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It’sAll AboutBabyDiapers
Consobiz Ventures Sdn Bhd
J M Permata Sdn Bhd (JMP) was established in 1984 as a trading company dealing in
everything related to little bundles of joy – babies. Ten years later the company began
to import disposable baby diapers under its subsidiary company Consobiz Ventures
Sdn Bhd, which then set the course for a long path in manufacturing and exporting
disposable baby diapers to more than 18 countries worldwide. Almost 20 years later,
Consobiz Ventures is now an established Malaysian company that specialises in the
manufacture of disposable baby diapers to a vast range of clients from around the globe.
From Trading to Manufacturing – A Diaper Evolution
The storyof disposablediapers began in theWest about 30years ago,whenmost families thatwere frequent
travelers looked for a simplerway tokeep their baby’s bottomclean.Thus, plastic pantswith cottonnapkins
became the first kin of disposable diapers that were available to the mass market.
Withincreasingworkingmothers inMalaysianhouseholds, theneedfordisposablediapers rosedrastically.
As such, JMP saw are a great potential in the seg-
ment and started trading in everything that spoke
“baby”. Among its early trade items include cotton
baby napkins, PVC tie-pants, baby toys and baby
accessories. It was not till the early 1990s that the
company started to import disposablebabydiapers
tomeet the increasing demands of consumers.
As demand continuously increased with the
encouraging response to disposable diapers, JMP
thenstartedtomanufacturedisposablebabydiapers.
Formingajointventurewithalocalcompanydealing
withbabyproducts,itssubsidiaryConsobizVentures
then came into existence to support production.
Soon, from 1 Fammenccanica line, the com-
pany grew and eventually acquired all shares of
Consobiz and consolidated the operations. By
the end of 2007, the company transferred one of
its machines to Tanggerang, Jakarta (Indonesia)
and PT Consobiz Ventures officially began com-