Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Matrade On Track To Produce 200 New Women Exporters By 2015

Source from (Bernama): http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsbusiness.php?id=699331

Published: October 03, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 (Bernama) -- The Malaysia External Trade Development Corp (Matrade) is on track to produce 200 new women exporters via the Women Exporters Development Programme (WEDP) by 2015.

Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said the programme has to date created 80 women entrepreneurs who were ready to export their goods and services.

"We will produce 24 export-driven women entrepreneurs a year and we aim to achieve our target by 2015," he told reporters after launching the "Malaysia Women in Export Directory" here Wednesday.

Mukhriz said about 19.7 per cent of the Malaysian small and medium enterprises were owned by women.

"The majority of these women-owned enterprises are in the services sector amounting to as much as 91.7 per cent of their overall participation as SMEs," he said.

-- BERNAMA

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