What are your plans for Danone Dumex Malaysia?
I think certainly our market hasn’t suffered as much as the other markets. With growth of 13%, that’s well above the GDP growth we’re seeing in other markets. Though I would say, looking at it, we had a faster growth in the first half and much slower growth in the second half [Danone had a 43.4% market share in the affordable growing-up milk segment for year-to-date September 2009]. I think the growth would not be as fast for 1H2010 as we saw in 2009. So we’re getting ready for that — how do we make sure we continue growing at the same pace through productivity and really getting back to understanding what our consumers want. This article appeared in Manager@Work, the monthly management pullout of The Edge Malaysia, Issue 778, Oct 26 – Nov 1,2009.
