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Klinikar.com Aims to be Biggest Car Care Platform in South-East Asia
The Covid-19 pan- demic has had a ma- jor impact on the tyre industry across Malaysia, but one sector of the mar- ket which has undoubtedly is the area of online retail- ing. With people stuck at home under lockdown the public has started to look for alternative shopping chan- nels. We recently spoke
with Wayne Yu, the founder of online retailer Klinikar.com about the growth of his business and found a young entrepreneur who has man- aged to grow substantially over the past year and a half.
“In 2019 we realised that Malaysian consumers were being very slow on the uptake of digital services like ours,” said Yu, speaking during an series, Tyreman Talks. “However, in the last one and a half years we have experienced ex- ceptional growth of at least 200 per cent, and
David Wilson, the Publisher of The Tyreman
Wayne Yu, the Founder of online retailer Klinikar.com
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