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Calli ice cream carries one-third the calories found in a regular pint, contains less than half the sugar, more than four times the protein and less than one-tenth the fat, but still tastes as sinful as full-fat ice cream. What is this sorcery? We speak to the Calli Cartel about their rich and creamy offering that will change the way we crave ice cream.

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If you are a business traveller who travels to different countries frequently, you would know that there are so many things to keep track of, such as choosing your airline, hotel, location for business meetings with clients and many more. Prashant Kirtane, CEO and co-founder of Travelstop, talks about his app specially for business travellers to simplify and make your business travel trips more convenient.

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Values, when translated into workplace behaviours, can help to create an organisational culture that presents a sound basis for branding. And branding should reflect the corporate culture, which in turn should positively impact both internal and external stakeholders and connect with them at both a functional and emotional level. On a personal level, we should all be living lives that are aligned with our individual value systems. If we are in conflict with our inner values, it can cause dissonance within us, a sense of unease, which in the long term will lead to dissatisfaction, relationship issues and a host of other issues. It’s the last Monday of the month and as usual, Human Equation founder Sheila Singam sheds some insight on values as a driver for branding, both personal and corporate, through some case studies.

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GRRRL isn’t just a clothing line; it’s a mission of empowerment, personified. By eliminating conventional size charts and encouraging models of all body types and ethnicities on its platform, GRRRL is quickly becoming a disruptor in the industry, that’s on its way to becoming a billion dollar company!

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As we gear up for our annual retail conference, Enterprise ROCKS 2019, we take a look at the highlights from last year. In the first part of this three-part recap, Anabelle Co-Martinent, Sheikh Manzoor Ghani, and Ganesh Kumar Bangah discuss data analytics - should your approach be qualitative, quantitative or both?

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When we enter the workforce, we are exposed to a whole host of issues and conflicts, and some of them crop up no matter where you work or what position you're in. So how do we address these problems? Shankar Santhiram talks to us all about solving common workplace woes.

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Are you someone who is thinking of investing, but doesn’t have the first clue about it? Or do you find that most investment schemes have a high capital minimum requirement which is quite difficult to reach? Bhavan Sarpal won Maybank Go Ahead Challenge 2018 with his idea for a micro-investment initiative called “Mybank Spare”, which saves your spare change and starts you on your investment journey.

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The best way to run an online travel magazine is to have content created by people from all around the world. We speak to Kris Naudts, founder of Culture Trip, about the idea behind curating travel articles from a global writers’ base, the challenges of keeping content fresh, and quality-control in a landscape that’s cracking down on clickbait.

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The tuition business has grown into a multi-million ringgit industry here in Malaysia. But is tuition really necessary? And what should we expect from these supplementary education centres moving forward? We speak to Steven Shorthose, founder of one-stop education centre, INtuition, about going beyond helping students secure a high-test score.

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The traditional 9-5 cubicle-based office space is slowly beginning to decay in favour of remote and mobile working and the advent of open-office co-working models. So with co-working spaces popping up all over Malaysia, how do you set yourself apart? Benjamin Teo, CEO of Paramount Property Development & Director of Co-labs Coworking, talks all about the shift from fixed offices to co-working and Co-labs’ USPs and expansion plans.

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