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Finding Resilience Through Diversification

Finding Resilience Through Diversification

For Leon Lee, success is not a straight road. Instead, it comes with many turnoffs, extending the adventure and increasing possibilities.  Come November 2022, Lee’s real-estate consultancy company, Zeon Properties Group, will be celebrating its 10th…

Staying Power: Business longevity after the Covid crisis

Staying Power: Business longevity after the Covid crisis

Keeping a business going amidst change is an expected challenge for any company. But the past two years of the Covid-19 outbreak have greatly raised the odds against business resilience. With strong vaccination rates and…

Set-backs are only skin-deep: The beauty industry bounces back and intersects with wellness

Set-backs are only skin-deep: The beauty industry bounces back and intersects with wellness

Beauty may not last forever, but its industry seems resilient in the face of economic shockwaves. According to McKinsey, during the global 2008 financial crisis, spending in the beauty market only dipped slightly and recovered…

The HAUS of Halal: Digital marketing and cosmetics make chemistry

The HAUS of Halal: Digital marketing and cosmetics make chemistry

Cruelty-free. Vegan-based. Halal. These words will get many cosmetics consumers to open their wallets these days amidst the growingly affluent Muslim population and increasing consumer social awareness. HAUS Cosmetics checks all the boxes. With an…

From naivety to nailing it: POSH Nail Spa aims to take the nail industry to new heights

From naivety to nailing it: POSH Nail Spa aims to take the nail industry to new heights

Sereen Eng takes on a challenge like how she would prepare to wash a customer’s feet in her nail salon – she rolls up her sleeves and rises to the occasion.  The founder of POSH…

Healing with Passion

Healing with Passion

A personal quest that turns into a huge opportunity Once a niche trend championed by a few, the clean beauty and skincare movement has gone mainstream. Sustainable, natural and organic – all reflect a trend…

Fit and famous: Nana Al Haleq lifts the weight of her brand

Fit and famous: Nana Al Haleq lifts the weight of her brand

Nana Al Haleq had not done push-ups for almost three years due to a shoulder and elbow injury. When her trainer included it in her programme, she was cautious but gamed to try it. To…

Tackling the ugly side of the aesthetics business: How Beauty & Co builds integrity and impact

Tackling the ugly side of the aesthetics business: How Beauty & Co builds integrity and impact

Starting her own body aesthetic company, Bizzy Body, at the age of 25. Expanding the business to 30 outlets within five years. Establishing Malaysia’s first beauty co-working space, Beauty & Co, in The Gardens, Mid…

Not A Stretch: How MurFest found success uniting alternative therapies amidst scepticism

Not A Stretch: How MurFest found success uniting alternative therapies amidst scepticism

Some swear by it, others swear at it – alternative treatments and therapies tend to spark intense debate between supporters and detractors. Also known as traditional or complementary treatments, it covers practices not within mainstream…

Untangling Challenges: How Hairstory International is flipping the script for its industry

Untangling Challenges: How Hairstory International is flipping the script for its industry

Derick Ooi, the founder of Hairstory International, has a hair story. As a teenager, he often felt a pang whenever he looked in the mirror. Heng Ee High School in Penang – where he studied…