 Sime
Plantations Sdn Bhd is one of the core
business units in Sime Darby Berhad. Sime major business
activities comprise Plantations, Commodity Trading,
Refining and Food Business with operations in Malaysia,
Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.
Sime Darby Berhad as Malaysia’s multi-national conglomerate has 280 over companies employing about 26,000 people in 20 countries. Its core
business areas include :
Sime Darby’s gross revenue and profit before tax for financial year ending 30th June 2001 were RM 11,959.9million and 1,130.5 million respectively. The contribution from the Plantations Division to the Group’s pre-tax profit was 6.6% but this is not a realistic indication of the contribution from plantation operations because the Division’s diverse business activities. Besides plantations, the Division is involved in commodity trading, aeroponics, edible oil refining, property development, medical services and hotel ownership. Sime Darby’s interest in plantations dates back to 1910 when its founders, William Sime and Henry Darby established a 17 ha rubber estate in Melaka. As of June 2001, the Group has 81,540 hectares planted with oil palm, including 8,322 hectares in Kalimantan, Indonesia. It also has 2,531 hectares are under rubber. Total FFB production from its own plantations was 1,477,202 tones in FY 2001. Sime Darby is involved in many aspects of the palm oil supply chain including production of planting materials, plantation and oil mills operations, refining of palm oil and production and distribution of edible oils and fats. Its oil refining operations and production of edible oils are done by subsidiary companies, Kempas Edible Oil Sdn Bhd in Malaysia, Sime Darby Edible Products Ltd. in Singapore and Morakot Industries Public Company Ltd. in Thailand. Through a joint venture company, the Group has palm oil refinery operations in Egypt. Sime Darby is one the three Malaysian companies that have been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. A recent assessment by Dow Jones Sustainability Asset Management (Sime Darby Group News Vol1/2002) gave a good overall rating of Sime Darby’s sustainability performance. The Group had a higher rating than the average performance for the industrial services sector on a global basis in all triple bottom line indicators assessed. Performance scores exceeding 50% were recorded for corporate governance, compliance systems and intellectual capital management under the economic bottom line, industry specific criteria for environmental performance and social policies and employee relations under the social bottom line. Lowest performance scores were recorded for eco-efficiency and stakeholder engagement. Sime
Plantations Sdn Bhd |
Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK) is a Malaysian multinational
company involved in plantation, manufacturing, retailing
and property development. Plantation remains KLK's core business.
The Group also expanded downstream
into resource-based manufacturing, in particular oleochemicals, cocoa processing and rubber processing.
Hap Seng Consolidated Berhad is a
public-listed company listed in the main board of the
Bursa Saham Malaysia with an annual turnover of RM1.2
billion in 2005. The Group’s principal activities are
the ownership and operation of oil palm plantations;
manufacturing and trading of agricultural fertilizers,
agro-chemicals, building materials and general
plantation supplies; trading in heavy equipment, motor
vehicles and spares, servicing of heavy equipment and
motor vehicles, and investment holding; fabrication and
sales of commercial trailers and tankers; leasing, hire
purchase financing and licensed money lending, and
packing, marketing and wholesale trading of edible oils
and food. In 2005, trading accounted for 76% of its
revenues while plantation and processing, 24%. 
Intercontinental Specialty Fats Sdn Bhd
(ISF) was incorporated in 1980 as a specialty
oils & fats manufacturer, with a paid-up capital of
RM85.86 million. Our main business is the production and
marketing of specialty fats to chocolate, confectionary,
bakery, snack food & ice cream industries. We choose
to position ourselves as a partner rather than a
supplier, to our Clients whose operations are sited in
every continent of the world. Being international in
scope, ISF’s business activities include commercial
& technical advisory services to Clients, with their
varied requirements according to the unique environment
they operate within. Besides providing our Clients with
Market Oil Price Trends information, we also provide
Research & Development and Product Application
services to Clients, to help them stay ahead of the
competition.
