Industrial output to report a solid 23.8% for March 2011

It will further reinforce the point about a positive output gap in Singapore. said DBS.

According to their report, despite a high base in the same period last year, industrial production growth is still expected.

In fact, according to DBS's analysts, latest advance GDP estimates for 1Q 2011 show that the manufacturing sector is expected to post a healthy expansion of 13.9% Y-o-Y. Given a fairly modest industrial output growth of about 8% between January - February 2011, output growth in March will surely be significantly stronger to deliver that average quarterly growth number.

Further to DBS's report, a strong pickup in electronics output is expected while a ramp up in pharmaceutical production cannot be discounted. DBS reckons February probably marks the bottom of the electronics cycle.

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia