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Latest Update : Nov.19, 2010

Back to Financial Results (FY3/2011)

Investor Meeting Presentation for 2Q FY 3/2011 held on November 2, 2010

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As shown in the slide, Cambodia is located between Thailand and Vietnam and has a population of 13.4 million. One of the merits of expanding into Cambodia is that it will enable us to more easily work with our excellent plants in Thailand. Now that we have about 32,000 employees in Thailand and about 16,000 thousand employees in China, we must consider diversifying risk.
Faced with the need to build up our workforce, we decided to expand into Thailand after selecting it out of a number of possible locations to base our production operations. Ten years later we expanded into China with an eye to making further inroads into the Chinese market. Over a decade has passed since then and we now operate throughout Asia partially as a result of M&As. One of the primary reasons for choosing to build in Cambodia is that we decided to strategically reorganize manufacturing operations for each product after carefully analyzing their separate characteristics.
There are also drawbacks to expanding into Cambodia, such as unstable power supply, high utility costs due to its underdeveloped infrastructure, as well as a low literacy rate. The component industry is still underdeveloped in Cambodia. In truth there are a lot of unknowns that make it difficult to plan out our operations in Cambodia. We've been in similar situations before however, where we have successfully opened a plant in Singapore more than 30 years ago, another in Thailand after that, followed by yet another in China. Our predecessors who successfully expanded our operations over the years have handed down a wealth of know-how that we can now leverage in Cambodia.

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