MOTION started out as solely an events company in 2004 and eventually ventured out to become a more holistic creative solutions agency.
PRECIOUS Entertainment has been around for almost five years now and it is a talent and events management company which owns a performance training school, Kids Performing. The Academy is at the heart of the whole organization and all the other spokes of the wheel complement this key facet of our business. The other spokes are our artiste management arm, events management arm and also our Lifestyle component which is Popstars City which houses a cafe and merchandizing store. I own Precious together with Kuo Po, the Artistic Director.
MAXIAS was previously The Active Idea Company, which was founded on the vision to democratise internet technologies. Today, our vision has refocused to be a leading integrated marketing agency in Asia, growing from web development to being a fully integrated agency.
FAMILY-OWNED business, the Jay Gee Melwani Group, sticks together during tough times. JayGee is a privately held group of companies that represents and markets top international retail labels like Adidas Kids, Aigner, ALDO, Dockers, Liz Claiborne, Levi's and Mexx.
INSIGHT InterAsia Pte Ltd started as a market consultancy to small high-tech companies that want to do business in Asia. I started it in 2006 while living in Singapore. Although I am a US citizen, I've spent my entire career in technical sales and marketing based in Asia. I liked Singapore very much and when I had the opportunity to start my own company I based it in Singapore so that I could live here.
BACK in 1993, after having completed my two-year expat posting with a US-based employer, I decided the time was right to settle in Asia and start my own company. Asia-Pacific Connections offers a variety of business development and integrated marketing services to technology vendors.
I started PR Communications in 1993 with my wife Fatoma Alladin, and we've lived through quite a few storms now.
NANYANG Optical goes back quite a way: It was started in the 1950s by my father as a lens grinding company. I would help out after school by collecting prescriptions from the opticians. In the early 1960s, Singapore was a bustling and growing city. The time spent at the optical shops waiting for opticians to hand him the prescriptions showed that business was good, so we went down the retail route.
YES, I just left my job as Assistant Vice President of iHub Media in the middle of a recession to start my own business!
Back in 2002, right after the dotcom crash of 2001, muvee - recognised globally as as the pioneer and leader in automatic video editing - was born.
What muvee does is turn the special moments in your casual home videos and photos into emotionally engaging videos that are called "muvees".
BACK in 1989, when the economy had recovered from the mid-80s recession, we started our company as an air-conditoning services company as a sole proprietorship. Along with air-con servicing, we also provided labour for the installation of air-con systems for contractors.
The first crisis we ever faced, therefore, was the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 90s.
JIAN Huang was incorporated in June 1996 and our first project started in July 1997. Two months later, the Asian financial crisis struck.
The timing couldn't have been worst, starting-up as a labour sub-contractor specialising in reinforcement concrete works. Nevertheless, we survived and have become a main contractor for logistics and industrial buildings.
HOME-FIX was started by my brother, Low Cheong Yew and myself in 1993. With 16 years in the market, we've gone through the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, then Sars later in 2003. Because we serve the local domestic market, we haven't been adversely affected by the past downturns or this current recession - yet.
OUR business started in December 1998, right smack in the midst of the Asian Financial Crisis, probably the worst crisis the South-east Asia ever experienced. So the biggest challenged we faced was low business confidence and weak consumer spending due to the stock and property market crashes.
