Tag: Malaysia
Top 100 Companies of the Muslim World: 2010 DS100 Ranking
See the full DS100™ list. The 2010 DS100 ranking, which is based on companies’ fiscal year ended on or before June 2010, fully captures the impact of the 2008/2009 global financial crisis.
2010 DS100 Summary: Companies Absorb Financial Crisis Shock
The 7th Annual DS100 continues to benchmark the corporate environment of the 57 OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) member countries.
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NESTLÉ Sets Halal Food Best-Practices [Infographic]
“Good for Everyone” Food and food services is the largest segment uniquely impacted by Muslim consumer lifestyle. It’s no surprise then that the largest global food manufacturer, Nestlé, has taken the lead in addressing the global Halal food needs. Today 20% or 85 Nestlé factories world-wide are Halal-certified with a wide range of Halal products [...]
Missing Link in Islamic Finance Hubs: Islamic Venture Capital
The Islamic world profiled modalities of capitalism in 8th/9th century, but today’s Muslim country Islamic finance hubs are missing two vital aspects: addressing ‘have nots’ (micro-finance), and deploying the funds of ‘haves’ into Islamic VC funds. My focus in this article is on the latter–interplay between risk capital and innovative ideas for strategic localised benefit. [...]
Islamic Education takes the Multimedia Highway
Ever felt that traditional Islamic education may be too rigid for the likes of the young today? Three entrepreneurial-minded founders from Malaysia put their heads together and agreed. Transforming the stereotypical teacher-student relationship, Syahrul Zaman Shahril, Mohammed Salleh Fadzil and Zul-Atfi Mustafa decided to form their own educational hub relating to Islamic teaching. Considering the [...]
Unique IT Services in Islamic Finance and Key Players
In the last 25 year, Islamic banking practice has progressed tremendously. The past two and a half decades, serious research done, has established that Islamic banking is a viable and efficient way of financial intermediation. Several Islamic banks have been established during this period under mixed, social and economic settings. Recently, many conventional banks, including [...]
Consumer Brands of the Top 100 Companies in the Muslim World (2007)
This report showcases a selection of the most prominent consumer facing brands of the 2007 Top 100 Companies in the Muslim World. (Please view the latest 2010 report here) A variety of prominent global brand value rankings have repeatedly shown the tremendous sustainable income brands deliver. For example, InterBrand, which evaluates brands much like analysts [...]
’1901 Hotdog’ CEO Tengku Rozidar on Franchising
Tengku Rozidar Tengku Zainal Abidin, affectionately known as the “Hotdog Lady,” opened the first pushcart outlet offering Malaysian hotdogs (with an America image) to consumers who had never been to the States. Years later, 1901 Hotdogs was awarded “Most Promising Franchisor of the Year for 2000/2001″ by the Malaysian Franchise Association and “Consumer Superbrands” status [...]
Harvard Islamic Finance Forum: An Outsider’s View on Islamic Finance
Islamic finance is, in the words of many of its practitioners and observers, one of the more exciting things happening to the Muslim World today. Many view it as a test case – a potential experimental ground – for how Islam’s Divine Law – the Shariah – is likely to mingle with or adapt to [...]
