Jamal A. Ainul
Chairman, Schlumberger Asia
"We are projecting stronger revenue growth from Asia following our investments in Malaysia.
"Our manufacturing plant in Penang and regional financial hub in KL will play a key role in supporting our clients in Malaysia, Asia and the Middle East, and in the expansion of our business in these key markets.
"Malaysia is also ideal for our financial hub as it offers highly qualified financial professionals with excellent customer service attitudes. The country is open to attracting knowledge-based activities and offers an excellent business environment, with a Government committed to the development of education and infrastructure."
Craig Tucker
Director, IBM Global Delivery Center, Cyberjaya (Malaysia)
“This centre is critical to IBM’s ability to offer our clients support at any level local, regional and global to provide the flexibility, scalability and security our clients expect.
"We selected Malaysia for our newest facility based on the strong public-private partnership with the country and Cyberjaya, its competitive business model, and the talent and skills that the Malaysian people have to offer.
“The global delivery centres are a major component of IBM’s strategy to be a globally integrated enterprise, which allows us to perform work anywhere in the world where we have the right skills and the right environment for business to drive profitable growth. Our new center in Cyberjaya is now a core component of that global network. We believe it will be a model for the delivery of technology services and just as importantly, it will be role model for a public/private partnership that creates new opportunities for Malaysians.”
Mr Hiroyuki Mogi
Chairman of Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems Asia
“T&D technology can be highly value–added and currently manufacturing of complex high voltage (HV) T&D equipment is mostly done in Europe and Japan.
“Toshiba Corporation has selected Malaysia as a global supply chain hub, regional full turnkey (FTK) center and an R&D center for its T&D equipment due to the availability of excellent technical resources and its strategic location to address the fast growing ASEAN market for these products.
“Malaysia is one of the established T&D markets in the ASEAN region, and established reputation of Malaysian-made products supports the manufacturing requirements in the industry.”
John McCabe
Senior Vice-President, Worldwide Operations, PayPal
"We chose Malaysia as its multi-lingual and skilled workforce is ideal for our regional and global support services.
"Our regional center in Kuala Lumpur offers service and support for customers across Southeast Asia. It also provides operational support for our global payment service.
"This demonstrates our commitment to offer a safer, more secure online payment platform to millions of customers in the region, especially in Southeast Asia."
Sanjeev Nanavati
CEO, Citibank Berhad
"Citibank remains committed to our customers and will continue with our investments to grow our business in Malaysia.
"Throughout our 50 over years in Malaysia and as one of the leading foreign banks in Malaysia, Citibank has been an active contributor and leading player in the dynamic growth of the local banking industry.
"There are significant business opportunities in Malaysia as we look forward to continuing to invest in Malaysia as the economy transforms under the Economic Transformation Programme."
Akhil Chandra
Vice President & General Manager
GSK Consumer Healthcare Asia, GlaxoSmithKline
"We have been investing in Malaysia for over 50 years as the country possesses a conducive business environment especially good infrastructure, investor friendly policies and an educated workforce.
"Over the years, we have relocated our global and regional businesses to Malaysia.
"Our Ulu Kelang factory is one of our 24 global consumer healthcare manufacturing sites globally, producing consumer healthcare over-the-counter (OTC) products for over 13 markets in Asia Pacific. Operating since 1975, with Panadol and ENO as main products, the site currently employs more than 200 employees.
"We have positioned Malaysia as a centre for our global IT operations with the establishment of GSK's Global IT Centre Kuala Lumpur (GITC) in 2008. Being the first of its kind outside of Europe and serving all 85 countries where GSK has its presence, GITC undertakes to remotely support IT infrastructure and applications across GSK IT service landscape."
GSK Malaysia employs more than 900 employees and has an annual sales turnover of over USD269 million.
Sung-hwan Do
Chief Executive Officer, Tesco Malaysia
"We are proud of the investment we have made in Malaysia over the last 10 years and of the business we have grown in this period.
"It is also encouraging to see that consumers are now able enjoy lower prices and better products made available through modern hypermarkets.
"There are 3 reasons why we are bullish about Malaysia. One: political stability and great leadership. Two: strong and stable growth economy. Three: Malaysia’s is an emerging Asian market.
"All these three factors provide a positive and healthy outlook for hypermarts.
"In addition, Malaysia is an ideal location to expand our line of halal food offerings as the country aims to be the global halal hub. We export Malaysian-made halal products to China and UK. We are planning to offer more products to meet the growing demand in key markets and increase our global market share in halal offerings."
UK retailer Tesco has 43 stores in Peninsular Malaysia and employs 14,500 staff.