Saturday, January 26, 2013

'Groom Big' Graduates More Productive, Says Miti

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 (Bernama) -- Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that went through the Groom Big programme, a joint initiative of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and Malaysian Productivity Corporation (MPC), have seen sales go up an average 9.95 per cent and export-readiness by 14.72 per cent.

Source from (Bernama): http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsbusiness.php?id=923925
Published: January 26, 2013

"They have also reduced raw material wastage by 11.32 per cent, while adherence to international standards has jumped from 9.95 per cent to 78.34 per cent," MITI Senior Director, Entrepreneur Development Division, Datuk Abdul Ghafar Musa said.

He was speaking at a seminar on the programme, which ran from early 2011 to late 2012, and certificate presentation at MPC at Petaling Jaya near here Wednesday.

Meanwhile, MPC Senior Director Abdul Rahim Yusoff said the nine companies that completed the programme have improved their export-readiness, work process efficiency and customer loyalty while reducing product defects and raw material wastage.

-- BERNAMA 

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