Sido Muncul (SIDO): Raw Material Price Increase Squeeze Margin
A fact-finding with a friend in East Java revealed that ginger, a key ingredient for SIDO's flagship product - TOLAK ANGIN - has seen a sharp...
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CrossASEAN Strategy - Life After Gojek and the Land of Digital Banking
The fact that Gojek (1379371D IJ) has managed to secure US$1.2bn in new funding over the past week in this apocalyptic environment says something...
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Erajaya Swasembada (ERAA IJ) - A Badly Timed Recovery
A recent meeting in Jakarta with Erajaya Swasembada (ERAA IJ) management revealed a company still relatively optimistic about the outlook for 2020,...
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XL Axiata (EXCL IJ) - It's All About the Data
A meeting with XL Axiata (EXCL IJ) management in Jakarta this week confirmed that competition from smaller players such as Smartfren Telecom (FREN...
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The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Virus Korona, Bank Mandiri, and DBS
This past week's offering of Insights across ASEAN@Smartkarma is filled with another eclectic mix of differentiated, substantive and actionable...
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