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A1 Grand Prix Team Malaysia thanks sponsors and supporters.

The 2nd season of A1 Grand Prix came to a conclusion at Brands Hatch at the end of April, and as a way of thanking the Teams sponsors and local fans an end of season party was held at the Proton centre of Excellence in Shah Alam.

A1 Team Malaysia’s main sponsor Proton’s Centre of Excellence made for the perfect setting amongst all of the companies latest models on display, including the new offerings from Lotus.

Attended by David Clare, Asia Pacific CEO of A1 GP, as well as the CEO’s of the teams sponsor companies, a full review of season 2, and the teams performance was shown during the dinner.

During the after dinner speech of Dato Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, he mentioned what an excellent platform A1 Grand Prix has been to showcase the product and service excellence of Malaysian companies to a global audience, and that season 3 should see all of the sponsors collaborating to ensure that each and every one maximises the opportunities afforded to them as sponsors of a successful Global Formula motor racing team.

All of the sponsors were presented with a gift as token of appreciation from Team Malaysia, and an opportunity for sponsors staff and A1 Team Malaysia fans to meet with the various members of the team.

TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE

Every now and again, major companies through statements and actions show their true colours.

Kevin Myer of the ‘lean’ manufacturing blog: Evolving Excellence, identified a couple of articles on page 14 of May 14th’s issue of Rubber News (I’m not going to question his reading habits and I’m sure his wife understands. Apologies Kevin if you’re not married, and perhaps if you’re not, your reading habits may have something to do with that)

The first being General Motors (GM) looking for potential suppliers, and the second on how Honda and Toyota prefer to work ‘with’ their suppliers.

The GM story begins with,

“General Motors’ global expansion will require better suppliers”, according to Bo Andersson, the auto maker’s purchasing chief. The Indian, Chinese, Russian and other markets opening up to GM, he said, will pay off for suppliers who achieve better collaboration with the auto maker. Read the rest of this entry »

Janspeed Example

I’m writing this, the first real blog on the Metagrobolize blogsite, on a flight back from a business trip to see some of Catenate’s UK customers.

It was from one such visit to a high performance automotive engineering and component manufacturer that it really struck a chord on how outsourcing can be highly complimentary to SME companies operating in ‘niche’ market sectors if outsourcing is embraced and ‘bought into’ by the management team. Read the rest of this entry »