Invest Malaysia - The World Market Access Hub

The World Market Access Hub - The Go To Market Hub

With a robust ICT industry and one of the world's top ranked Shared Services Outsourcing (SS0) centers, Malaysia is one of the best locations in the world for investment, especially in the ICT industry.

Top MNCs, which include ACS, BMW, DHL, HSBC, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Shell, Unisys and many others, have set up their bases of regional and global operations here. Malaysia offers high quality cosmopolitan living at affordable cost. Kuala Lumpur, also generally referred to as KL, is a modern, bustling, cosmopolitan capital city. Major business buildings and business centers can be found in KL city as well as satellite cities.

With lowest wage inflation, highest staff retention rates, a well-educated and multilingual workforce, world-class infrastructures, conducive business environments, Malaysia’s appeals for foreign investment is no hard to figure out.

Malaysia is one of the most cost-effective and congenial places to do business. The cost for high-value work activities in the country has always been known as the most competitive in the world.

Because of its location, as well as its good relations with other countries in the region, Malaysia is a popular trading partner with most countries. Malaysia is also an active participant in various trade groupings, providing investors with some of the most favorable incentives to penetrate the world's fastest growing consumer markets of ASEAN, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

Association of South-East Asian Nation (ASEAN)

A social economic grouping that has a 500 million consumer base. Malaysia is signatory to the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA), which provides for the lowering of intra-regional tariffs. The China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement signed in 2002 will create the world's biggest trading bloc with a combined market of nearly two billion consumers. A survey carried out by a consortium of media institutes on ASEAN attitudes towards member nations named Malaysia as the most admired ASEAN member. Malaysia was admired not for only its impressive developments but more for its racial harmony and political stability.

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Malaysia is actively involved in APEC's mission of achieving free and open trade investment. Asia is Malaysia's biggest trading partner, accounting for almost two thirds (63.6%) or USD93.4 billion of the country's trade in 2003.

Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC)

Malaysia is the Chairman of the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC), an inter-governmental grouping of 57 member states, covering the continent of Asia, Africa and Europe with a total population of 1.3 billion, representing 21% of the global population. Malaysia has been lauded as a modern, moderate and progressive Muslim nation. In 2003, Malaysia was named the OIC's strategic hub for the Asia Pacific region. Malaysia's trade with the OIC countries in 2004 accounted for 7.0% of its global trade.

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