Foreign Hypermarkets in Malaysia..(sigh!!)
Today we have officially appointed 25 stockists throughout Malaysia to distribute BioSinar. We have been advertising in Sinar Harian and received plenty of calls. Our stockists have been receiving plenty of calls too and we expect them to increase in the next few weeks. We will make sure BioSinar is avaiable in every part of Malaysia within the next 6 months.
You may ask, why have we chosen this route? Despite being the market for the last 2 years, why have you not witnessed a proliferation of our product? It is a consumer product so it must be on every shelf, right? WRONG!!!!
Yes we have attempted to have on as many retail shelves, and yes you may see our products at some Hypermarkets but sadly, our sales in these Hypermarkets have been dismally low. Are we the only ones facing it? Apparently not. In a meeting with the Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, Dato’ Ismail Sabri, it was revealed that only 6% of their products are from Malaysian SMEs. This is after the fact that the Ministry has made it a condition for foreign hypermarket to have 30% SME products as part of their license condition, from AS FAR BACK AS 2005. Here’s the fact - these hypermarkets do not care whatsoever about helping the local SMEs. They just want to bleed every sen offrom the Malaysian consumer and dump us their lousy house brand products. I bought spaghetti from Tesco and it was completely inedible! I hope somebody from Tesco is reading this!
So the Hypermarkets say our products do not have good packaging, quality and bla bla bla..if that is the case, why is BioSinar always sold out among our Dealers and Stockists? Why do we continue to be in existence till today? Why do the other SMEs continue to sell their products? I say if these foreign hypermarkets start to monkey around with Malaysia, GET OUT! WE DON’T NEED YOU! WE DON’T NEED YOUR HOUSEBRAND PRODUCTS! You come to Malaysia in the guise of promoting everyday low prices but you end up flooding our market with your unwanted products back in your home country! And in the process, YOU KILL THE VERY SOUL OF THE MALAYSIAN ENTREPRENEUR!
Do not for one second think that you will get away with it. And the Malaysians in cohort with them, watch out. We, the concerned Malaysian consumers and producers will act. Just you see..
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:32 am
Assalamualaikum wrh. wbt,
Saya tersangatlah setuju dengan apa yang En. Jeoffrey perkatakan. Memang sepatutnya kita sebagai rakyat Malaysia mengajar Hypermarket luar negara yang bertapak di Malaysia supaya hormat akan usahawan-usahawan Malaysia (especially usahawan Melayu Muslim).
So, setiap orang dari kita tidak kira samada usahawan ataupun pengguna hendaklah sama-sama berganding bahu bagi melakukan sesuatu agar mereka-mereka yang kurang ajar ni sedar betapa pentingnya mereka menghormati usahawan dan juga pengguna Malaysia.
Sementara kita sebagai pengguna pula hendaklah menyokong produk buatan Malaysia bukan sahaja dari segi barangan pengguna (dari makanan, pakaian dan apa sahaja yang berkaitan dengan kegunaan harian) tetapi juga dari segi perkhidmatan kewangan Islam termasuklah pinjaman, pelaburan dan takaful.
Hidup usahawan Melayu Muslim!!!
Salam ukhwah,
Nor’izah Adam
December 13th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
assalam.. kenapa seolah olah kerajaan kita terlalu memberi ruang kepada jenama asing yang sudah terlampau lama di pasaran, tidak salah untuk bersaing tetapi monopoli asing sudah terlampau ketara. usahawan yang berjiwa malaysia hendaklah di beri nafas baru,di beri ruang dan peluang di seluruh tanah malaysia tercinta.. tanniah kepada syarikat derubio diatas komitmen anda sebagai pembuka jalan untuk meneracu pasaran Malaysia.
February 14th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
salam sejahtera kepada usahawan derubio? semoga anda succes