Open For Business

When it comes to sustainability, it is about preserving the environment, of course, but also about preserving elements of culture, art, and design for the future. Noelle Kan, founder of batik fashion brand Kanoe, espouses her passion for batik design as well as her steps towards creating a wholly sustainable brand.

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Recently winning Asia's Most Promising SMEs at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards (ACES 2021), Complete Human Network is an enterprise mobility company that provides Enterprise Mobility-as-a-Service (EMaaS) for businesses to set-up an end-to-end mobile ecosystem. Teh Chai Peng, CEO of Complete Human Network speaks to us as she unfolds her business journey and operations.

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KERB is a marketplace/platform business connecting car park space owners with drivers. It began in 2016 in Australia as a mobile app to optimise under-utilised parking spaces in residential properties, and recently entered the Malaysian market for a new challenge. We speak to Regional Director of Kerb Southeast Asia David Albaiceta about providing solutions for a neglected segment, working with residential and commercial partners to optimise space in the Klang Valley, as well as if sharing bays will be enough to solve our parking woes.

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Next Generation Oil (Group) is a Malaysian based company that has developed a commercially viable process for the cultivation of microalgae and the extraction of carbon neutral crude algae oil, on an industrial scale. Dato Indera Mohamed Moiz, Executive Chairman and Melvin Rohan, its COO, join the conversation to discuss the future of energy generation.

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What do two café owners do, stuck in the middle of a pandemic, unable to just sit still and wait it out? Why, they open another F&B venture, of course. Their mission is very simple – to show everyone, especially non-vegans who have a very negative perception of vegan foods/cakes – that vegan goodies can be as tasty, if not tastier, than non-vegan goodies, and definitely friendlier to animals.

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One thing’s for sure, the pandemic has taught us you cannot be prepared for everything. However, you can most certainly try your best to be prepared, and what better reflects that in life than applying for insurance? The matter of insurance can get complicated, confusing, and inconvenient, so John Tan, CEO of online insurance aggregator Fatberry, explains his idea to simplify the entire process and his hopes for the future of Fatberry.

To find out more, visit Fatberry at: fatberry.com

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Research found that 50.1% of adult Malaysians are either overweight or obese. PB Health is a social enterprise aiming to improve Malaysians’ health by eating clean. They curate tasty and healthy plant-based meals, and have programmes where consumers’ health is guided and monitored by doctors and nutritionists. Co-founder of PB Health, Tim Polkowski, expounds.

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Troopers was founded in 2017; since October 2021, they have achieved an average turnover of approximately RM5 million and a total headcount of 130,000. Focusing on part-time recruitment, human resource management and event consulting, its founder Joshua Tan unfolds what it takes to be in the gig economy.

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Cultivated from the passion to save the environment, Palmy is a lifestyle brand that specialises in beautifully handcrafted paper and textile goods made from agricultural waste such as pineapple leaves, banana, stems and bamboo shoots.

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Book lovers know the feeling well - there are certain paperbacks you’ve read time and time again that are falling apart, hardbacks with the pages slowly coming away from the cover, but you can’t bring yourself to throw away the literature that gave you such joy. So instead of having to discard, what about giving your pre-loved books a new life? Philip Yong Kee Chung, founder of pre-loved bookstore BUKU, discusses his passion for pre-loved books and his unique approach in trusting his customers with a totally unmanned retail experience.

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