Formerly known as National SMI Consultative Center (NASMIC)

When YB Dato’ Chua Jui Meng was the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1990, he was very impressed by the high number of SMIs and SMEs in Malaysia and their efforts to thrive and grow. He was sympathetic to the problems that they faced, such as lack of access to information, difficulty in obtaining loans and financial assistance, non-exposure to good management practices and low IT utilization to improve productivity, among others.