Part of your job as a CEO, Tan Sri etc, is to protect the market cap (value) of your company.
The default mode of most Chinese businessmen is to a) Copy what others are doing or b) blindly expand supply to the sky (thereby crashing the price).
they can't seem to think outside the box, for example, doing some vertical integration for example a) buy a dry bulk ship to ship your gloves b) invest in NBL manufacturing to reduce input costs c) pay your foreign workers well, improve working conditions (with bonuses) to keep the NGO's away, at bay d) don't expand, focus on a + b + c. Why don't expand, because you are selling/dealing in a fungible good like gloves. any tom,dick and harry (greedy Chinese businessmen) can make gloves!
but the issue is the blind greediness of Chinese businessmen. It is a double-edged sword. It can drive ambition, but can leave you exposed in other areas.
But not only is this tycoon greedy, he is extremely selfish. look how Top GLove mistreated its workers with forced labour issues. Did the company pay worker bonus during the good times? No!
Extremely Greedy. And Selfish. Classic case. Want to expand supply, pay dirt cheap low wages so people suffer.
when the company pay higher than market value does it means the company good? for example us companies paying higher than market but whenever there is any down turn, they are the first to retrench workers. whenever their workers getting older and salary high, they gonna replace them with younger and cheaper workers. how u going to judge this senario?
Since China could build 1,000 bed hospitals in 10 days China set up New glove factories all over China and started Churning out Billions and Trillions gloves non stop 24 hours by robots leading to Glut and price war
now Malaysia sell gloves
Usd24 for 1000
China under cut
Usd22 for 1,000
plus USA just reduced tarif for China glove import but banned Malaysia gloves
Easier said than done. Not easy for chinese companies to fully automate gloves productions. Their costs could be higher due to more expensive labour, high energy costs and supply chain disruption etc.. Zero Covid strategy is going to hurt them a lot. Quality is another issue for chinese made gloves. Thats why they are all making losses. More and deeper losses if they continue the same path.
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Posted by arv18 > 2022-07-13 20:22 | Report Abuse
Pride comes before a fall. The biggest loss by a Malaysian Chinese business family in Malaysian history. Devastating.