from 3.3 percent in 2016 on the back of rising exports and a robust tourism sector, consistent with a stronger recovery in global demand. Headline inflation rose to 0.7 percent, following higher energy

investment in overseas business could entail some financial risk upon the Company and its subsidiaries during the initial phase, however, the Group believes that these are strategic investments in our long

percent increase from last year, due to rising interest income as loan growth accelerated. However, loan impairment charges set aside for credit losses in compliance with IFRS9, which will be effective in

30.8 percent increase from last year, due to the recognition of special profits from the sale of investments. At the end of 2019, loan growth in the Thai commercial banking system decreased to 2.0

goods was directly due to the impact of an increase in global raw material prices, mainly copper. The price of copper resulted in the price of copper foil and copper anode rising from that in 2017, which

Bt22,636mn, improved 1.0% YoY from core services revenue growth combined with cost optimization to soften the rising utility cost impact. However, EBITDA soften -1.1% QoQ due to the high seasonality effect of

. The Company has drawdown loan for acquisition of subsidiary shares in 2Q’18 causing rising debt level at the end of December 2018 and subsequently paid down loan from its operating cash flow and

deteriorate from 36% to 32% of revenue. This was not only attributed to the decrease of SW revenue but also from the rising cost of SW patients. Number of insurers increased and consequently more visits of SW

cushion the impact to some degree. Private investment is also projected to contract in line with the slowdown in economic activity. Public spending on investments are expected to be fall as government

) Comprises of gain on sale of investments, sale of investment in subsidiaries and sale of assets. (2) EBIT, EBIT margins, EBITDA, EBITDA margins, EBITDAR or EBITDAR margins are not standard measures, nor