Myanmar chairmanship - ASEAN Business Advisory Council

ASEAN-BAC

Myanmar Chapter

ASEAN-BAC

Myanmar Chapter

Zaw Min Win

President, Republic of The Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry

Moe Kyaw

Founder and Chairman, Myanmar Marketing Research and Development Co., Ltd.

Thaung Tin

Vice-President, Republic of The Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry

ASEAN Business Advisory Council: ABAC (Myanmar Chapter) was formed in 2003, with the approval of the Myanmar Government. Since then, the successive former Chairman of ASEAN Business Advisory Council (Myanmar) were U Win Aung (2003 ~2015), and then present Chairman U Zaw Min Win from 2016. ASEAN Business Advisory Council (Myanmar) members (a maximum of three members) represent at the ASEAN Business Advisory Council, with the approval of the Ministry of Commerce, comprising of high-level senior executives of the UMFCCI. Each country is represented by, with the one representing the interest of the small and medium-sized enterprises.

The ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) Myanmar Chapter participated in all Council Meetings and Consultations with the ASEAN Economic Ministers and ASEAN Heads of States and Business Summits since ASEAN-BAC (Myanmar) has become a member in 2003. ASEAN – BAC (Myanmar) actively participates at the ASEAN Business Advisory Council to help develop private sector feedback and advice to enhance ASEAN’s efforts towards economic integration — focusing on reviewing and identifying issues regarding the trade and investment facilitation and promoting economic integration. The ASEAN-BAC regularly submits annual recommendations to the ASEAN Leaders and the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM). ASEAN-BAC (Myanmar) focuses on thematic initiatives with ASEAN-BAC lead on the public-private business cooperation within the region, with particular emphasis on ASEAN Regional Food Supply Chains and MSMEs, the main economic driver of the region.

KMD Group of Companies has been successfully delivering solutions for all technology needs of Industries. With the experience of 30+ years, KMD has established itself as one-stop provider for all ICT needs in Myanmar. KMD was started as a training institute and now KMD holds strong presence in IT and Mobile Retail, IT Distribution, Enterprise Software Solutions, and ICT Training.

KMD Institute was founded in 1986, aiming strong support for developing people and the country with Information and Communication Technology through 143 Accredited and Franchise Centers in Myanmar. Our curriculums are designed to give our students the academic knowledge and complementary practical skills to reach their career aspirations. We provide foundation to International Diploma and Bachelor degree level in Business, IT, and Management. We have long and ongoing partnership with well-known International Education Providers, Universities and Industry Leading Certification Providers, in order to bring international standard IT and Business qualifications to Myanmar.

We provide foundation to International Diploma and Bachelor degree level in Business, IT, and Management. We have long and ongoing partnership with well-known International Education Providers, Universities and Industry Leading Certification Providers, in order to bring international standard IT and Business qualifications to Myanmar.

KMD retail sales was setup in 1995, to provide quality and reliable IT products to fulfill local consumers and our KMD alumnus demands. In 2012, we start to offer mobile products and accessories. We have expanded our retail chains and now becomes one of the largest retail chains with 15 Stores in Myanmar as of now.

Established in 1997 with the aim of distributing IT and Peripheral Devices to fulfill local market demands. We have long and lasting dealer relationship with a wide coverage in Myanmar. Distributing a large variety of Authorized IT and Mobile Products under KMD group. We are dedicated to achieve the highest degree of dealers’ satisfaction by offering the best value for products and services.

At KMD, we aim to improve productivity, customer service, workforce efficiency and overall profitability of a business by delivering quality and purposeful technology services and solutions with certified engineers from Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft, etc.

During the 36 Years of KMD establishment, KMD has re-engineered, re-organized, re-systematized all its good resources to form the bigger and better, efficient and effective, capable and accomplished, talented and skillful, reliable and flexible KMD Enterprise Business group, in order to powerfully serve the basic, to mid, to high-end dynamic needs of local small, to medium, to large enterprise business companies, international corporations and companies doing businesses in Myanmar.

And Our IT & Mobile Services division provide onsite installation and after sales services for Mobile and IT products and also supporting enterprise team in implementation and maintenance contracts with strong workforce of 150 engineers and technicians. SoftComm Technology is a division of KMD delivering quality software development and consulting services to businesses and government departments across Myanmar with customization requirements together with our Enterprise Business.

Shwe Taung Nyo Gyi Co., Ltd.
ASEAN Inclusive Business Award 2021 Winner

Shwe Taung Nyo Gyi Co.,Ltd, works with rural villages in Shan State, Kayin State, Yangon and the Mandalay region of Myanmar to grow certified organic agriculture for vegetable, animal feed and free-range chicken farming. The company guarantee the finance,
farming techniques and market to the farmers. The company introduce the “The Family Farm” concept to uplift Myanmar rural economy and the initiative already has thousands of rural families working together with the company in 2021.

The company’s ideology is building inclusive business in rural areas of Myanmar to help empower and lift local communities through the development of a micro business ecosystem. The company believes that through this inclusive business model, social and economic challenges to rural communities can be positively impacted through the development of a micro business ecosystem which will see each and every village producing their own agriculture and livestock products.

The company’s ‘Family Farm’ concept directly addresses the gender gap issues within rural areas where we see a vital need for women and youth to get equal opportunities alongside male farmers. It also addresses the issues of families cohesion in rural areas where we see many families break up in order for the male adult to work abroad. This leaves the remaining family members vulnerable, so ‘Family Farm’ aims to provide a sustainable solution for rural families to stay together.

Throughout every single process, the families and work together, even packaging of their own products. Their products are not only sold to urban city but also to inter-village networks for livestock feed and manure.

In addition, with the intention of further helping out rural farmers, the company set up www.agritrader.asia in cooperation with Advent-Soft Co., Ltd to sell Myanmar’s agricultural products to international market on a long-term contract. The www.agritrader.asia will become Myanmar’s very first Block Chain Agriculture and officially launched at Dubai Expo 2020 on 18 January 2022. Due to the company’s strong commitment on sustainable rural developments, gender equality and youth development, the company was awarded the

United Nations SDG Pioneer 2019 Award: Advancing Local Livelihoods
ASEAN Inclusive Business Award 2021 and
MYEA Inclusive Business Award 2019: Innovation award.

UMFCCI Centennial Celebration

Since the UMFCCI was established since 1919, it held its Centennial Celebration on 22nd November at the Myanmar International Convention Centre II (MICC-II) in Nay Pyi Taw in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the founding of UMFCCI with the light profile attendance by state leaders, Ministers, foreign dignitaries and businessmen.

UMFCCI also works hand in hand with the government for the progress and development of Myanmar under Private Sector Development mechanism in order to develop and promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth and prosperity in Myanmar, to develop a vibrant private sector which drives robust Economic and Social Development in the region at context, Evolve and promote High-level leadership in PSD Policy Formulation, Implementation, Monitoring/Evaluation Mechanisms, and Public/Private dialogue.

UMFCCI closely cooperates with the government in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business survey program in Myanmar since 2014 and continues to cooperate and works hand in hand with relevant ministerial departments towards reforming, changing and developing the economic environment.