Survey: 41 pct of manufacturers can't survive 12 months

Published: Aug 19, 2020 8:30 AM | Updated: Aug 19, 2020 8:51 AM

Over a third (41.1 percent) of Malaysian manufacturers believe that they would be unable to sustain their business beyond 12 months.

This was according to a survey of 549 manufacturers by the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) and the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) in July.

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