You are a leading Japanese food distributor looking for expansion opportunities outside your home market, especially in the ASEAN region. Which are the top two countries in ASEAN that are most attractive for you to invest into, and what are the reason?

Please present your arguments leading to your overall recommendation in no more than $5$ slides in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Reference

You may consider the following analysis areas within your $5$ slides but are not limited to:

$$ Microeconomic outlook

$$ Market Size$/$Size of opportunity, key segments, and outlook $($global$,$ regional, country$)$

$$ Industry trends and drivers of growth, competition

$$ Business environment e$.$g$.,$ ease of entry, policy$/$regulatory$,$ foreign investment etc.

Note

Please refrain from copying and pasting graphs, charts and figures from secondary sources, reports, or websites. Please work on this assignment as if you will be presenting this to a client representing YAMADA Consulting Group.

For interviewers $$ Typical grading criteria

$$ Use of charts, graphs $(20\%)$

$$ Research, use of data and sources $(20\%)$

$$ Analysis and reasoning $(20\%)$

$$ Overall format, visualization, and presentation of information $(20\%)$

$$ Storyboarding $($arrangement & flow of content$)(20\%)$