STARTING out as a government-linked company in 1968 with the assistance of the United Nations, local boot and leather goods manufacturer Kulitkraf Sdn Bhd has come a long way, despite financial crises and the ever-increasing price of the raw materials it uses.
The company’s managing director Mustafa Pawan, recalls joining Kulitkraf as a costing assistant, rising to become as one of its sales executives, and eventually participating in a management-led buyout of the company during the wave of privatisations in the 1990s.