Malaysia: Manufacturing sales rise to RM60.5b in April

• Jun 09, 2017

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s April 2017 manufacturing sales posted a strong growth of 15.6%, rising to RM60.5 billion compared with RM52.3 billion a year ago.
In a statement on Friday, the statistics department said the significant increase in sales value year-on-year in April 2017 was due to the increase in electrical and electronics products (17.3%), petroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic products (18.2%) and non-metallic mineral products, basic metal and fabricated metal (12.3%).
These three sub-sectors contributed 80.1% to the sales value of the manufacturing sector.
Total employees engaged in the manufacturing sector in April 2017 was 1,047,310 persons, an increase of 2.6% or 26,346 people compared with 1,020,964 people in April 2016.

Salaries and wages paid in April 2017 increased by 10.5% or RM330.2 million to RM3.472 billion.
Sales value per employee increased by 12.7% year-on-year to RM57,757. – Bernama

Source: http://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2017/06/09/manufacturing-sales-rise-to-rm60b-in-april/#w8pI5uvOfPiw9hgy.99