• LG Electronics Eager to Make Indonesia its Television Production Base

    LG Electronics Indonesia, the local unit of South Korea-based electronics company LG Electronics, will produce three new television products in its factory in Cibitung (West Java): the LG OLED TV 4k, the LG Super UHD TV 4k, and the LG Smart TV (with the WebOS 3.0 operating system). Besides these new products, LG Electronics also plans to make its Indonesian factories a production hub for OLED TVs and Ultra HD TVs for the Southeast Asian and Australian markets. LG Electronics operates two factories in Indonesia.

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  • Analysis Indonesian Companies: Indofood Sukses Makmur

    Indofood Sukses Makmur, Indonesia's leading company in the food processing sector offering a wide variety of food solutions for consumers, is expected to post significantly higher net profit and net sales in the foreseeable future on lower prices of its raw materials, the stable rupiah exchange rate, and the rising price of crude palm oil (CPO). Indofood Sukses Makmur is engaged in five complementary business segments: (1) consumer branded products, (2) flour milling, (3) agribusiness, (4) distribution, and (5) the cultivation and processing of vegetables.

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  • Car, Motorcycle & Cement Sales: Assessing Indonesia's Purchasing Power

    To assess Indonesia's purchasing power and consumer confidence it is always useful to take a look at car and motorcycle sales because when people are confident about their financial situation and have enough money to spend then they tend to buy cars and motorcycles (motorcycles are particularly popular among Indonesia's huge middle to lower-middle class segment). Meanwhile, cement sales inform about property and infrastructure development. Property development is also closely related to purchasing power and consumer confidence because property development grows when people's demand for property rises.

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  • Fast Food Indonesia: Volatile Stock Performance in 2016

    When on 11 March 2016 an Indonesian man died while participating in a chicken eating contest organized by O2 Accion in outlets of fast-food company Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Indonesia, shares of Fast Food Indonesia came under pressure. Fast Food Indonesia, the franchise holder of the KFC brand in Indonesia, is one of the nation's leading fast food companies and operates the popular KFC chain in Southeast Asia's largest economy. However, in the first week of April shares of Fast Food Indonesia soared significantly on the back of better-than-expected revenue.

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