Najib Visits Bakery in Manila Opened by 4 young entrepreneurs who recovered their RM1 million investment in 4 months

Najib visits Malaysian-owned bakery in Manila

BY MERGAWATI ZULFAKAR

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Najib (third from left) and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan (third from right) at the Naah!im bakery in Manila.

 

MANILA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak took time off from his busy schedule here for the Asean Summit to visit a bakery set up by four young Malaysians.

"Supporting 4 young entrepreneurial Malaysians who have opened a very successful bakery in Metro Manila," he tweeted.

The bakery, Naah!im, opened only four months ago but its owners have already recovered their investment of RM1mil.

The four partners, Ungku Raad Azeraai, Ahmad Ferman Tjandra Ahmad, Mohd Kurniawan Naim Moktar and Mohd Farez Mohd Yusof decided to venture into the Philippines because of its large local population.

"We also wanted to take advantage of the Muslim population here, which makes up 5% of the Philippines' 100 million people," Ungku Raad said.

The owners, who are all below 40, are now looking to expand their business by opening more kiosks and potentially supplying pastries to local airlines.

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