SMEs

More companies intensifying overseas expansion efforts after ‘better-than-expected’ 2025: panel

Singapore SMEs should also look into making sustainability a core part of their strategy as it helps with saving costs

Cindy Karim charts a new path for the Karim family, building businesses that speak to her generation’s ambitions.
CHRISTMAS REFLECTIONS

Cindy Karim: Redefining a billion-dollar Indonesian family empire

The Karim family’s eldest child is shaping its next chapter through culture and hospitality

The recommendations are derived from SCCCI’s Annual Business Survey 2025, which polled more than 700 senior representatives.

SCCCI proposes five Budget 2026 measures, including help for SMEs with costs and competitiveness

Rising expenses, manpower shortages and transformation needs top list of business challenges

Fong emphasises that she is not the boss – the company is still owned by her aunts – even if, as chief operating officer, she has spearheaded several initiatives to modernise the family business.

Appeal to the young, don’t intimidate the old: Tong Heng’s fourth-gen heir on reinventing a 90-year-old bakery

Famous for its diamond-shaped egg tarts, the family business is one of 42 newly recognised SG Heritage Businesses

Many professionals still perceive AI as a foggy frontier filled with uncertainty, despite hearing of inspiring examples.
THE BROAD VIEW

Overcoming AI scepticism: The case for a Darwinian strategy

To drive real business value, SMEs must learn fast, scale quickly and let the fittest ideas win

From left: Phua Yung Keat, SMRT's group chief financial officer; Ngien Hoon Ping, SMRT's group chief executive; Seah Moon Ming, SMRT chairman; Wee Ee Cheong, UOB CEO;  Frederick Chin, UOB's head of group wholesale banking and markets; Edmund Leong, UOB's head of group corporate banking and group investment banking
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SMRT-UOB partnership lets retail tenants convert rental deposits into bank guarantees

Stellar Lifestyle, SMRT’s business arm, manages about 800 retail spaces across the rail network

 This year’s Enterprise 50 winners illustrate that success requires strategic foresight and the willingness to take calculated risks.

Thinking big: E50 winners pursue growth amid economic storms

This year’s winners demonstrate how Singapore’s small to mid-sized companies are staying competitive by seeking new markets, customers and strategic capital to fuel expansion

Pollisum's chief executive Chris Ang is the founder’s son, but had to earn his stripes – and the employees’ respect.
ENTERPRISE 50 AWARDS

Ambition lifts Pollisum to new heights – and perhaps even new shores

The group’s focus is on growing market share in Singapore and wooing strategic investors before venturing overseas

The most successful SMEs embed technology such as AI, data and automation into their core business strategies in practical and targeted ways.

Smart moves in uncertain times: the innovation blueprint

In a world fraught with risk, what does good innovation look like for Singapore’s enterprises?

The company's ethos is to never turn away business, said Chua, who took over the reins from his father in his final year of university.

How home-grown Delta Tech’s second-gen leader built its legacy as a firm that delivers

The winning formula is to never turn away business says general manager Chua Yong Hin