BKK_BUS_SUP_Mar19

SIZZLER OFFERS
DELIVERY SERVICE
SLRT Ltd., the operator of the famous Sizzler
restaurants has started a delivery service. The
move came as the company saw significant growth
in takeaway orders in the last couple of years.
The service will be available from 25 Sizzler
restaurants in Bangkok and other cities. Customers
can order from 10am to 9pm every day by calling
1112 or by using the Sizzler website or App.
The company’s assistant vice-president,
Nongchanok Stananonth, was quoted as saying,
“Sizzler delivery service is a Thai initiative,” adding,
“We won approval to launch the service here
because Thailand has the highest number of Sizzler
restaurants and the highest growth in Asia.
Thailand has a proper demographic and trade
zone, and delivery service has become a trend.”
To start with, a compact menu featuring ten of
Sizzler’s favorite dishes will be on offer including
Grilled Chicken, Pork Loin and BBQ Spare Ribs.
Ms. Nongchanok was also quoted as saying,
“We are riding the delivery wave to service our
regular customers, who have many food choices
in the market both in steaks and other kinds of
food,” adding, “We also want to lure new customers
who have never tried Sizzler.”
The company expects delivery orders to represent
15% of total sales with up to 30 orders per
day per branch.
BUSINESS SUPPLEMENT
THAILAND BUSINESS NEWS
CYBER SECURITY IN THE AUTO
INDUSTRY GETS ATTENTION.
According to a rteport by SAE International
and Synopsys Inc., 84% of professionals in the
automotive industry are anxious that their companies’
cyber security policies are not addressing
the swift pace of technological change.
More worryingly is that 30% of companies reportedly
don’t even have a dedicated cyber security
team in place. It is not surprising then that
cyber security in the auto industry is increasingly
in focus.
The director of ground vehicle standards with
SAE International, Jack Pokrzywa, was quoted as
saying, “SAE members have sought to address
cyber security challenges in the automotive systems
development life cycle for the last decade
and worked together to publish SAE J3061, the
world’s first automotive cyber security standard,”
adding, “Armed with the findings of the study, SAE
stands ready to convene the industry and lead development
of targeted security controls, technical
training, standards, and best practices to improve
the security, and thus the safety, of modern vehicles.”
Other statistics from the report showed that
62% of participants said they didn’t have the cyber
security skills needed during product development.
Co-general manager of the Synopsys Software
Integrity Group, Andreas Kuehlmann, was quoted
as saying, “This study underscores the need for a
fundamental shift -- one that addresses cyber security
holistically across the systems development
life cycle and throughout the automotive supply
chain.”
JUST THE STATISTICS
DEVELOPER AP TO LAUNCH
39 NEW PROJECTS
Well-known residential developer AP (Thailand)
Plc. announced that it will launch 39 new
projects this year. Most of the new developments
will be low-rise comprising of town houses and detached
houses. These are quicker to build and are
more in demand, even though a significantly larger
amount of land is required. The 39 projects in total
are expected to be worth 56.8 billion baht.
Chief executive Anuphong Assavabhokhin was
quoted as saying, “The property market remains
reliant on the domestic economy,” adding, “But
with many risks such as local politics, the global
economy and new lending curbs, we should be
more cautious.”
The low rise projects will make up around two
thirds of the new offerings with the remainder coming
from four strategically located condo projects
including Aspire Asoke, Rhythm Ekamai Estate
and Aspire Sukhumvit-On Nut.
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While bar charts, line graphs and
simple numbers are hardly capable of
providing the defining answer to many
economic, social and political questions,
they are certainly a good way
of obtaining a general overview of any
particular subject.
Each month the Business Supplement
will look into a brace of statistical
information and provide readers with
what we consider to be the central elements
of these figures.
Air pollution in Bangkok is bad, but
far from the worst
Bangkok came in with an AQI rating
of 147 which is classified as being
unhealthy for sensitive groups, which
would include young children and the
elderly.
The only other city in Southeast
Asia to register a top 20 spot was the
Vietnamese capital Hanoi, rating 19th
ies in the top 20, the worst being Shanghai,
at seventh place overall with an AQI
reading of 189, which earns it a classification
of being generally unhealthy.
India had only two cities in the top
20, with Kolkata the worst with a reading
of 209 and Mumbai on 177. South Korea’s
cities of Seoul (AQI reading 171),
Busan (167) and Incheon (156) ranked
11th, 13th and 14th respectively.
Thai Lion Air the fastest growing
airline in the world
According to a company called Air
Visual, Thailand’s capital city ranked
as the 17th most polluted in terms
of the US Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Air Quality Index (AQI).
The air quality rankings were all taken
on the same day (15 January 2019)
and in cities with a population of one
million people or more and have a
range of zero to 500 points.
with a score of 138.
Perhaps surprisingly, the Mongolian
capital Ulaanbaatar ranked the
worst in the world with an AQI reading
of 304, which is classified as hazardous
to health. In second place was
Lahore in Pakistan
with a reading of 271, which rates as
very unhealthy. Third on the worst list
was Kabul, with Afghanistan’s capital
AQI rating of 262, again in the very unhealthy
range (apart from the obvious
dangers of being blown up by suicide
bombers).
No surprises that China had four cit-
Routesonline.com, a UK-based
aviation network development company,
released figures which showed
that Thai Lion Air, the Thai affiliate of
the Indonesian carrier, was the fastest
growing airline in the world in 2018,
expanding by a massive 40.7 percent
over 2017 to transport 13,577,267
people.
VietJet Air ranked second with
20,641,372 passengers in 2018, an
increase of 27.1 percent on the previous
year.
Six of the 10 fastest growing airlines
are Asian based and include
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