Preparing for Life After Coke Begins .. Now

In this 2012 interview, F&N CEO Dato' Ng Jui Sia discusses: - The loss of Coke - September 2011 - progress - planning for future; - Whether F&N is in for a “massive restructuring” (as he did for the Malaysian soft drinks business over a 6-year period from 2000 - 2006); - Competition - Coke - spent nearly a billion ringgit to build their own 30-acre plant in Nilai to sell Coke and Sprite on their own; - Strategies: other franchises - expanding soft drinks portfolio; - Marketing - strategy - ad spend - mediums; - Dairies - Malaysia - Update; - Reasons --- continuous revenue decline in past three quarters; - Raw materials costs rising - hedging - outlook - issues; - Pulau Indah plant -- scheduled for commissioning 2H 2012 - whether on track; - Implications: production, earnings, staffing; - Green attributes - whether translation to bottom-lines, cost-savings due the water and energy conservation; - Dairies Thailand - floods - timeline - return to pre-flood levels; - Property gain - PJ Section 13 land - launch - GDV; - Financial issues - capital expenditure - dividends - outlook - special dividends.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.