Press and Awards, Without the Fluff
The short answer: The verified list: Stanford Seed Spark in 2022, a TEDx talk at University of Dhaka in 2025, bti Stellar Women in 2023, and a peer-reviewed case study published by Emerald. That is what we can point to, so that is what is on this page.
Brand pages in this category tend to list everything that ever happened, with numbers that cannot be checked. We would rather have a short page that is true. If something is not here, it is because we could not verify it.
The list
| Year | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Stanford Seed Spark | Stanford Graduate School of Business programme |
| 2023 | bti Stellar Women | Recognition programme, Dhaka |
| 2025 | TEDx talk | TEDx University of Dhaka |
| Published | Peer-reviewed case study | Emerald |
Press coverage
SHAPE has been covered by The Daily Star and by Dhaka Tribune, among others. Where coverage names SHAPE directly and we can link it, we do.
We are deliberately not listing mentions we cannot produce a link for, and we are not describing a passing reference as a feature.
What is deliberately not on this page
A star rating. We have carried a rating on the site in the past that was not verified, and we have been removing it rather than leaving it up. If we publish a rating in future it will be one we can show the working for.
A fittings count. We have used a figure for private fittings in the past that we could not stand behind, and it has been retired. It is not coming back in another form.
Anything expressed as “one of the leading” or “the first in Bangladesh”. Those are claims rather than facts, and this page is for facts.
The numbers we do stand behind
More than 200,000 women have found their fit with SHAPE. More than 51,000 women are in Girl Talk, our community. We have seven stores in Dhaka, and we were founded in 2019.
Those four we will put in writing anywhere, because we can show where each comes from.
Questions women ask us
Why is the list so short?
Because it is only the part we can verify. A longer list would involve claims we cannot support.
Where can I read the case study?
It is published by Emerald. Message us and we will point you to it.
Do you have a star rating?
Not a verified one, so we do not publish one. We ask for honest reviews on Google instead.
How many stores do you have?
Seven in Dhaka: Gulshan 1, Dhanmondi, Elephant Road, Bailey Road, Banani, Bashundhara City and Wari.
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