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2022-09-25

Poor cost management, many already cutting costs left and right and $Grab Holdings(GRAB)$onlyknows how to cut incentives for the very people who drive their business

Grab Sees No Big Layoffs Despite Weak Market

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MurrayBulwer
2022-09-25
MurrayBulwer
Believe me. According to the current trend, it will soon usher in a sharp fall in the share price.
MamieBenson
2022-09-25
MamieBenson
Is it crazy? Why does it do such a thing. I can't understand.
EricVaughan
2022-09-25
EricVaughan
In a word, money is saved in key points. How incomprehensible！

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The hurdle for making a hire has definitely been raised.\" Decade-old Grab, a household name in Southeast Asia, had about 8,800 staff at the end of 2021. Like its rivals, it has benefited from a boom in food services during the Covid-19 pandemic, while ride-hailing suffered.As economies open up, food delivery demand is softening while ride-hailing has yet to fully recover. Tech valuations have also fallen dramatically and inflation, slower growth and rising interest rates have emerged as risks.In recent weeks, Southeast Asia's largest e-commerce firm Shopee cut jobs in various countries and shut some overseas operations after parent Sea reported widening losses and scrapped its annual e-commerce forecast.Hungate, a veteran of the financial services, logistics and food sectors, has spearheaded a push away from low-margin business lines as Grab races to turn profitable.Second-quarter loss narrowed to US$572 million from US$801 million a year earlier. But last month, it cut its gross merchandise volume outlook for the year, blaming a strong dollar and ebbing food delivery demand.Last month, Grab said it was shutting dozens of so-called dark stores - distribution hubs for on-demand groceries and slowing the roll-out of its \"cloud kitchen\" centralised facilities for deliveries.\"The other area where we've really tightened our strategic intent is in financial services where we were growing payments, wallets and non-bank financial lending quite significantly off-platform and on our platform,\" said Hungate.Grab reorganised its fintech unit this year to focus on more lucrative areas and Reuters reported on the exit of some senior executives.Grab is now mainly focusing on selling its lending products and insurance on its platform to merchants and drivers who often repay from their income streams on the platform.\"As we make this shift, the business mix will move towards higher margins,\" said Hungate.Grab-Singtel digital bank to launch savings account offering daily interestGrab’s sales beat estimates, but falls behind GoTo in market valueGrab, which operates in 480 cities in eight countries, has more than five million registered drivers and more than two million merchants on its platform.It caught global attention in 2018 when it acquired Uber's Southeast Asian business after a costly five-year battle.Grab is betting on growing financial services by offering banking and other products with partner Singapore Telecommunications in key markets.It listed on the Nasdaq in December after a record US$40 billion merger with a blank-check company.Hungate said it was \"good timing\" for the company to look again at how it spends money, given the increased scrutiny of finances and the need to respond to shareholders.\"Maybe we were lucky in a sense that the discipline of being a public company came at just the right time,\" he said, adding that Grab's US$7.7 billion cash liquidity meant it was one of the best capitalised industry players in Southeast Asia.Grab's shares have tumbled about 60 per cent this year to give it a market value of US$10.6 billion.Reuters reported last month that Grab's Indonesian rival GoTo was seeking to raise about $1 billion through a convertible bond issue.Hungate said Grab would provide details of its progress towards profitability and other metrics at its first investor day on Tuesday.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":147,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":["GRAB"],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":141,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[{"id":104085131,"commentId":"104085131","gmtCreate":1664121316662,"gmtModify":1664121320352,"authorId":9000000000000463,"author":{"id":9000000000000463,"idStr":"9000000000000463","authorId":9000000000000463,"name":"MurrayBulwer","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b11c256c9adb7debe80fba544b0e6b3d","vip":8,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9911938096,"objectIdStr":"9911938096","type":1,"supId":0,"supIdStr":"0","prevId":0,"prevIdStr":"0","content":"Believe me. 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