1. MALAY JEAN INC.
Chloe Gohr
Lacey Heatherly
Bianca Kohandani
Ashley McCright
Victor Ramirez
Carly Seitz

2. ABOUT MALAYSIA
 Located 9374.86 miles across the Pacific Ocean from the United States
 Malaysia’s current population is over 28,700,00
 The official religion is Islam
 Life expectancy at birth is 73, with the median age of 26 years old as of 2011
 Official language spoken is Bahasa Malaysia, and the secondary languages
spoken are English and Chinese.
 Malaysia is newly industrialized, which puts the nation in between developing
and developed status.

3. POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
 Constitutional monarchy consisting of a Parliament with two
houses headed by a prime minister, sultans, and a king who acts as
chief of state.
 Legislative power is divided between:
• Federal and State legislature:
• A lower house, the House of Representatives, and the upper house, the
Senate.

4. CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
 Malaysia is a multi–ethnic, multicultural, and multilingual society.
• Separate cultural identities.
 Art and music
 1917 National Culture Policy
• Policy made it so that only Malay texts are considered official cultural
documents.
 Strong government control
 Family is important

5. ECONOMIC ENVIORNMENT
 One of the best economic records in Asia
• 2010, the GDP was $414,400 billion
• 29th largest economy in the world
• Government has pushed to increase tourism
• Negative Effects?
 Exports
• oil and gas, rubber and tin, palm oil, crude petroleum and petroleum
products, electronics, textiles, and timber.
 One of the highest standards of living in Southeast Asia
 Major trading partners:
• the United States, Singapore, Japan, and China.

6. LEGAL ENVIRONMENT
 Law based on other jurisdictions
• Federal and State laws
• Written and Unwritten laws
 Criminal Procedure Code and Contracts Act
 Malaysian land law is based on the Australian Torrens system.
 The Federal Constitution provides the supreme law of the land.
• Laws, legislation, courts, and other administrative aspects of the law
• Defines the government and monarch, and their powers, as well as the
rights of the citizens

7. TRADE ENVIRONMENT
 Malaysia growth through international trade.
• Stabilizing trade policy with other countries to create a more liberal and fair global trade
environment
• Trade arrangements such as free trade agreements
• Create quicker and higher levels of liberalization for effective market access between the participating
countries.
• Topic Malaysia needs to address:
• Tariffs and non-tariff measures
• Taxes
• Facilitation and promotion amongst trade, economic expansion, and financing
• Try to increase their efforts of becoming a more developed country with the help of
enhancing the competiveness
• The four bilateral federal trade agreements that
Malaysia has are with Japan, Pakistan, New Zealand,
and Chile.

8. TEXTILE AND APPAREL
INDUSTRY
 Began primarily in the 1970s
 Known for producing and exporting high end products
 Malaysian-produced goods include fibers
• man-made and natural-fiber yarns
• woven cotton and man-made-fiber fabrics
• knitted and crocheted fabrics
• tulles, lace, ribbons, trimmings, and embroidery
• special yarns, textile fabrics, and related products
 Malaysia behind China, India, and Vietnam when it comes to cheap labor
• Still ideal location for U.S., as well as other foreign, companies looking for a highly skilled, educated workforce and a
government supportive of foreign investment.
 The United States stands as the top export destination for Malaysian goods.
 In 2008, the production index of the textiles segment increased by 8.6% to 102.8 from 94.7 in 2007
 While the production of the apparel segment decreased by 9.5% to 102.5 from 113.3
• decline in man-made fiber spinning and the weaving of textiles
• decline due to United States’ economic recession