GRANTS

Export Promotion Grant (under MATRADE)
(The grant has been approved in principle. Proceedures manual is underway)

This fund is expended through:

i.Full grants
The full grant shall be for all costs relating to feasibility studies and project management in targeted sectors where it has been appraised to commercial benefits and other positive returns to Professional Services Providers through branding and a longer-presence.

It shall be largely for government to government involvements; as a government penetration initiate, as well as for cost sharing and co-financing agencies such as World Bank, ADB, UNDP and IDB.

ii.Matching grants
Malaysian Professional Services Providers can obtain matching grants or 50 percent of the approved cost of the activities necessary for the biding of Professional Services related projects.

iii.Conditional grants
This type of grant is for financing 50 percent of the Malaysian Professional Services cost related to the preparation and submission of bids in respect of (1) design and build project and privatisation projects. The bidder shall reimburse the government in the event of successful reimbursement.

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Market Development Grant

This is a matching grant to assist SMEs undertake activitities for the development of their export market. Eligible activities are:
- Participation in Trade Missions, Specialised Selling Missions, International trade Fairs and Industry Related International
   Conferences
- Participation in Malaysia Trade Centres Overseas
- Preparation of Promotional Items
- Promotion in Brands Overseas
- Participation in Overseas International Tenders
- Participation in meetings related to negotiation on Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) by representatives of the Trade and   Industry and Professional Services Association
- Setting up sales promotion office overseas to promote exports of Malaysian products and services
- For women owned enterprise, additional eligible activities are:

     -Participation in Malaysia Export Exhibition Centre (MEEC) at MATRADE
     -Participation in local export training seminars / workshop conferences

The claimable expenses are:
- Participation fee
- Economy class airfare for one person
- Women owned enterprise are eligible for two economy class airfare
- Claims for hotel room will be limited to one room not exceeding RM200 per night for local international trade fairs and US$ 200
   per night for overseas fairs, missions and conferences. Women owned enterprise are eligible for 2 hotel rooms
- Rental of standard booth
- Rental of exhibits/samples and promotional materials
- Construction of standard booth
- Standard advertisement in trade fair publication

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Brand Promotion Grant

The objective of the grant is to develop and promote brand names owned by companies for services originating from Malaysia to the international market. The approval may be given to companies based on among others the following considerations:

For 100% reimbursable grant services, companies/ business unit must have:
1.a sales turnover of not exceeding RM5 million or full time employees not exceeding 50
2.services already exported with at least 20% of sales from export OR has export potential ( a full investigation is requirde for the latter)
3.a full business plan

For other types of brand promotion grants and other details, visit www.matrade.gov.my

- Branding Strategy and Plan
- Business and Marketing Plan
- Resources invested by the company on branding and its commitment to the branding programme
- Activities undertaken to promote brand
- Trend in overall sales and exports over the past 3 years
- Market share both local and overseas markets
- Potential for the brand to further expand in the international market
- How the brand will help project Malaysia’s image as supplier of quality products and services

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