CHAIRMAN MESSAGE

I begin my extending a warm and cordial welcome to all our valued stakeholders of Dhaka Fisheries Limited (DFL) and continue to take pride in your association with us. As chairman of the Board, I feel immensely honored and privileged in taking this opportunity to represent the company. Like the past, we will stay on a path that takes into cognizance the best interest of our stakeholders, while safeguarding the long term value creation platform for our shareholders. On behalf of the Board, I convey my heart-felt gratitude to all our respected shareholders for the continued support towards the Company over the past years. Our company will be maintaining a consistent growth towards achieving our long term goals and in operating diverse fresh water fish firms. The company has taken a new lease project at Nalitabari, Sherpur having covered land and water area of 4,445 decimal and shall operate the fisheries project from January, 2023. I hope the company can generate enough revenue to pay dividend to the shareholders. The company is also planning to undertake diversified business to run the company more profitably.  I am confident that the key enables of our strategy, together with our ongoing investment and restructuring of functional areas will support the continued growth of DFL in the years ahead. We owe our shareholders and strive for protection of their capital as well as ensure highest return and growth of their assets. Our goal is to remain at the cutting edge technology of the industry so that we can continue to create value for our shareholders, the community where we do business and the economy at large. Dhaka Fisheries Limited will be contributing significantly towards the overall economic growth of our beloved country through paying fair share of taxes, generating employment, participating in community services, reducing carbon emissions and much more. Despite the continued challenges from the external environment, we navigated the business with the accountability and responsibility that is expected of us. The end result was that we maintained our spot as one of the most valuable listed entities on the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchange. We continued to steer our enterprise in the direction of responsible value creation, with a very healthy profit growth. This result was achieved due to the proactive guidance from our Board, dedication of our Management Committee members and the hard work of our diversified talent base in our company. We are committed to offering a workplace where employees can achieve their full potential and feel proud to be part of DFL. Investing in our people, ensuring their skills evolve with the needs of our business, acting on the value of diversity and inclusion –we view all of this as key to future growth. I am satisfied to observe already many indicators and measure that DFL will grow to be an employer of choice. I would like to restate that our Board maintains its effective role in policy formulation and discharging best possible Corporate Governance. The Board has always remained focus on maximizing sponsors and shareholders through formulating polices and guidelines towards ensuring sustainable profitability, minimizing risks and establishing good governance in all spheres of company’s operation. And the management of the company highly prioritizes Corporate Governance in compliance with Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), regulations and to further strength our Corporate Governance system.  I would like to extent our gratitude to Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), National Board of Revenue (NRB), Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firm (RJSC), Dhaka Stock Exchange Limited (DSE), Chittagong Stock Exchange Limited (CSE), other regulatory bodies and everyone in the DFL family for their valuable guidance, support and cooperation. I would like to express my sincerest appreciation to my fellow Board Members for their generous assistance, advice and leadership. The management team and all level of our devoted employees who worked very hard to take the company forward and accordingly brought tremendous success during this period. In fine, I solicit almighty Allah’s blessing and all your support to continue to drive further progress and explore new business avenue. I personally believe that our new plan would lead your company to a sustainable growth and help in contributing towards building a stronger Bangladesh in Shaa-Allah.