The report also offers key insights, industry analysis, recommendations and best practices that organizations can leverage to scale up readiness and response in the face of business uncertainty in 2020 and beyond. To achieve business resiliency, top priorities for businesses include: 1) De-risking and diversifying supply chains, 2) Rebalancing market interdependencies, 3) Restructuring business operations to reduce costs and 4) Mitigating operational risk exposures through outsourcing and offshoring.
Lennard Yong, Tricor Group CEO, said: “As business leaders, we cannot always control the situation, but we can control how we react to it, particularly when it comes to dealing with disruptions to operations. Since January, Tricor has received an increasing number of inquiries from organizations looking to circumvent the challenges posed by COVID-19 and cut the cost of daily operations, especially in mainland China and Hong Kong SAR. Our teams, led by
Tricor Mainland China CEO Hailiang Zhang and
Tricor Hong Kong Joe Wan, are dedicated to helping clients face the evolving business environment with confidence – and thrive in the face of uncertainty.”
Gary Tok, Tricor Group CCO said: “Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, organizations in Asia Pacific are focusing on becoming more resilient by restructuring, diversifying and automating operations. Tricor ace, our shared services centre, streamlines back-end operations for our clients, including payroll, invoice management and HR administration. This allows our clients to quickly set up, expand and seamlessly scale new markets at unprecedented rates Furthermore, Tricor recently signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire the Malaysia operations of Axcelasia Inc. (a SGX listed company), which strategically equips us with a full suite governance, risk & compliance (GRC) solutions to help clients future-proof their operations.”
Sunshine Farzan, Tricor Group, Group Head of Marketing & Communications said: "Businesses face a challenging start to the new decade and are now anticipating a few more difficult months ahead. Tricor’s COVID-19 Barometer Research conducted in mid-February 2020 shows that sentiments of concern COVID-19 are most acute in the technology, hospitality and travel, professional services, consumer goods and manufacturing sector – and amongst small and mid-sized organizations. By highlighting these challenges and prescribing possible solutions, this report can help executives own business continuity strategies and achieve resilience.”
About Tricor GroupTricor Group (Tricor) is the leading business expansion specialist in Asia, with global knowledge and local expertise in business, corporate, investor, human resources & payroll, and corporate trust & debt services. Tricor provides the building blocks for, and catalyzes every stage of clients’ business growth, from incorporation to IPO. Tricor has had a rapid expansion through organic growth and development as well as partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. The Group today has over 50,000 clients globally (including 20,000 clients in mainland China), a staff strength of over 2,600 and a network of offices in 47 cities across 21 countries / territories. Our client portfolio includes over 1,500 companies listed in Hong Kong SAR and China, ~500 companies listed in Singapore and Malaysia, and more than 40% of the Fortune Global 500 companies, as well as a significant share of multinationals and private enterprises operating across international markets. In March 2017, the Permira Funds became the controlling shareholder of the Tricor Group, alongside management.
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