Overall optimism among business leaders in Malaysia has improved. 

New findings from Grant Thornton’s quarterly business survey of 2,500 businesses in 36 economies, the International Business Report (IBR), reveals that the optimism level in Malaysia has risen to 6%, a major improvement compared to a year ago (-36%). 

MSIG Insurance (Malaysia) Bhd (MSIG Malaysia) has launched two new fire insurance products – Retail SafeGuard and Business SafeGuard – which aim to provide business owners with new options when it comes to protecting their businesses from emerging threats such as cyber-crime, social media risks and even terrorism and sabotage.

Retail SafeGuard Insurance is a comprehensive protection targeted at small businesses such as retailers, mini-marts, florists, restaurants, cinemas and others.  It gives business owners the ability to select a desired plan that caters to their business needs at an affordable premium. 

Jaya Grocer, Malaysia’s family-run lifestyle fresh market, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with 22 outlets and with plans for an aggressive expansion of five more outlets this year.

In fact, it ended 2017 with 21 outlets and opened its 22nd in Johore Bahru last week. By year-end, it plans to have 27 supermarkets across the peninsula.

Invest Malaysia 2018, co-organised by Bursa Malaysia and Maybank, held earlier this week attracted over 2,000 delegates, including more than 1000 local and regional fund managers from Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, USA, and the UK with Assets Under Management totalling USD18.3 trillion.