Article: Bata to expand `footprint' in Malaysia

Zuraimi Abdullah
New Straits Times
09-01-2009
Bata to expand `footprint' in Malaysia
Byline: Zuraimi Abdullah
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Business Times
Type: Company

SONJA Bata, the matriarch of Bata Shoes, says the Switzerland- based shoemaker wants to expand its business in Malaysia by opening more retail outlets.

But setting up a new production site will unlikely be featured in the expansion plans, the 82-year-old mother of four added.
Bata, which dotted its presence in Malaysia in the early 1930s, currently operates more than 220 stores nationwide and Sonja Bata wants to increase the retail chain to better serve the growing market.

"We want to enlarge our retail business not just ...

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