The Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) was established on the 1st of July 1963 in the port city of Chittagong, under the name of the ‘Agrabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry’. Interestingly, at that point in time, most of the foreign companies, primarily British, had their establishments located in the coastal region of the country. Subsequently, after the emergence of Bangladesh as a sovereign and independent country in 1971, it was felt that FICCI’s office should be shifted to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, for practical reasons, and that the name of the Chamber should be suitably modified to reflect the evolved identity, taking into account the inclusion of foreign companies located outside the Chittagong region. Consequently, in June 1987, the Chamber assumed its present name, i.e. the Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), and had its office shifted to Dhaka from Chittagong.
