Sin Chew interviews Lee Thiam Wah, founder of 99 Speedmart. Full story (in Chinese) here...
http://sinchew.com.my/node/1687279/%E7%A8%...%AB%98%E5%B3%B0

Excerpt:
- 99 Speedmart celebrates its 30th anniversary.
- It opened its 1,000th store last August.
- It has outlets in Selangor, KL, N. Sembilan, Melaka, Johor, Perak, Pahang & Sabah.
- The founder is eyeing the next 1,00 stores within 5 years, with an average of 4 new stores every week
- It reported a revenue of RM3 bil in 2016; the projected revenue for this year is RM3.5 bil.
- Currently, it has no plan to go public

The 1,000th outlet in Shah Alam

The outlet near my place, the staff's BM accent is different. Possibly East Malaysians.

Some shops are better than the others.
Near my place there is one outlet which occupies two shoplots. Quite spacious.

This post has been edited by river.sand: Oct 2 2017, 10:16 AM