Mail: i-koyama@tokaigroup.co.jp

Completion date (month/year): November 2021

The primary objective of the Study is to do study works relating to the scope as described below in order to explore the possibility and feasibility for new entrants in the LPG market of Bangladesh and to grasp the overview of the market.

1. Industry Structure:

• LPG market trend, LPG source, distribution / industrial structure (wholesale/ retail), and main players (business structure, challenges, strangeness, excluding financial information) survey

• Consumer survey in Dhaka and Chittagong area (restaurant, cake shop, car (fuel conversion from gasoline to LPG), householder etc.)

• Compare price with octane or fuel or CNG etc.

• Government energy policy (especially regarding LPG)

• Trend/Demand on the auto gas including householder, commercial and industry. (How to use it in householder and distribution channel like as case study.)

2. Extraction of foreign capital regulations, related laws and regulations, and risks

• Regulations on foreign investment in LPG business and prospective survey on

• future deregulation.

• Investigation of LPG-related laws and regulations

• Consideration of risks such as country, politics, diplomacy, etc.

• Survey of candidate companies (making a long list) ; the list should include the following

• data of all the enterprises holding legal licenses to conduct LPG business (excluding small ones engaging in the retail business) as well as big companies who have no such licenses but are interested in entering into LPG business:

• Company name (head office location, facility location, market area, number of employees)

• Business type (import only, bottling, distribution etc.)

• Capital form (listed, unlisted, major shareholders)