SINGAPORE PAINT INDUSTRY
February 1st, 2004
BY MARK ROWEIN tough economic times, an industry has to sell itself harder. It is no surprise, then, that if you glance at the websites of Singapore's leading paint companies, you will see plenty of buzzwords such as "technology", "improvement" and "development".Yet the reality is that Singapore's paint industry has been marooned in the doldrums for the past three years. The downturn in the local economy, brought about in part by SARS and international terrorism, has affected the construction industry, the main outlet for paint manufacturers in ...
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