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BUSINESS LEADERS

The people who run the island's industry.

The leaders behind Singapore's industrial economy — on the record, in their own words.

Every company on this record is a set of decisions someone made. To buy the five-axis machine before the orders justified it. To hold quality when a cheaper pass would have shipped. To keep a yard, a plant, a fleet running through downturns that closed the neighbours. The decisions are visible everywhere in Singapore’s industrial output; the people who made them are rarely heard from directly.

The leaders of the island’s factories, yards, plants and depots have built one of the most consequential industrial economies in the world — and most have never been asked to explain how, in their own words, on the record.

Business Leaders is where they will be. Interview-led films, made on their own floors: the company as they built it, the sector as they read it, the calls they got right and the ones they didn’t. Not profiles written about them — accounts given by them, kept permanently on the record beside the companies they run.

The first films are in production. When they are ready, they will appear here — one leader at a time, at the standard the rest of the record is held to.

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