Crown Wears Pvt Limited

Sparrow Group's five-factory woven complex in Bhaluka, sewing bottoms and shirts for Gap and M&S

Updated Sep 2026

Crown Wears (Pvt.) Ltd. is the Bhaluka, Mymensingh woven-garment arm of Bangladesh's Sparrow Group of Industries, a five-factory complex the group dates to 2010 and the BGMEA register to 2003 [2][5][6]. It is a large, vertically finished operation rather than a sewing shop: roughly 9,250-9,950 workers, 4,280 machines and 55 lines across 688,267 sq ft, with laundry capacity of 100,000 pieces a day, garment dyeing of 30,000 and denim washing of 20,000 [2][4][6][7]. Output is woven tops, bottoms and outerwear — chinos and 5-pocket pants, men's and women's shirts and blouses, dresses, ponte pants and blazers — in cotton, cotton/spandex, organic cotton and linen [2][4][8]. The US ocean records bear that out: 222 shipments to 11 US and Canadian buyers between January and August 2026, 190 of them to Gap Inc. brands, plus American Eagle, Express's Phoenix Retail, Levi Strauss and TJX's Winners [1]. Compliance is documented rather than asserted — GOTS and OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 certificates, BSCI/SEDEX/SCAN on the BGMEA file, RSC and Accord inspection with the main plant 99% remediated, and a place on Marks & Spencer's published supplier list [2][9].

Business type

Woven ready-made garment manufacturer and exporter — an owner-operated factory complex in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, not a trading house or agent; BGMEA general member and EPB-registered woven exporter.^2,3,4

Legal name

Crown Wears (Pvt.) Ltd. (filed on US customs records as "Crown Wears Pvt Limited").^1,2,3

Parent group

Unit of Sparrow Group of Industries, whose own site lists three Bangladesh operations — Sparrow (Gazipur), Crown (Jamirdia, Masterbari, Bhaluka, Mymensingh) and Greentech (Gazipur). Group began in 1984 with Sparrow Apparels Ltd and reports 15,000+ people and US$250m+ revenue; its MD put annual exports at about US$300m in 2026.^5,11

Plant and offices

Factory at Jamirdia, Masterbari, Bhaluka (Valuka), Mymensingh; registered office at Chandona, Luxmipur, Joydebpur, Gazipur. A second, extension building is registered at the same site.^2,3,9

Established

Date of establishment 1 January 2003 on the BGMEA register; the group dates the five-factory Crown complex to 2010.^2,6

Workforce

9,250 employees on the BGMEA register (5,250 male, 4,000 female); Mapped in Bangladesh records 9,947 workers, and RSC site records total 9,709 production workers across the two buildings.^2,4,9

Machines and capacity

4,280 machines and 1,600,008 dozen per year of declared capacity on the BGMEA register; Mapped in Bangladesh records 1,269,210 pieces per month.^2,4

Crown complex scale (group figures)

Five factories, 688,267 sq ft, 55 lines and 2,700 machines; laundry 100,000 pcs/day, garment dyeing 30,000 pcs/day, dip dyeing 5,000 pcs/day and denim washing 20,000 pcs/day. Bangladesh capacity is stated as 27m pieces a year for Sparrow plus Crown.^6,7

Products

Principal exportables on the BGMEA register are woven tops, bottoms and outerwear, trousers and pants; MiB adds dress shirts, ladies' shirts and blouses, jackets, dresses and uniforms, outerwear, ladies' tops, tank tops and maternity wear. Group styles include woven casual bottoms, denim and 5-pocket pants (laser and ozone), garment-dyed tops and bottoms, delicate womenswear, ponte pants and dress^2,4,8

Certifications

GOTS (certificate issued by Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services, valid to 6 September 2026) and OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100; the BGMEA register also lists BSCI, SEDEX, GSC and SCAN. Listed in the Alliance for European Flax-Linen and Hemp's Masters of FLAX FIBRE (ex-European Flax) certified-companies directory — consistent with the linen woven men's shirts on the customs records.^2,9,10,1

Building safety

Inspected under Accord, Alliance, the RMG Sustainability Council and Nirapon. RSC remediation stands at 99% completed for the main plant (7,439 workers) and 51% for the extension building (2,270 workers), both flagged behind schedule.^4,9,13

Sanctions screening

Clear on all six watchlists screened by SourceBD — UFLPA/CBP entity list, CBP WROs, OFAC SDN, UK OFSI, EU sanctions and DOL ILAB.⁹

Export markets

Canada, Mexico, United States, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, Bahrain, India and Japan. EPB lists the company across 18 HS chapters, 17 of them woven apparel.^4,3

US trade activity

222 US ocean import shipments to 11 US buyers between 2 Jan and 17 Aug 2026 — 460 TEU, US$286,101 declared CIF value — against 10,227 shipments all time since 2015; latest arrival 17 Aug 2026.¹

Routing

Ports of loading are Colombo Harbor (172 of 222), Yangshan (44) and Qingdao (6); entry is mostly Newark, NJ (162) and Los Angeles (50). Colombo is a transhipment relay for Chattogram cargo rather than an origin — the bills themselves say "FCR relay vessel" — so the loading port is a routing artifact, not a second country of manufacture. Maersk carried 206 of the 222 bills, Expeditors 16.¹

Environment

ETP and rooftop solar on site; enrolled in Better Work/ILO, the Higg Index and ZDHC. Group sustainability programme covers BCI and organic cotton, recycled polyester, Tencel/bamboo/hemp, ZDHC dye chemistry, eFlow/laser/ozone washing and rainwater harvesting.^4,12

Joint venture

Sparrow has been in joint venture with India's Ambattur Clothing Ltd since 2007, which the group credits with product development, sourcing and 3-D fashion-tech support, and which built the Tusker plant in Jordan in 2011.^15,6

Recognition

Group awards include Best Factory for Health and Safety 2018 and the Marks & Start award 2019 from Marks & Spencer; MD Shovon Islam has received the government's CIP (Commercially Important Person) award.¹⁴

Customers

Marks & Spencer, Gap Inc. brands (Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Athleta), American Eagle Outfitters, Phoenix Retail Llc, Levi Strauss & Co., Winners Merchants International Lp, Ann Taylor, LOFT, Talbots, Kohl's, Bass Pro, Mango and J.Crew^1,5,9,14

Key people

Shovon Islam, Managing Director; Md. Shahin Alom, Manager (business contact)^2,3,11,14

Best suited for: Buyers needing volume woven bottoms and shirts — chinos, 5-pocket and garment-dyed pants, men's and women's shirts, dresses and ponte — where laser/ozone/eco-laundry finishing, organic-cotton and linen programmes, and audited GOTS, OEKO-TEX and RSC compliance matter more than low MOQs.

Researched profile of Crown Wears Pvt Limited, 4 Sept 2026, from 15 sources. Shipment figures elsewhere on this page are from US customs records, not from these sources.