There is some risk, though, that Top Glove is overestimating what the market needs.
That's because Top Glove, which he founded in 1991, is expanding at breakneck speed.
But in those businesses Top Glove doesn't have the same edge, namely, proximity to rubber plantations.
Lim is unfazed as Top Glove steams ahead, adding new lines just about every week.
Top Glove makes its own equipment and stacks the machinery high in its factories to maximize square footage.
Top Glove, which gets 80% of its sales from latex gloves, has diversified into nitrile rubber and vinyl.
Of course, the reason most buy Top Glove is its low price, which Lim keeps trying to drive down.
And so rather than take a wait-and-see approach, Top Glove steams ahead, adding new lines just about every week.
Like most entrepreneurs, Top Glove's Lim Wee Chai readily hands out his business cards to customers, suppliers and investors.
One U.S. distributor says it has cut back its Top Glove orders in recent years because of quality concerns.
One U.S. distributor says it has significantly cut back its Top Glove orders in recent years because of quality concerns.
Top Glove survived, listing on the Kuala Lumpur Exchange in 2001, around the time the glove market was picking up.
There are worries, though, that Top Glove has stretched itself too far.
Top Glove survived and emerged strong enough to list on the Kuala Lumpur Exchange in 2001, around the time the glove market was picking up.
Top Glove has signed up 700 customers, none of which represents more than 5% of sales, in 170 markets as far-flung as Swaziland, Paraguay, Slovenia and Egypt.
The reason most buy Top Glove is its low price, but he's had to raise those prices four times in 18 months because of dramatically rising latex prices.
Top Glove may make a commodity, but it markets to at least 20 trade shows a year, in Brazil, Germany and even Africa, and follows up with sales visits.
He boldly predicts that Top Glove will produce 30 billion gloves within 14 months, which numbers (based on data from the Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers' Association) say would amount to 25% of worldwide demand.
Top Glove, which gets 80% of its sales from latex gloves, has been smart enough to diversify and, like its U.S. rivals, is making nitrile gloves, using a nonallergenic synthetic product, but in doing so it loses an edge: its proximity to its Malaysia's rubber plantations.
Pairing is simple enough for anyone who's done the process on a more traditional headset -- the button is built into the top of the glove, along with a button to end the call.
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"My sense was that the ball was resting on the ground and his glove was around the top of the ball, " Kellogg said.
The main reason for that is the glove-friendly sliding record button on top that lets you quickly feel whether you're recording, even when camera is stuck to the side of your head.
Buffalo took the lead 3:29 into the second period when Vanek won a battle for the puck along the boards and sent a cross-ice pass to Flynn, who fired a slap shot from the top of the right circle over Nabokov's glove.
Deer Valley, UT Luxurious Deer Valley has long been famous as the top choice for deep pocketed visitors looking for the most white glove family ski experience.
Ever since Buenos Aires began its journey from crash-and-burn economy to southern capital of cool, its top hotels have fallen into two camps: grand palaces with white-glove services in the tony Recoleta neighborhood, and informally intimate hotels in edgier Palermo.
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