Claims Directive and supply chain due diligence legislation are making provenance a legal question, not just a marketing one. QIMA’s material tracing and provenance testing map fiber origins from raw material to finished product, covering recycled polyester, certified organic cotton, and other materials for which a supplier declaration alone is no longer sufficient.[4][8][10]
Factories that invest in both capabilities will access a different tier of buyer relationship. Factories that focus solely on price competition will find it increasingly difficult to hold that ground.
Textile Focus: What local strengths and resources enhance the future sustainability of the industry?
Stanislas Teisseire: When our audit team visits a LEED-certified factory in Bangladesh, we often notice stronger compliance on wages and working hours, too. But I don’t think LEED certification directly leads to better labor compliance. Three things are more likely at work. First, shared investment capacity. Factories that can afford LEED certification tend to be larger and better capitalized. They serve higher-tier international brands and have the resources to invest in wage-and-hour compliance rather than compete on labor costs alone. Second, common buyer pressure: factories pursuing LEED often supply brands that closely monitor wage-and-hour compliance, so the correlation reflects what these buyers require, not something LEED itself produces. Third, management system spillover. LEED certification requires ongoing documentation, data tracking, and continuous improvement. Those same habits often carry over into HR systems, including scheduling, overtime records, and payroll, which makes wage-and-hour compliance easier to sustain.
Workforce depth is a second structural advantage. Four decades of garment manufacturing have built a workforce with real technical depth at every level: cutters, machinists, quality control technicians, and production supervisors. That skill base took years to build, and it is not easily replicated.[7]
Finally, the cluster model matters. The concentration of suppliers, mills, accessories manufacturers, and logistics in a compact geography creates coordination efficiencies that dispersed supply chains cannot replicate quickly. As global buyers seek fewer but deeper supplier partnerships, that density is a structural advantage worth protecting.
Textile Focus: Any message you want to convey to the industry for QIMA Bangladesh?
Stanislas Teisseire: My message is more direct than people expect from a company in our position: factories that treat quality and compliance as a business strategy (not a cost of doing business) are the ones that will grow over the next three to five years.
I spent six years building a quality control company in China before joining QIMA. I have seen manufacturers shift from competing on price to competing on reliability and transparency, and those that did it early are now the preferred suppliers for the buyers who matter. Bangladesh is at the same crossroads.
The near-term pressures are real. Fuel costs are rising, order volumes from key markets are uncertain, and the compliance threshold for entering the US and EU keeps rising. These are not arguments for delay. These are arguments for moving faster.[3][9]
QIMA’s role is to give factories the data, the accreditation, and the training they need to demonstrate that trajectory to buyers, not just to pass one audit, but to show consistent, documented improvement over time.[4]
What has surprised me in the past few months is how factories have responded to the cost pressure from the Hormuz disruption. We would expect compliance corners to get cut when margins tighten — that is the historical pattern. What our audit team is actually seeing is that the better-run factories are using the pressure as justification internally to accelerate corrective action programs, because they understand that a compliance failure right now, when buyers are already nervous, is an existential risk. The ones treating quality as protection rather than overhead are the ones holding their order books.
Supply chains with full visibility and strong digitization consistently report fewer compliance struggles and stronger operational outcomes across the board. Bangladesh has everything it needs to be one of the world’s most trusted manufacturing destinations. The infrastructure is there. The skill is there. The pace of change needs to match the ambition.
For more information on QIMA’s Bangladesh services, visit www.qima.com/consumer-products/quality-control/quality-control-bangladesh
SOURCES
[1] QIMA 2026 Global Sourcing Survey: From Disruption to Opportunity. QIMA, 2026. https://www.qima.com/whitepaper/2026-global-sourcing-survey
[2] QIMA 2026 Q1 Barometer: Supply Chains Avoided the Worst in 2025. QIMA, January 2026. https://www.qima.com/newsroom/news/news-q1-2026-barometer
[3] QIMA 2026 Q2 Barometer: After a Strong Start, Hormuz Closure Raises Sourcing Risks. QIMA, April 2026. https://www.qima.com/newsroom/news/news-q2-2026-barometer
[4] QIMA Consumer Products Services, Bangladesh. QIMA, 2026. https://www.qima.com/consumer-products/bangladesh
[5] QIMAone Supply Chain Management Platform. QIMA, 2026. https://www.qimaone.com
[6] Bangladesh Sets Record with 36 LEED Certified Apparel Factories in a Year. Apparel Views, October 2025. https://www.apparelviews.com/bangladesh-sets-record-with-36-leed-certified-apparel-factories-in-a-year
[7] How Bangladesh Plans to Tackle the Issue of Audit Fatigue. Fibre2Fashion, 2024. https://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/how-bangladesh-plans-to-tackle-the-issue-of-audit-fatigue–305940-newsdetails.htm
[8] EU Green Claims Directive. European Commission, 2024. https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/circular-economy/green-claims_en
[9] QIMA Bangladesh Operations Team, internal input, 2026.
[10] EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D). European Commission. https://commission.europa.eu/business-economy-euro/doing-business-eu/sustainability-due-diligence-responsible-business/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence_en
