MALAYSIA’S PAINT SECTOR BECOMES MORE INNOVATIVE AND GREEN AS HOME SALES GROW
May 1st, 2018
TAKING tips online, Malaysians are increasingly adopting a DIY stance for comparatively simple home maintenance tasks such as painting walls – a trend that has led the country’s home paint sales to surge - notwithstanding weak economic conditions, experts say.
Indeed, an economic softening in 2016 partly led consumers to opt for DIY so that they can cut the cost of hiring professionals to paint walls, an analyst from London-based market intelligence company Euromonitor International said. According to World Bank data, Malaysia’s economic growth slowed to ...
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