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VANITYSHACK MAGAZINE
VANITYSHACK MAGAZINE
CULTIVATING SMART
FINANCIAL HABITS WITH
ALLIANCE BANK
café needs, and explore new
collaborations and opportunities in a country where the
number of specialty coffee
drinkers has grown over the
years. Malaysia, especially in
Kuala Lumpur, has also seen
a significant increase in the
number of cafés.
Mr. Victor Leong,
President, Malaysia
Specialty Coffee
Association
The 3-day exhibition
will also be teeming with networking opportunities for the
trade and fun-filled activities
for the public on everything
coffee and tea. There will
also be exclusive workshops,
classes and demonstrations
of the latest technologies,
trends and techniques pertaining to the industry.
The gelato making
classes by Carpigiani Gelato
University and Italian trainer,
Marco Alfero will be of interest
to café owners who seek to
expand their menus in order
to serve a wider range of food
in response to greater competition among cafes and where
differentiation is becoming
a necessity in growth markets. A must-visit segment of
the show will be the booth of
the show’s platinum sponsor,
Arissto.
Café Malaysia will also
serve as the launch pad of
the Café Owners Alliance. The
newly formed alliance has already attracted close to 100
café owners across East and
West Malaysia. One of the key
highlights will be the industry
dialogue and forum held in
conjunction with this launch.
The panel discussion on the
morning of May 8 will be mod-
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Alliance
Bank
launched the AEIOU Financial Comic Strip Challenge
(“AEIOU Challenge”), inviting
children aged between nine
and 12 with a flair for comic
drawing to participate by submitting a 4-panel comic strip
on the theme “Smart Financial
Habits”. Supported by the Ministry of Education, the AEIOU
Challenge aims to engage and
drive home the lessons in financial literacy to children in
primary 4 to 6.
Children participating
in the AEIOU Challenge are required to submit their comic
strips latest by 17 June 2015.
After which, 40 students will
be selected for the preliminary
erated by Kelvin Ngow, Executive Director of Coffex Coffee.
The distinguished panelists
include Thayalan A/L Ramadas from the Compliance and
Industrial Development Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia and Pang Anak Nyukang
from Malaysian Quarantine
and Inspection Services, Ministry of Agriculture and AgroBased Industry Malaysia.
Café Malaysia 2015 will
witness the national launch of
the Malaysian Brewer’s Cup
Championships (MBCC) and
the Malaysian National Latte
Art Championships (MNLAC).
Malaysia’s top baristas will
brew their way to represent
Malaysia at the World Brewer’s Cup Championships 2015
and the World National Latte
Art Championships.
Visitors to the event
will be awed by how the masters brew a perfect cup of
coffee, distinguish a variety
of coffee and decorate their
latte.
challenge and will be asked to
draw a comic strip based on
a sub-theme. The judges will
then shortlist nine students to
compete in a quiz at the final
challenge which will be held
on 28 July 2015.
A nationwide roadshow promoting lessons on financial literacy and the