A tale of two car companies

Recently, the 2 companies that are involved in the sale & distribution of our 2 national cars i.e. Proton & Perodua have reported their results for the QE 30/6/2006. As you may know, EON is the super dealer of Proton passenger cars while MBM is largest dealer of Perodua passenger cars. The difference in the financial results speaks volume about how far the fortune of the Proton marquee has fallen. See for yourself.










Table 1: EON's QE 30/6/2006 results











Table 2: MBM's QE 30/6/2006 results


In this week's issue of the Edge, it was noted that for the month of July, the number of Proton car registered with the RTD was "just over 10,000 units" while the number of Perodua cars registered was "just 13,800". If that looks bad for Proton, you may be even more surprise to learn that July was suppose to be a good month for Proton because the July number represents a 20%-improvement over the June number while for Perodua, the July month was its second worst month for this year.